On this day: 1 February
Events, births and deaths on 1 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Horst Köhler
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores
- Events · 9th Legislative Yuan
100 years ago1926
- Births · Vivian Maier
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 26
- 1329(Julian date)Siege of Medvėgalis — 1329 siege in Lithuania
- 1713Skirmish at Bender — 1713 battle
- 1864Second Schleswig War — second military conflict as a result of the Schleswig-Holstein Question
- 1908Lisbon Regicide — February 1908 murder of the king and crown prince of Portugal
- 1942Voice of America — United States international broadcaster
- 1942Quisling regime — fascist collaboratonist government in German-occupied Norway during World War II
- 1942Marshalls–Gilberts raids — 1942 military operation
- 1946Second Hungarian Republic — Central European state between 1946 and 1949
- 1957Northeast Airlines Flight 823 — 1957 aviation incident
- 1968Canadian Armed Forces — combined military forces of Canada
- 1968Saigon Execution — 1968 photograph by Eddie Adams
- 1974Joelma fire — extreme fire that destroyed the Joelma building in 1974
- 1979Ruhollah Khomeini's return to Iran — 1979 return of the Iranian religious leader
- 1991USAir Flight 1493 — 1991 runway collision between a USAir Boeing 737 and a SkyWest Metroliner at Los Angeles International Airport
- 2003Space Shuttle Columbia disaster — 2003 fatal incident in a United States space program
- 2004Super Bowl XXXVIII — 2004 edition of the Super Bowl
- 2004Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy — 2004 controversy over indecent exposure on television
- 20042004 Erbil bombings — terrorist attack in Iraqi Kurdistan
- 20087th Legislative Yuan — 2008-2012 Legislative Yuan, Taiwan
- 2009First cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir — cabinet
- 2012Port Said Stadium riot — February 2012 association football riot in Port Said, Egypt
- 20169th Legislative Yuan — 2016-2020 Legislative Yuan, Taiwan
- 202010th Legislative Yuan — 2020–2024 Legislative Yuan, Taiwan
- 20212021 Myanmar coup d'état — 2021 military overthrow of the Myanmar's officially elected government
- 20222022 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état attempt — 2022 coup d'état attempt in Guinea-Bissau
- 202411th Legislative Yuan — 2024-2028 Legislative Yuan, Taiwan
Births · 60
- 1435(Julian date)Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy — Duke of Savoy and Blessed
- 1462(Julian date)
- 1550(Julian date)John Napier — Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
- 1561(Julian date)Henry Briggs — British mathematician
- 1659Jakob Roggeveen — Dutch Pacific Ocean explorer
- 1761Christiaan Hendrik Persoon — German mycologist (1761-1836)
- 1801Thomas Cole — 19th-century American painter (1801-1848)
- 1801Émile Littré — French lexicographer and philosopher (1801-1881)
- 1844G. Stanley Hall — American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)
- 1874Hugo von Hofmannsthal — Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)
- 1878Alfréd Hajós — Hungarian swimmer, footballer, and architect (1878-1955)
- 1878Milan Hodža — Slovak politician and journalist (1878-1944)
- 1882Louis St. Laurent — 12th Prime Minister of Canada (1882-1973)
- 1894John Ford — American film director (1894–1973)
- 1901Clark Gable — American actor (1901–1960)
- 1901Langston Hughes — American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
- 1905Emilio G. Segrè — Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
- 1915Stanley Matthews — English association football player (1915-2000)
- 1918Muriel Spark — Scottish novelist and writer (1918–2006)
- 1922Renata Tebaldi — Italian opera singer
- 1926Vivian Maier — French-American photographer (1926–2009)
- 1928Stuart Whitman — American actor (1928-2020)
- 1928Tom Lantos — American politician (1928-2008)
- 1930Hussain Muhammad Ershad — President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990 Former (6th) Army chief of Bangladesh
- 1930Shahabuddin Ahmed — President of Bangladesh (1930–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 850(Julian date)Ramiro I of Asturias — King of Asturias
- 1222(Julian date)Alexios I of Trebizond — Emperor of Trebizond
- 1248(Julian date)Henry II — Duke of Brabant and Lothier from 1235
- 1328(Julian date)Charles IV of France — King of France and Navarre from 1322 to 1328 (1294–1328)
- 1501Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria — Bavarian duke
- 1542(Julian date)Girolamo Aleandro — Cardinal and scholar (1480-1542)
- 1691Alexander VIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691
- 1718Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury — British diplomat; (1660-1718)
- 1733Augustus II the Strong — King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony (1670–1733)
- 1803Anders Chydenius — Swedish priest and politician (1729–1803)
- 1851Mary Shelley — English writer (1797–1851)
- 1871Alexander Serov — Russian composer (1820–1871)
- 1897Constantin von Ettingshausen — Austrian scientist (1826-1897)
- 1903Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet — Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
- 1908Carlos I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
- 1922William Desmond Taylor — Irish-American film director and actor (1872-1922)
- 1924Maurice Prendergast — American-Canadian artist (1858-1924)
- 1940Philip Francis Nowlan — American science fiction writer who created Buck Rogers (1888–1940)
- 1944Piet Mondrian — Dutch painter (1872–1944)
- 1949Herbert Stothart — American composer (1885-1949)
- 1950Pierre Prüm — politician (1886-1950)
- 1957Friedrich Paulus — German general (1890–1957)
- 1958Clinton Davisson — American physicist (1881-1958)
- 1959Madame Sul-Te-Wan — American actress (1873–1959)
- 1966Buster Keaton — American motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor
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