About February 1
February 1, 2025 is the 32nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 381 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).
- 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.
- 1790 –In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- 1793 –French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- 1814 –Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
- 1865 –President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1897 –Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
- 1924 –The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
- 1960 –Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 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.
- 1974 –A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
- 1974 –Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
- 1982 –Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
- 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.
- 1996 –The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 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.
- 2005 –King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
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