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

  • 1709 –
    Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
  • 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.
  • 1793 –
    French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
  • 1865 –
    President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • 1893 –
    Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • 1918 –
    Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
  • 1919 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
  • 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.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
  • 1946 –
    Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
  • 1965 –
    The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
  • 1968 –
    The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
  • 1972 –
    Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
  • 1974 –
    Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
  • 1979 –
    Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
  • 1989 –
    The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
  • 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
  • 1996 –
    The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.

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