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Events
481 – Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1329 – King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders.
1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
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.
1781: American Brigadier General William Lee Davidson died in combat attempting to prevent General Charles Cornwallis' army from crossing the Catawba River in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
1790: In the Royal Exchange Building on New York City's Broad Street, the Supreme Court of the United States met for the first time, with Chief Justice John Jay of New York presiding.
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 – Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 – American Civil War: Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union when a secession convention in Austin votes 166 to 8 in favor of the measure.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1884 – The first volume or fascicle (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), considered the most comprehensive and accurate dictionary of the English language, is published. Today, the OED is the definitive authority on the meaning, pronunciation, and history of over half a million words, past and present.
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1895 – Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
1897 – Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1908 – King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, are assassinated by revolutionaries while riding in an open carriage through the streets of Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon, the Portuguese capital.
1913: The final bids for construction of the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, WA were opened, and the award went to the Brayton Engineering Co. of Portland, OR. The total: $1.1 million. The site was already being excavated.
1917: The lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine raised its head again, as Germany returned to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries.
1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
1924 – The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1942 – Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
1942 – U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1943: Japanese forces on Guadalcanal Island, defeated by Marines, started to withdraw after the Japanese emperor finally gives them permission.
1946 – Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1946 – The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1951: By a vote of 44 to 7, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning the communist government of the People's Republic of China for acts of aggression in Korea. It was the first time since the United Nations formed in 1945 that it had condemned a nation as an aggressor.
1953 – North Sea flood of 1953 (Dutch, Watersnoodramp, literally "flood disaster") was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
1957 – Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany.
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1964 – The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
1964: U.S. and South Vietnamese naval forces initiated Operation Plan (Oplan) 34A, which called for raids by South Vietnamese commandos, operating under American orders, against North Vietnamese coastal and island installations.
1965 – The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War.
1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1974 – A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
1979 – The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government under Khomeini's leadership.
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).
1982 – Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
1989 – The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder.
1990 – Humanitas publishing house is founded in Bucharest, shortly after the Romanian Revolution, by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu.
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.
1993 – Gary Bettman becomes the NHL's first commissioner.
1994 – Punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which would eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2001 – Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.
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 on mission STS-107 disintegrates over Texas 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.
2004 – Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2009 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly LGBT head of government.
2012 – At least 72 people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in the city of Port Said.
2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Candlemas of San José
Brigid, patron saint of Ireland
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Forefeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Martyr Tryphon of Campsada near Apamea in Syria (250)
Martyr Theonas, with Two Children
Martyr Karion
Venerable Peter of Galatia, hermit near Antioch in Syria (c. 403)
Venerable Vendemanius (Bendemanius), hermit of Bithynia (512)
Saint Anthony the Hermit, in Georgia (6th c.)
Great-martyr Elijah of Heliopolis, (Elias the New, of Damascus) (799)
Saints David (784), Symeon (843), and George (844), Confessors of Mytilene
Saint Basil I the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica (862)
Saint Basil II the Synaxaristis, Archbishop of Thessalonica (c. 904)
Saint Timothy the Confessor
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus,
Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas at Carthage (202-203)
Saint Severus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna, attended the Council of Sardica
in 344 (348)
Saint Paul of Trois-Châteaux, Bishop of Trois-Châteaux in the Dauphiné (c. 405)
Venerable Brigid of Kildare (524)
Saint Darlugdach of Kildare, successor of St Brigid as second Abbess of Kildare
in Ireland (c. 524)
Saint Ursus of Aosta, born in Ireland, he preached against Arianism in the south
of France and later went to Aosta in Italy (6th c.)
Saint Seiriol, Abbot of Penmon Priory (Anglesey) (6th c.)
Saint Sigebert III, King of Austrasia (656)
Saint Severus of Avranches, Abbot and Bishop of Avranches (c. 690)
Saint Brigid the Younger, sister of St Andrew the Scot, Abbot of St. Donatus
in Fiesole in Tuscany in Italy (9th c.)
Saint Clarus of Seligenstadt, ascetic and hermit (c. 1048)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov (1468)
New Martyr Anastasius of Nauplion (1655)
The Four Martyrs of Megara: Polyeuctos, George, Adrianos and Platon,
the "Newly-Revealed" (1754, 1998)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Peter Skipetrov, Archpriest, of Petrograd (1918)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Mezentsev, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Mother of God "Sokolsky" (1854)Traditional Western
Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Candlemas of San José
Brigid, patron saint of Ireland
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
February 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
Forefeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple
Saints
Martyr Tryphon of Campsada near Apamea in Syria (250)
Martyr Theonas, with Two Children
Martyr Karion
Venerable Peter of Galatia, hermit near Antioch in Syria (c. 403)
Venerable Vendemanius (Bendemanius), hermit of Bithynia (512)
Saint Anthony the Hermit, in Georgia (6th c.)
Great-martyr Elijah of Heliopolis, (Elias the New, of Damascus) (799)
Saints David (784), Symeon (843), and George (844), Confessors of Mytilene
Saint Basil I the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica (862)
Saint Basil II the Synaxaristis, Archbishop of Thessalonica (c. 904)
Saint Timothy the Confessor
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus,
Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas at Carthage (202-203)
Saint Severus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna, attended the Council of Sardica
in 344 (348)
Saint Paul of Trois-Châteaux, Bishop of Trois-Châteaux in the Dauphiné (c. 405)
Venerable Brigid of Kildare (524)
Saint Darlugdach of Kildare, successor of St Brigid as second Abbess of Kildare
in Ireland (c. 524)
Saint Ursus of Aosta, born in Ireland, he preached against Arianism in the south
of France and later went to Aosta in Italy (6th c.)
Saint Seiriol, Abbot of Penmon Priory (Anglesey) (6th c.)
Saint Sigebert III, King of Austrasia (656)
Saint Severus of Avranches, Abbot and Bishop of Avranches (c. 690)
Saint Brigid the Younger, sister of St Andrew the Scot, Abbot of St. Donatus
in Fiesole in Tuscany in Italy (9th c.)
Saint Clarus of Seligenstadt, ascetic and hermit (c. 1048)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov (1468)
New Martyr Anastasius of Nauplion (1655)
The Four Martyrs of Megara: Polyeuctos, George, Adrianos and Platon,
the "Newly-Revealed" (1754, 1998)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Peter Skipetrov, Archpriest, of Petrograd (1918)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Mezentsev, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Syrian Church
Astina
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