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Old 02-01-2017, 01:20 PM   #535
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February 1

February is Black History Month in the U.S. and Canada, while the United Kingdom celebrates LGBT History Month.

Today is Nat'l Freedom Day in the U.S.

February is also Nat'l Bird Feeding Month in the U.S.

World Hijab Day is observed on this date. So get a hijab ya bum.

There are 333 days remaining in 2017.

There are 326 days until Christmas.


Events

1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.

1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the Union.

1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

1942 – Voice of America (VOA), the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.

1953 – North Sea flood of 1953 was caused by a heavy storm which occurred overnight, 31 January-1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium and the U.K.

1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is filmed and photographed by Eddie Adams.

1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.

1979 – Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.

1981 – The Underarm bowling incident of 1981 occurred when Trevor Chappell bowls underarm on the final delivery of a game between Australia and New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

1991 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.

1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case.

2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.

2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

2004 – Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured.

2009 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurđardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly LGBT head of government.

2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.

Births

1894 – John Ford; 1901 – Frank Buckles (at his death (in 2011) he was the last surviving veteran of WW I); 1901 – Clark Gable; 1902 – Langston Hughes; 1904 – S.J. Perelman; 1909 – George Beverly Shea♪ ♫; 1923 – Ben Weider (well known in two areas: Bodybuilding and Napoleonic history); 1931 – Boris Yeltsin; 1934 – Bob Shane♪ ♫(The Kingston Trio); 1937 – Don Everly♪ ♫(Everly Bros); 1937 – Garrett Morris (President of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing); 1937 – Ray Sawyer♪ ♫(Dr. Hook); 1938 – Jimmy Carl Black(The Mothers Of Invention); 1938 – Sherman Hemsley(The Jeffersons, Amen); 1939 – Del McCoury♪ ♫(The Del McCoury Band); 1939 – Joe Sample; 1942 – Bibi Besch; 1942 – Terry Jones (Monty Python); 1947 – Jessica Savitch; 1948 – Rick James Bitch♪ ♫; 1950 – Mike Campbell(Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers); 1950 – Rich Williams(Kansas); 1951 – Sonny Landreth; 1954 – Chuck Dukowski(Black Flag); 1964 – Jani Lane♪ ♫(Warrant); 1964 – Linus Roache (Law & Order); 1965 – Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee); 1965 – Sherilyn Fenn; 1968 – Lisa Marie Presley; 1968 – Pauly Shore; 1969 – Andrew Breitbart; 1969 – Patrick Wilson(Weezer); 1971 – Michael C. Hall (Dexter); 1971 – Ron Welty(The Offspring); 1986 – Lauren Conrad; 1987 – Ronda Rousey; 1994 – Harry Styles♪ ♫(One Direction)

Deaths

1851 – Mary Shelley; 1940 – Philip Francis Nowlan (created Buck Rogers); 1966 – Hedda Hopper; 1966 – Buster Keaton; 1976 – Werner Heisenberg (physicist and namesake of 'Walter White's' alter ego in Breaking Bad); 1981 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. (of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation); 1988 – Heather O'Rourke ("They're heeeeere."); 2003 – crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia: Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, William C. McCool, Ilan Ramon; 2005 – John Vernon (The Outlaw Josey Wales); 2012 – Don Cornelius (host of Soul Train for 22 years); 2013 – Ed Koch; 2014 – Maximilian Schell
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