February 1st
1790
The Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, in New York City.
1861
Texas voted to secede from the Union.
1862
Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
1884
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.
1920
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established.
1929
Weightlifter, Charles Rigoulet of France, achieved the first 400 pound ‘clean and jerk’ as he lifted 402-1/2 pounds.
1946
A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
1960
Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.
1968
Vince Lombardi resigned as the coach of the Green Bay Packers.
1968
During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.
1979
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
1982
"Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC.
2003
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
2004
Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
Birthdays
71 Sherman Hemsley Actor ("The Jeffersons")
59 Mike Campbell Rock musician (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
51
stitch Cigar Asylum Inmate
41 Lisa Marie Presley Rock singer, daughter of Elvis Presley
41 Pauly Shore Actor, comedian
39
Aladdin Sane Cigar Asylum Inmate
38 Michael C. Hall Actor
23 Lauren Conrad Reality TV personality ("The Hills")
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FoldEm Cigar Asylum Inmate
47 Thomas Cole 2/1/1801 - 2/11/1848 American painter
59 Clark Gable 2/1/1901 - 11/16/1960 American film actor
76 Boris Yeltsin 2/1/1931 - 4/23/2007 First President of the Russian Federation