SomeFacts | February 1

On this day - February 1

1327 — The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the ...

1411 — The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic ...

1662 — The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after ...

1713 — The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender results from the Ottoman ...

1793 — French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United ...

1796 — The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.

1814 — Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, ...

1835 — Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.

1861 — American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States and ...

1864 — Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into ...

1865 — President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to ...

1884 — The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary ...

1893 — Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion ...

1895 — Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in ...

1896 — La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), ...

1897 — Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.

1900 — Great Britain, defeated by Boers in key battles, names Lord ...

1908 — Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis ...

1924 — Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years ...

1942 — Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the ...

1942 — Voice of America, the official external radio and television ...

1942 — World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls–Gilberts raids, the ...

1942 — World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of ...

1946 — The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine ...

1946 — Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations ...

1950 — The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.

1957 — Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashes on Rikers Island in New ...

1960 — Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins ...

1964 — The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United ...

1968 — The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad ...

1968 — Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian ...

1968 — Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém ...

1972 — Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the ...

1974 — A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil ...

1979 — Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after ...

1981 — The Underarm bowling incident of 1981 occurred when Trevor ...

1982 — The Intel 80286 is released, which introduced protected mode ...

1991 — A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Hindu Kush region, ...

1991 — A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest ...

1992 — The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren ...

1996 — The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.

1998 — Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female ...

2002 — Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief ...

2003 — Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of ...

2004 — Double suicide attack in Erbil on the offices of Iraqi Kurdish ...

2004 — Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage ...

2005 — King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to ...

2007 — The National Weather Service in the United States switches ...

2009 — The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in ...

2012 — Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a ...

2013 — The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its ...

2021 — A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from ...

2022 — Five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Aourram falls into a 32-meter ...