On this day in History - Feb. 01

• 125 - Papa Sisto I morreu neste dia.
• 1455 - Rei João da Dinamarca, Noruega e Suécia, nasceu neste dia.
• 1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence .
• 1662 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
• 1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini,was born, composer (d. 1768) .
• 1691 - Pope Alexander VIII dies (b. 1610).
• 1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion .
• 1691 - Alexander VIII [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
• 1761- Christian Hendrik Persoon,was born, mycologist (d. 1836).
• 1788 - Se creó el periódico The Time de Londres.
• 1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
• 1790 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
• 1793 - France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
• 1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, dies, British statesman (b. 1717) .
• 1796 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
• 1814 - Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.
• 1843 -Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was born, (d. 28 Jun 1928). English naval architect and engineer who made fundamental improvements in the design and machinery of torpedo boats and built the first torpedo boat for the Royal Navy.
• 1844 -Eduard Adolf Strasburger, was born (d. 18 May 1912). German plant cytologist who elucidated the process of nuclear division in the plant kingdom .
• 1844 - G. Stanley Hall, was born, psychologist (d. 24 Apr 1844) .
• 1851 - Mary Shelley, dies, English author (b. 1797) .
• 1859 - Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt was born, (d. 10 Mar 1928). American experimental pathologist and investigator of the chemotherapy of tuberculosis.
• 1859 - Victor Herbert,was born, composer (d. 1924) .
• 1861 - American Civil War: Texas secedes (7th state to do it) from the United States.
• 1862 - Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic is published for the first time (Atlantic Monthly).
• 1864 - Prusia y Austria invaden los ducados daneses de Schleswig, Holstein y Lanenburg .
• 1872 - Paul Fort, was born, French poet.
• 1873 - Nació Mariano Azuela.
• 1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, was born, lyricist, dramatist, narrator, and essayist (d. 1929) .
• 1876 - Muere el filósofo anarquista Mijil Alexandrovich Bakunin.
• 1880 - First edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
• 1881 - Comienza la construcción del Canal de Panamá.
• 1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent,was born, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1973)
• 1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1886 - Rouget de Lisle, fallecimiento de, compositor, autor de La marsellesa, himno nacional de Francia.
• 1887 - Charles Nordhoff, was born, author (d. 1947) .
• 1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
• 1894 - John Ford, was born, director, producer (d. 1973) .
• 1894 - James P. Johnson, was born, pianist, composer (d. 1955) .
• 1896 - The opera La Bohème premieres (Turin).
• 1896 - Alfonso Caso y Andrade was born (d. 30 Nov 1970). Mexican archaeologist and government official who explored the early Oaxacan cultures and is best remembered for his excavation of Tomb Seven at Monte Albán .
• 1901 - Clark Gable, was born (d. 1960), actor ( Gone With the Wind)
• 1902 - Langston Hughes American writer, poet (d. 1967)
• 1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, morte de, matemático e físico irlandês.
• 1904 - S. J. Perelman, humorist, author (d. 1979) .
• 1905 -Emilio Segrè, was born, ( d. 22 Apr 1989). Italian-born American physicist who was cowinner, with Owen Chamberlain of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 for the discovery of the antiproton
• 1905 -Lloyd Viel Berkner, was born (d. 4 June 1967). U.S. physicist and engineer who first measured the extent, including height and density, of the ionosphere (ionized layers of the Earth's atmosphere), leading to a complete understanding of radio wave propagation and he helped develop radar systems .
• 1905 - Charles Finney was born, US author (Circus of Dr Lao) .
• 1906 - Hildegarde, was born, actress, singer .
• 1907 - Günter Eich, was born, lyricist (d. 1972) .
• 1908 - George Pál, was born, director, producer (d. 1980) .
• 1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863) and his son, Prince Luis Filipe, Duque de Bragança, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon, by republicans.
• 1908 - Manuel II de Portugal ascende ao trono. In 1911, Thomas Jennings is found guilty with the first use of fingerprint evidence in the U.S. He was convicted at the Criminal Court of Cook County for killing Clarence B. Hiller .
• 1913 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
• 1915 - Sir Stanley Matthews, was born, 1st British soccer player to be knighted .
• 1918 - Dame Muriel Spark, was born, author .
• 1918 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
• 1919 - The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
• 1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.1922 - Renata Tebaldi, was born, Italian soprano .
• 1924 - United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
• 1925 - Alfred Grosser, was born, political scientist and publicist .
