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What happened on February 01 Please support our Sponsors - They help us keep this site Alive! 1327 Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. 1411 Peace of Toru 1411 signed in Toru, Poland 1539 Emperor Karel & King François I sign anti-English treaty 1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence 1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates 1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. 1663 The town of Quebec is rocked by an evening earthquake 1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion 1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez 1713 The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized. 1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's first appointment as chancellor of France 1720 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty 1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions 1742 Sardinia & Austria sign alliance 1775 Peasants in Bohemia revolt against servitude. 1780 British Major John Graves Simcoe leads 200 of his Rangers in a foray into New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War 1783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex 1788 First US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet 1788 Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat. 1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long 1790 In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time. 1790 Supreme Court convenes for the first time (New York NY) 1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen 1796 Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York. 1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York. 1799 Royal Assent given to change the name of Ile St. Jean (St. John's Island) to Prince Edward Island. 1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system 1810 First insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance Company of Philadelphia) 1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to the French 1810 US Population - 7,239,881; Black population - 1,377,808 (19%) 1811 UK hist Light first lit on Robert Stephenson's Inchcape (Bell) Rock lighthouse off Scotland 1814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on the day of publication 1814 Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano. 1840 The first U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD. 1851 Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies. 1851 Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein. 1851 Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53. 1854 Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa 1856 Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College. 1858 Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley. 1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands 1861 Texas votes to secede from the Union. 1862 Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly. 1864 2nd German-Danish war begins 1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein 1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) 1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins 1865 JS Rock, first black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days 1870 Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force. 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is first black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates) 1881 US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized 1883 French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger 1884 Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. 1884 First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) 1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite 1893 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan recorded the coldest day on record in Saskatchewan: -56.7 degrees Celsius 1893 Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria (West Orange, New Jersey). 1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds first movie studio (West Orange NJ) 1896 The opera La bohme premieres (Turin). 1897 Shinhan Bank (former CHB), oldest bank in South Korea, opened in Seoul. 1898 First auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company 1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet 1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns 1906 English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured 1906 First federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon. 1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens 1910 Dragoumis government forms in Greece 1910 The first British labour exchange opens 1913 New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station. 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed 1914 Tanganyika Railway opens 1916 SS Empress Queen, stranded in fog off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, where she later broke up. Although there were 1300 troops on board all were got off. 1918 Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb 14) 1918 Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. 1918 The French ship LaDive is torpedoed in the Mediterranean. 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police 1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations. 1920 The first commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN) 1923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel 1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini 1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens 1924 New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR 1924 United Kingdom recognizes USSR. 1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR 1926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch 1929 Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method. 1930 Arnold Schönbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt 1932 Bradman makes 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th 1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname 1933 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions 1933 German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe 1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own 1935 First "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol 1935 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy 1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland 1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier 1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands) 1943 World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers. 1944 First Japanese territory invaded at Kwajalein. 1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy 1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie 1946 Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie is selected as the first secretary-general of the United Nations. 1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president 1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General. 1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats & communists 1947 Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad 1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established 1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed 1949 200" (5.08-meter) Hale telescope first used 1949 RCA releases first single record ever (45 rpm) 1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland 1951 -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record) 1951 Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed 1951 First telecast of atomic explosion 1951 The first X-ray moving picture process demonstrated 1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia 1952 The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) is formed. 1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts 1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television great show for it's time 1953 Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands first female assistant Secretary of state 1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835 1954 First TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres 1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire 1954 Visitor posting - Robert Warren Billewicz born, Lawrence, MA, USA 1955 H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark 1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking 1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany 1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam 1957 The first black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline 1958 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women 1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic 1958 Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961. 1958 US satellite (Explorer I) launched 1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) 1960 4 students stage first civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth 1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender 1960 Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. 1961 A full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful 1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive 1961 Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies 1963 Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club, at age 17. 1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda 1964 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances 1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," first #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks 1964 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity 1964 Suriname River dammed 1965 Churchill River, Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill. 1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam 1965 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news 1965 The Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill 1966 Buster Keaton, famous comic film star, dies at age 69. 1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives 1968 Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head 1968 Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President 1968 Merger of the historic New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation. 1968 Official unification of the three military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, into the Canadian Forces. 1968 The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work 1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war. 1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers 1968 World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi 1969 Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated. 1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die 1970 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract 1971 Canada and China open diplomatic relations; exchange diplomats in both countries, and officially recognize each other's sovereignty 1972 Kuala Lumpur became a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. 1972 The calculator arrives as a scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395) 1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK 1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame 1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV 1974 Joelma Building fire - a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1974 Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory. 1975 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65 1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Pilot - January 1975 Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department 1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV 1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce 1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives 1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl 1978 Harriet Tubman is first black woman honored on a US postage stamp 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile. 1979 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter. 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile. 1979 Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. 1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System 1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run 1981 Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell causes furore when he orders his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to a New Zealand batsman. 1981 Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York NY 1981 Dutch Antilles census is 231,932 1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq 1981 Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous "Underarm Ball" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game. 1982 Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium in Alberta . 1982 David Letterman begins an 11-year run as the host of the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman. 1982 Late Night With David Letterman makes its debut on NBC-TV. 1982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) 1982 Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia. 1983 New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel allyou got to do is PAY 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test 1984 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations 1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) 1985 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record) 1985 -69ºF (-56ºC), Peter's Sink UT (state record) 1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs England) 1986 Dick James, music publisher for the Beatles from 1962-70, dies in London at age 58. 1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland 1987 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends, workers accept wage freeze 1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion 1989 Princess Diana of England visits New York NY 1989 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. 1990 CN Rail commences cabooseless train operations. 1991 35 people die when a USAir jetliner crashes atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport. 1991 Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die 1991 Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs England at the WACA 1991 President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws 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. 1992 Uniondale, New York Denis Potvin's #5 becomes first number retired by the New York Islanders 1993 New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman 1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands 1994 Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, pleads guilty to taking part in an attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. 1994 In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. 1994 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean 1995 Amtrak New York-Tampa run ends 1995 Visitor posting - Gabby Cano was Born on this day. - USA 1995 Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pakistan, brotherly record 1995 Visitor posting - Gabby Cano was born - USA 1995 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air 1996 The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress. 1996 Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index breaks through the symbolic 5,000 mark for the first time, our Dow Jones 1998 "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances 1998 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2) 1998 Australian Mixed Doubles Tennis J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (6-2 6-1) 2000 Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say they have traced the origin of the AIDS virus to around 1930. 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. 2004 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. 2005 Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage. 2005 Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'tat to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers. 2006 Visitor posting - Dutch hero and "childmolester" Jelle de Vries was put into jail for wearing a horse-mask in public, great riots broke out about this and 17 other people were arrested along with the criminal itself. - Netherlands More historical events added daily - keep checking back Add your own Personal Historic listing FREE! - Click Here Return to Daily Calendar Contact us at: info @ datesinhistory.com (remove the spaces) "This site contains links to other Internet sites. 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