People who have birthday's on February 1st.
1552 Sir Edward Coke England, jurist/politician (defended common law)
1763 Thomas Campbell founder (Church of Disciples in America)
1801 Thomas Cole US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
1805 Auguste Blanqui France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
1810 Charles Lenox Remond Salem Mass, famous black
1833 Henry McNeal Turner black methodist bishop
1841 William H.H. Davenport Buffalo, stage medium
1844 Granville Stanley Hall US, psychologist
1859 Victor Herbert Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
1882 Louis St Laurent (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
1889 Gertrude Caton-Thompson British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
1895 John Ford director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1897 Denise Robins London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
19-- Bill Leydon Chicago Ill, TV host (Musical Chairs)
19-- Brandis Kemp Palo Alto Calif, comedienne (Fridays)
19-- Don Amendolia Glassboro NJ, actor (Dino-Mama Malone)
19-- Leo Burmester Luoisville Ky, actor (Randy-Flo, Chiefs)
19-- Randy Josselyn actor (Rodney-Family Matters)
1901 Clark Gable actor, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara
1902 Langston Hughes poet/translator (The Weary Blues)
1904 S.J. Perelman author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1906 Hildegarde Adell Wisc, night club singer (I'll Be Seeing You)
1907 John Canaday art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
1908 Albie Booth collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
1915 Sir Stanley Matthews 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1918 Muriel Spark Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1920 Pierre Jonqu‚res d'Oriola France, equest jumper (Oly-gold-1952, 64)
1922 Renata Tebaldi opera singer (Lo Boh‚me)
1926 Stuart Whitman SF Calif, actor (Cimarron Strip)
1927 Galway Kinnell Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
1929 Stuart Whitman actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Revenge)
1931 Boris Yeltsin Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931 Madeline Berthod Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 John Hart Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
1934 Bob Shane vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1935 Vladimir V Aksyonov cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1937 Don Everly Brownie Ky, singer (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 Garrett Morris New Orleans La, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1937 Ray Sawyer [Dr Hook], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
1938 Jacky Cupit golfer (Rookie of the Year 1961)
1938 Sherman Hemsley Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen)
1940 Herve Filion sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
1941 Anatoliy Firssov USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 Franco Nones Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
1942 Bibi Besch Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, The Beast Within)
1943 Terry Jones Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
1943 Tina Sloan NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
1946 Bert Braverman LA Calif, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
1952 Rick James [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1954 Billy Mumy actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1954 Mike Campbell guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
1954 Mike Campbell rocker (Tom Petty & Heartbreaker-Damn the Torpedoes)
1964 Jani Lane heavy metal drummer (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1965 Brandon Lee Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
1965 Princess Stephanie Marie Elisabeth of Monaco, rocker (Stephanie)
1965 Sherilyn Fenn Detroit Mich, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks)
1966 Donna Edmondson Greensboro NC, playmate of the year (Nov, 1986)
1968 Lisa Marie Presley Keough (Elvis' daughter)
Events which occured on this day:
On this day...
772 Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1788 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1790 Supreme Court convenes for the 1st time (NYC)
1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
1810 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to the French
1810 US Population: 7,239,881. Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
1814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
1840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
1846 Th‚phile Gautier publishes "The Hashish Club" about his initiation
1860 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
1862 Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1865 JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an offical speech in
House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
1881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion
thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite
1893 The opera "Manon Lescaut" is produced (Turin)
1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1896 The opera "La Boheme" is produced (Turin)
1898 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
1906 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1914 NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed
1916 H Thiele discovers asteroid #1847 Stobbe
1920 1st commercial armored car introduced, St Paul, Minn
1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
1926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1929 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402« lbs
1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss desolves all political parties but his
1935 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
1937 Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1949 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used
1951 -50ø F (-46ø C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1953 "General Electric Theater" premiers on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premiers on CBS television
1954 Soap opera "The Secret Storm" premiers
1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1958 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1959 Lowell Observatory discovers asteroid #2847
1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1961 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing
1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
1965 Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a
Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1972 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premiers on CBS TV
1975 1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1975 Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premiers on ABC TV
1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977 Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1981 11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
1982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1984 Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
1985 -69ø F (-56ø C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
1986 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
1987 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989 Princess Diane of England visits NYC
1991 President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
1991 US Air & commuter jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
1992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
1992 Denis Potvin's #5 becomes the 1st number retired by the NY Islanders
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