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Historical Events

01 Feb 1539
Emperor Karel & King Francois I sign anti-English treaty
01 Feb 1662
Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders to Chinese pirates
01 Feb 1713
The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultans order that his unwelcome guest King Charles XII of Sweden be seized.
01 Feb 1717
Henri dAguesseaus 1st appointment as chancellor of France
01 Feb 1732
Parliament of Ratisborn accepts Pragmatic Sanctions
01 Feb 1788
1st US steamboat patent issued by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
01 Feb 1789
Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
01 Feb 1793
France declares war on Great Britain and Netherlands
01 Feb 1793
Patent granted Ralph Hodgson NY for oiled silk & linen
01 Feb 1796
The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York
01 Feb 1809
Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
01 Feb 1810
1st insurance company managed by African Americans - American Insurance Co of Philadelphia
01 Feb 1810
US Population 7239881 African American population 1377808 (19%)
01 Feb 1814
Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1200
01 Feb 1840
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery 1st in US incorporated
01 Feb 1843
Oldest continuous writer of insurance in America - The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY) opens
01 Feb 1846
Theophile Gautier publishes Hashish Club about his initiation
01 Feb 1856
Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.
01 Feb 1860
1st rabbi to open House of Representatives Morris Raphall of NYC
01 Feb 1861
Texas secedes from the Union (which precipitates the American Civil War)
01 Feb 1862
Julia Howe publishes Battle Hymn of Republic
01 Feb 1864
Austrian and Prussian troops occupy Schleswig-Holstein
01 Feb 1865
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
01 Feb 1865
JS Rock 1st African American lawyer to practise in US Supreme Court admitted to bar
01 Feb 1871
Jefferson Long of Georgia is first African American to make an official speech in US House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
01 Feb 1880
The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
01 Feb 1881
US Assay Office in St Louis Missouri authorized
01 Feb 1883
French Lt-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
01 Feb 1884
1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A-Ant published
01 Feb 1887
Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
01 Feb 1892
Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of 400 to describe socially elite
01 Feb 1896
Giacomo Puccinis Opera La Boheme premieres in Turin
01 Feb 1897
Shinhan Bank the oldest bank in South Korea opens in Seoul.
01 Feb 1898
1st auto insurance policy in US issued by Travelers Insurance Co
01 Feb 1902
Chinas empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding womans feet
01 Feb 1902
Hermann Sudermanns Es lebe das Leben premieres in Berlin
01 Feb 1902
US Secretary of State Hay protests granting Russia exclusive privileges in China on ground that it runs contrary to the open door policy granting all nations equal rights there
01 Feb 1905
Dutch soccer club ADO Den Haag forms in The Hague ADO represents the amateur branch of the club
01 Feb 1905
Hungarian premier Count Istvn Tisza resigns
01 Feb 1906
1st federal penitentiary building completed Leavenworth Kansas
01 Feb 1906
Dorothy Grey wife of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey fatally injured
01 Feb 1908
King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathizers in Terreiro do Paco Lisbon
01 Feb 1909
US Assay Office in Salt Lake City Utah opens
01 Feb 1909
US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president ensuing political instability will bring a threat of US intervention in 1912
01 Feb 1914
Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a 10-inning 3-3 tie in Cairo Egypt in an exhibition baseball game part of special 56-game world tour
01 Feb 1914
Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
01 Feb 1917
German Groadmiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
01 Feb 1918
Franz Lehars opera Wo die Lerche singt premieres in Budapest
01 Feb 1918
Jerome Kern Guy Bolton & P. G. Wodehouses musical premieres in New York
01 Feb 1918
Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar (making the day February 14)
01 Feb 1919
Brooklyn Robins trade former NL MVP Jake Daubert to Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Tommy Griffith result of a salary grievance
01 Feb 1920
1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
01 Feb 1920
Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
01 Feb 1923
Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
01 Feb 1923
Noel Cowards Young Idea premieres in London
01 Feb 1925
1st national conference of KPDs Rotfrontkmpferbund in Berlin
01 Feb 1926
Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
01 Feb 1926
Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record 7 per sq inch
01 Feb 1929
1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg) Charles Rigoulet 402 lbs
01 Feb 1929
Pi Alphha Phi the first Asian-American interest fraternity in the United States is founded at UC Berkeley
01 Feb 1929
The Broadway Melody directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Bessie Love is released. 1st film with sound to win an Oscar (Outstanding Picture 1930)
01 Feb 1930
Arnold Schnbergs opera Von heute auf Morgen premieres in Frankfurt
01 Feb 1933
Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
01 Feb 1933
Dutch bishops forbid membership of non-catholic unions
01 Feb 1933
German Parliament dissolves General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
01 Feb 1934
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
01 Feb 1935
1st March of Time newsreel premieres at the Capitol
01 Feb 1935
James T Farrell finishes his Studs Lonigan trilogy
01 Feb 1937
Stapleton Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
01 Feb 1940
Soviet Union begins new offensive against Finland
01 Feb 1940
NBC performs the first inter-city television broadcast from its station in New York City to another in Schenectady New York by General Electric relay antennas.