• 1928 - Hughie Jennings, dies, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1869)
• 1929 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
• 1931 - Boris Yeltsin, was born, Russian president 1991-1999 .
• 1935 - Dieter Kühn, was born, narrator, dramatist and essayist .
• 1937 - Don Everly, was born, musician .
• 1937 - Garrett Morris, was born, comedian .
• 1938 - Sherman Hemsley, was born, comedian, actor
• 1941 - Anatoliy Firssov was born, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72).
• 1942 - Terry Jones, was born, actor, writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus) .
• 1943 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
• 1944 - Piet Mondriaan, dies, Dutch painter (b. 1872) .
• 1944 - DNA was identified as the hereditary agent in a virus, published in a report by O.T. Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty. This crucial discovery in molecular genetics - that genetic information is carried in the nucleotide sequence of DNA - arose incidentally while studying pneumococcus to monitor the epidemic spread of pneumonia .
• 1946 - A Hungria é proclamada uma república com Zoltan Tildy como presidente e Ferenc Nagy como primeiro-ministro.
• 1946 - Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
• 1947 - Jessica Savitch, was born, journalist (d. 1983) .
• 1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates .
• 1952 - Rick James, was born, musician .
• 1954 - Bill Mumy, was born, actor, musician .
• 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961..
• 1958 - Clinton Joseph Davisson dies (b. 22 Oct 1881) American experimental physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937 with George P. Thomson of England for discovering that electrons can be diffracted like light waves, thus verifying the thesis of Louis de Broglie that electrons behave both as waves and as particles .
• 1959 - Texas Instruments was issued a patent on the integrated circuit .
• 1959 - Triunfó la Revolución dirigida por Fidel Castro. Fulgencio Batista huyó de Cuba.
• 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama .
• 1965 - Sherilyn Fenn, was born, actress .
• 1965 - Brandon Lee, was born, actor (d. 1993) .
• 1965 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco was born .
• 1966 - Hedda Hopper, dies, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
• 1966 - Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis] dies, American actor (b. 1895) .
• 1968 - Vietnam War: A Viet Cong officer is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed and helped sway public opinion against the war.
• 1968 - Lisa Marie Presley, was born, actress .
• 1968 - Pauly Shore, was born, comedian .
• 1969 - Gabriel Batistuta, was born, Argentine soccer player .
• 1971 - Jill Kelly, was born, erotic actress .
• 1971 - Zlatko Zahovič, was born, Slovenian football player , played this season for Benfica .
• 1974 - In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293.
• 1976 - George Hoyt Whipple, morte de, médico estadounidense, premio Nobel de Medicina em 1934.
• 1976 - George H. Whipple dies (b. 28 Aug 1878) American pathologist whose discovery that raw liver fed to chronically bled dogs will reverse the effects of anemia led directly to successful liver treatment of pernicious anemia by the American physicians George R. Minot and William P. Murphy. This major advance in the treatment of noninfectious diseases brought the three men the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934.
• 1976 -Werner Karl Heisenberg dies (b. 5 Dec 1901) Werner Karl Heisenberg was the German physicist and philosopher who discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices (1925). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932.
• 1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
• 1979 - Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
• 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• 1981 - Donald Douglas , dies (b. 6 Apr 1892) . U.S. aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company.
• 1981 - Geirr Tveitt, dies, Norwegian composer (b. 1908) .
• 1982 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia
• 1988 - Heather O'Rourke, dies, child actress (b. 1975) .
• 1991 - Um terremoto medindo 6.8 na escala Richter atinge o Afeganistão e o Paquistão, causando a morte de mais de 1200 pessoas .
• 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.
• 1994 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
• 1995 - Manic Street Preachers lyricist Richey James Edwards goes missing from the Embasy Hotel in London, UK.
• 1996 - Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress .
• 1997 - Herb Caen, dies, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916) .
• 1998 - 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2) .
• 1999 - North Dakota Public Radio is launched.
• 2002 - Hildegard Knef,dies, German actress, singer, writer (b. 1925) .
• 2003- Mongo Santamaria, dies, percussionist, band leader, Latin jazz musician.
• 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts onboard. They were: Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959), David Brown (b. 1956), Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961), Laurel Clark (b. 1961), Rick D. Husband (b. 1957), Willie McCool (b. 1961), Ilan Ramon (b. 1954) .
• 2004 - At least 244 people trampled to death in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
• 2004 - Super Bowl XXXVIII: The New England Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers, 32-29. During the half-time show Janet Jackson's right breast is bared.