01 February History


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  • 1327    -    Edward III is coronated King of England.
  • 1587    -    Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the Warrant of Execution for Mary Queen of Scots.
  • 1633    -    The tobacco laws of Virginia are codified, limiting tobacco production to reduce dependence on a single-crop economy.
  • 1793    -    France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands.
  • 1861    -    A furious Governor Sam Houston storms out of a legislative session upon learning that Texas has voted 167-7 to secede from the Union.
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  • 1902    -    U.S. 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.
  • 1909    -    U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president.
  • 1930    -    A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California..
  • 1942    -    Planes of the U.S. Pacific fleet attack Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
  • 1943    -    American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions at Fais pass in North Africa.
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  • 1944    -    U.S. Army troops invade two Kwajalein Islands in the Pacific.
  • 1945    -    U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March.
  • 1951    -    Third A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada.
  • 1960    -    Four black students stage a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter.
  • 1964    -    President Lyndon B. Johnson rejects Charles de Gaulle's plan for a neutral Vietnam.
  • 1965    -    Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama.
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  • 1968    -    U.S. troops drive the North Vietnamese out of Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon.
  • 1968    -    South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law.
  • 1986    -    Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead.

  • 01 February Birthdays

  • 1552    -    Sir Edward Coke, English jurist who helped the development of English law with his arguments for the supremacy of common law over royal prerogative.
  • 1878    -    Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
  • 1901    -    Clark Gable, American film actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone With the Wind).
  • 1902    -    Langston Hughes, African-American poet
  • 1931    -    Boris Yeltsin, The first president of the Republic of Russia and prime minister of the Russian Federation.