01 Feb 1943
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
01 Feb 1951
-50F (-46C) Gavilan New Mexico (state record)
01 Feb 1951
Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
01 Feb 1951
UN condemns Peoples Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
01 Feb 1952
General strike against French colonial rule in Tunisia
01 Feb 1953
General Electric Theater premieres on CBS TV Ronald Reagan later hosts
01 Feb 1953
Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands first female assistant secretary of state
01 Feb 1953
WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
01 Feb 1954
Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
01 Feb 1954
Dutch soccer club De Graafschap The County forms in Doetinchem Netherlands
01 Feb 1954
Australian Championships Womens Tennis In an all-Australian final Thelma Coyne Long beats Jenny Staley 6-3 6-4 for the 2nd of her 2 Australian singles titles
01 Feb 1943
Mussert forms pro-Nazi shadow cabinet in Netherlands
01 Feb 1944
Supreme Soviet increases Soviet republics autonomy
01 Feb 1944
US 7th Infantry4th Marine Division lands on KwajaleinRoiNamur
01 Feb 1946
Republic of Hungary proclaims Zoltn Tildy as its communist president
01 Feb 1946
Trygve Lie a Norwegian socialist becomes 1st Secretary General of the United Nations
01 Feb 1947
Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists
01 Feb 1948
Johnny Palmer sets a 36-hole PGA Tour scoring record with rounds of 62-64 in the Tucson Open finishes runner-up by 1 stroke to Skip Alexander who cards tournament record total 264
01 Feb 1949
200 (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3 1948]
01 Feb 1954
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Mervyn Rose wins his first Grand Slam title beats fellow Australian Rex Hartwig 6-2 0-6 6-4 6-2
01 Feb 1955
Hap Day becomes the first man to serve as Toronto Maple Leafs captain coach and general manager when he is appointed to run the famous Canadian NHL club
01 Feb 1956
Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
01 Feb 1956
WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
01 Feb 1956
Hayes Alan Jenkins leads only US sweep of Olympic mens figure skating medals at the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Games Ronald Robertson wins silver with bronze to Jenkins younger brother David
01 Feb 1957
1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
01 Feb 1957
Felix Wankels first working prototype DKM 54 of the rotary Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
01 Feb 1957
MLB club owners accept new 5-year pension plan proposed by the players but reject request to increase minimum salary from 6000 to 7500
01 Feb 1958
Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
01 Feb 1958
WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
01 Feb 1958
Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu) single released by Domenico Modugno (Grammy Award Record of the Year Song of the Year )
01 Feb 1958
Tommy Taylor scores 2 goals and Duncan Edwards 1 in Manchester Uniteds 5-4 win vs Arsenal at Highbury pair amongst 7 players killed 5 days later when teams charter plane crashes at Munich airport
01 Feb 1959
Swiss men vote against voting rights for women
01 Feb 1959
Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
01 Feb 1959
WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
01 Feb 1959
Outfielder Zack Wheat a Brooklyn Robins favourite of the 1910s and 1920s is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Wheat hits .317 over 19-year career and bats .300 or better 14 times
01 Feb 1960
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in at Woolworths in Greensboro North Carolina
01 Feb 1960
Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
01 Feb 1960
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Margaret Smith wins first of 11 Australian singles titles beats fellow Australian Jan Lehane 7-5 6-2
01 Feb 1961
1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
01 Feb 1961
British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
01 Feb 1961
Australian tail-enders Ken Mackay (62no) and Lindsay Kline (15no) hang on for 100 minutes to earn a famous draw on the final day vs West Indies in 4th cricket Test in Adelaide
01 Feb 1962
New Faces of 62 opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
01 Feb 1963
Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
01 Feb 1964
Stop the World I Want to... closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
01 Feb 1964
The Beatles 1st 1 hit I Want to Hold Your Hand topped the Hot 100 stays 1 for 7 weeks before being replaced by She Loves You
