This Day in History - February 1

February 1
1327 – Edward III is crowned King of England
1552 – English judge, Sir Edward Coke, who helped the development of English law, is born
1587 – Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs an execution warrant for her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots
1633 – In Virginia, the tobacco laws are codified, limiting its production to reduce dependence on a single-crop economy
1781 – American Brigadier General William Lee Davidson dies in combat at Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
1790 – The Supreme Court of the US meets for the first time
1793 – France declares ware on Britain and the Netherlands
1814 – Lord Byron’s “The Corsair” is published
1851 – English author Mary Shelley dies
1861 – Upon learning that Texas has voted to secede from the Union, Governor Sam Houston storms out of a legislative session-Texas became the 7th state to secede from the Union
1862 – Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was published in the Atlantic Monthly
1878 – First woman elected to the US Senate, Hattie Caraway is born
1884 – The Oxford Dictionary is first published
1885 – John Taylor, president of the Mormon Church, goes underground to avoid arrest for polygamy
1887 – Harvey Wilcox officially registers Hollywood with the Los Angeles County recorder’s office
1894 – American director John Ford is born
1896 – Giacomo Puccini’s La boheme premiers in Turin, Italy
1901 – Film actor Clark Gable is born
1902 – Poet Langston Hughes is born
1902 – US Secretary of State John Hay protests Russian privileges in China as a violation of the “open door policy”
1905 – Germany contests French rule in Morocco
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son Luis Filipe are assassinated by revolutionaries in Lisbon
1909 – US troops leave Cuba after Jose Gomez becomes president
1917 – Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare after a hiatus caused by US and other neutral countries
1931 – The first president of the Republic of Russian and prime minister of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, is born
1942 – US Pacific fleet planes attack Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands
1943 – Japanese forces begin to withdraw from the Guadalcanal Island
1943 – American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions at Faid Pass in North Africa
1944 – US Army troops invade two Kwajalein Islands in the Pacific
1945 – US Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March
1946 – At the University of Pennsylvania, a press conference announces the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC
1946 – English actress Elisabeth Sladen is born
1951 – In the Nevada desert, three A-bomb tests are completed
1951 – The UN General Assembly condemns the communist government of the People’s Republic of China for acts of aggression in Korea
1960 – Four black students stage a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, NC lunch counter
1964 – Charles de Gaulle’s plan for a neutral Vietnam is rejected by President Johnson
1964 – Operation Plan 34A goes underway, and South Vietnamese forces under American orders, attack North Vietnamese coastal and island installations
1965 – Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama
1966 – Actor, producer and director Buster Keaton dies
1968 – US troops drive the North Vietnamese out of Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon
1968 – Richard Nixon announces his candidacy for the presidency
1968 – South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law
1968 – Eddie Adams takes one of the most famous pictures of Vietnam, when he captured a Vietcong officer being executed by pistol to the head in Saigon
1970 – NHL goaltender Terry Sawchuk has his 103rd shutout, a NHL record
1974 – Lynda Ann Healy is killed by Ted Bundy. Bundy will eventually confess to 36 murders and will be executed in 1989
1976 – Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg dies
1979 – The Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
1981 – Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt dies
1986 – Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead
2002 – German actress Hildegard Knef dies
2003 – The space shuttle Columbia breaks apart while entering the atmosphere over Texas, killing all seven crew members on board
2004 – The first TV commercial airs for the Ford GT, during the Super Bowl
2004 – Janet Jackson suffers a famous “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl
2009 – Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland’s first female Prime Minister

Written by Crystal McCann
Crystal is the Chief Operating Officer of Lanterns Media Network and the owner of Madisons Media. She lives in Texas with her husband and dogs and is the proud mother of two adult children.
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