About February 1
February 1, 2024 is the 32nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 9 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 1
- 1327 –Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
- 1920 –The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
- 1942 –World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
- 1946 –Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
- 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.
- 1974 –Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
- 1991 –A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the death of 34 persons, and the injury of 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
- 1998 –Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
- 2003 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 2003 –Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates 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.
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