01 Feb 1964
Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban Louie Louie for obscenity
01 Feb 1964
Afobaka Dam is completed on the Suriname River
01 Feb 1965
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
01 Feb 1965
NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
01 Feb 1965
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Australian Margaret Smith wins 6th straight home singles title beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 5-7 6-4 5-2 Bueno retired injured
01 Feb 1965
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Roy Emerson wins 3rd consecutive Australian title beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle 7-9 2-6 6-4 7-5 6-1
01 Feb 1967
Severe bushfires in Tasmania destroy 11 million & take 60 lives
01 Feb 1967
WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
01 Feb 1968
World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
01 Feb 1969
WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh PA (IND) begins broadcasting
01 Feb 1969
In his first start driving a Ford Richard Petty wins the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside CA his previous 92 NASCAR victories were in Plymouths
01 Feb 1970
Former MLB Commissioner Ford Frick and ex-players Earle Combs & Jesse Haines are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
01 Feb 1970
Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina 139 die
01 Feb 1970
WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
01 Feb 1972
1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced (395)
01 Feb 1972
Wings release Give Ireland Back to the Irish in UK
01 Feb 1972
Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
01 Feb 1972
The Ministry of Defence also issues a detailed account of the British Armys version of events during Bloody Sunday
01 Feb 1972
NFL Draft Walt Patulski from University of Notre Dame first pick by Buffalo Bills
01 Feb 1973
Outfielder Monte Irvin is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues fourth inductee through the committee
01 Feb 1810
1st insurance company managed by African Americans The African Insurance Company opens in Philadelphia
01 Feb 1810
Seville Spain surrenders to the French without a fight
01 Feb 1864
Second Schleswig War begins when Prussian and Austrian forces cross into Schleswig challenging Danish control
01 Feb 1913
American all-round athlete Jim Thorpe signs a contract to play baseball with the New York Giants unlike his other sporting endeavours the Olympic-medal winners career in MLB was uninspiring
01 Feb 1914
Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play a 10-inning 3-3 tie in Cairo Egypt in an exhibition MLB game part of special 56-game world tour
01 Feb 1948
Finland goes 1-2 in the Nordic combined event at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics Heikki Hasu takes gold ahead of team mate Martti Huhtala
01 Feb 1958
Manchester United beats Arsenal 5-4 at Highbury in the teams last game on British soil 5 days prior to the plane crash at Munich airport that killed 7 players
01 Feb 1959
Heiss sisters go 1-2 in US womens Figure Skating Cships defending champion Carol wins from Nancy David Jenkins wins his third straight mens title
01 Feb 1959
Outfielder Zack Wheat a Brooklyn Robins favourite of the 1910s and 1920s is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Wheat hit .317 over 19-year career and batted .300 or better 14 times
01 Feb 1961
Australian cricket tail-enders Ken Mackay (62no) and Lindsay Kline (15no) hang on for 100 minutes to earn a famous draw on the final day vs West Indies in 4th Test in Adelaide
01 Feb 1962
MLBs National League releases its first 162-game schedule due to expansion (18 games between opponents)
01 Feb 1964
French sisters Christine Goitschel (gold) and Marielle Goitschel (silver) become first female siblings to win Olympic gold and silver in the same event when they dominate the slalom in Innsbruck
01 Feb 1967
The 10-team American Basketball Association (ABA) with George Mikan as Commissioner is formed and lasts 9 years its three-point shot remains a feature of the game
01 Feb 1969
Tim Wood wins second of 3 straight US Mens Figure Skating titles whilst Janet Lynn takes first of her 5 consecutive Womens National Championships in Seattle
01 Feb 1969
In his first start in a Ford legendary driver Richard Petty wins the Motor Trend 500 at Riverside California previous 92 NASCAR victories were in Plymouths
01 Feb 1970
Former MLB Commissioner Ford Frick as well as ex-players Earle Combs and Jesse Haines are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
01 Feb 1946
Norwegian politician Trygve Lie becomes 1st Secretary General of the United Nations
01 Feb 1948
Finland goes 1-2 in the Nordic combined event at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics Heikki Hasu takes gold ahead of teammate Martti Huhtala
01 Feb 1917
German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz announces unrestricted submarine warfare against allied shipping
01 Feb 1964
Stop the World I Want to Get Off... closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
01 Feb 1964
The Beatles 1st 1 hit I Want to Hold Your Hand topped the Hot 100 stays 1 for 7 weeks before being replaced by She Loves You also by The Beatles
01 Feb 1865
US President Lincoln signs 13th Amendment of US Constitution abolishing slavery in US celebrated as National Freedom Day [1]
01 Feb 1918
Franz Lehars opera Wo die Lerche singt (Where The Lark Sings) premieres at the Kirly Theatre in Budapest Hungary
01 Feb 1950
Urko Kekkonen elected Prime Minister of Finland
01 Feb 1964
Stop the World I Want to Get Off... closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
01 Feb 1669
French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
01 Feb 1717
Silent Sejm session of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth parliament marks the end of Augustus IIs attempts to create an absolute monarchy and the start of Russias influence and control over the Commonwealth [1]
01 Feb 1742
Sardinia and Austria sign military alliance Convention of Turin
01 Feb 1897
1st auto insurance policy in US issued by Travelers Insurance Company
01 Feb 1906
Dorothy Grey wife of British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey is fatally injured in a motor accident
01 Feb 1918
German spy Lothar Witzke arrested by CIP agent Byron S. Butcher at the US border at Nogales - only German spy sentenced in the US during WWI [1]
01 Feb 1934
Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own right-wing Fatherland Front (Vaterlndische Front)
01 Feb 1954
US TV soap opera The Secret Storm premieres on CBS
01 Feb 1962
New Faces of 62 opens at Alvin Theater NYC runs for 28 performances
01 Feb 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest the debut novel by Ken Kesey is published by Viking Press
01 Feb 1965
Australian Championship Mens Tennis Roy Emerson wins 3rd consecutive Australian title beats fellow Australian Fred Stolle 7-9 2-6 6-4 7-5 6-1
01 Feb 1622
English East India Company forces capture the Portuguese fort on the island of Hormus in the Persian Gulf an important trading center on the route to Mughal India
01 Feb 1842
1st adhesive postage stamps in US isssued by Alexander Greigs City Despatch Post company in New York City
01 Feb 1843
Oldest continuous writer of insurance in America opens the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (MONY)
01 Feb 1867
Operative Bricklayers Society unionist in London England start working 8-hour days instead of 9
01 Feb 1884
First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A-Ant is published
01 Feb 1908
In a high-profile trial American railway heir Harry Kendall Thaw is found not guilty of murdering architect Stanford White on grounds of insanity in a New York court [1]
01 Feb 1951
Arms manufacturer Alfred Krupp (43) and 28 other convicted German war criminals granted amnesty
01 Feb 1951
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1st live television broadcast of such detonation by KTLA in Los Angeles California at 530 AM local time
01 Feb 1972
The first scientific handheld calculator the HP-35 is introduced for 395
01 Feb 1972
Wings release single Give Ireland Back to the Irish in UK
01 Feb 1975
Hoppy Gene & Me single by Roy Rogers peaks at 65
01 Feb 1975
Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
01 Feb 1919
Brooklyn Robins trade former National League MVP Jake Daubert to Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Tommy Griffith result of a salary grievance
01 Feb 1946
The National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic
01 Feb 1952
First TV detector van begins operating in the UK to identify users of unlicensed television sets
01 Feb 1960
1st civil rights sit-in at Woolworths in Greensboro North Carolina four Black students - Joseph McNeil Franklin McCain David Richmond and Ezell Blair Jr. - spend the day waitng to be served at the segregated lunch counter in a peaceful protest
01 Feb 1964
The Beatles first 1 hit I Want to Hold Your Hand tops the Hot 100 stays 1 for 7 weeks before being replaced by She Loves You also by The Beatles
01 Feb 1968
The Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central merge into Penn Central