On this day in History - Feb. 01

• 0125 - Papa Sisto I morreu neste dia.
• 1248 - Henry II, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1207).
• 1261 - Walter de Stapledon was born (d. 1326). English bishop.
• 1328 - King Charles IV of France dies (b. 1294).
• 1455 - Rei João da Dinamarca, Noruega e Suécia, nasceu neste dia.
• 1462 - Johannes Trithemius was born (d. 1516). German cryptographer.
• 1552 - Edward Coke was born (d. 1634). English colonial entrepreneur and jurist.
• 1563 - Menas dies. Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence.
• 1590 - Lawrence Humphrey dies. English clergyman and educator
• 1635 - Marquard Gude was born (d. 1689). German archaeologist.
• 1662 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
• 1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini was born (d. 1768). Italian composer.
• 1691 - Pope Alexander VIII dies (b. 1610).
• 1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion.
• 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.
• 1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury dies (b. 1660). English politician.
• 1733 - King Augustus II of Poland dies (b. 1670).
• 1734 - John Floyer dies (b. 1649). English physician and writer.
• 1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni dies (b. 1657). Italian composer.
• 1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix dies (b. 1682). French historian.
• 1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon was born (d. 1836). South African mycologist.
• 1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet dies (b. 1685). British cavalry officer.
• 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 (b. 1717). British statesman.
• 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 (d. 24 Apr 1924). American psychologist.
• 1847 - Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho was born in Lisbon (d. 24 Mar 1921). Portuguese writer.
• 1851 - Mary Shelley dies (b. 1797). English author.
• 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 (d. 1924). Irish composer.
• 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 in Reims (d. 20 Apr 1960). French poet.
• 1873 - Mariano Azuela was born (d. 1 Mar 1952). Mexican novelist.
• 1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born (d. 1929). Austrian lyricist, dramatist, narrator, and essayist) .
• 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 (d. 1973). Twelfth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1884 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin was born (d. 1937). Russian writer.
• 1886 - Rouget de Lisle dies. French composer, author of "La marsellesa", national hymn.
• 1887 - Charles Nordhoff was born (d. 1947). English-born author.
• 1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio (West Orange, New Jersey).
• 1893 - George Henry Sanderson dies (b. 1824). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1894 - John Ford was born (d. 1973). American director, producer.
• 1894 - James P. Johnson was born (d. 1955). American pianist, composer.
• 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.
• 1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen dies (b. 1826). Austrian geologist.
• 1901 - Clark Gable was born (d. 1960). American actor ( Gone With the Wind)
• 1902 - Langston Hughes was born (d. 1967). American writer, poet.
• 1903 - George Gabriel Stokes dies. Irish mathematicien and physicist.
• 1904 - S. J. Perelman was born (d. 1979). American humorist, author .
• 1905 - Emilio G. 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. American actress, singer.
• 1907 - Günter Eich was born (d. 1972). German lyricist.
• 1907 - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was born in Tietê-SP. Brazilian musician and composer.
• 1908 - George Pál was born (d. 1980). Hungarian-born director, producer.
• 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.
• 1909 - George Beverly Shea was born. Canadian singer
• 1913 - New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
• 1915 - Sir Stanley Matthews was born. English football (soccer) player who was the 1st British soccer player to be knighted .
• 1918 - Dame Muriel Spark was born. Scottish 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 (d. 2004). Italian soprano.
• 1924 - United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
• 1925 - Alfred Grosser was born in Frankfurt/Main. German political scientist and publicist.
• 1928 - Hughie Jennings dies (b. 1869). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 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).
• 1936 - Azie Taylor Morton was born (d. 2003). U.S. Treasurer.
• 1937 - Fernando Assis Pacheco was born in Coimbra (d. in Lisbon, 30 Nov 1995). Portuguese journalist, poet and novelist.
• 1937 - Don Everly was born. American musician .
• 1937 - Garrett Morris was born. American comedian .
• 1938 - Sherman Hemsley was born. American comedian, actor.
• 1940 - Bibi Besch was born (d. 1996). Austrian-American actress.
• 1941 - Karl Dall was born. German television moderator.
• 1941 - Anatoly Firsov was born in Russia (d. 2000). USSR ice hockey player (Olympics-gold-1964, 68, 72). Leading scorer in the 1968 Olympics with 12 goals and 4 assists in seven games. He was European championship 7 times, and world championship 8 times
• 1942 - Terry Jones was born. Welsh actor and writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus) .
• 1943 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
• 1944 - Piet Mondriaan dies (b. 1872). Dutch painter.
• 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 (d. 1983). American journalist.
• 1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates.
• 1948 - Rick James was born (d. 2004). American musician and composer.
• 1948 - Elisabeth Sladen was born. British actress.
• 1950 - Mike Campbell was born. American guitarist and producer.
• 1953 - O Sporting vence o Benfica no Estádio Nacional por 3-1 em jogo do Campeonato Nacional da época de 1952/53, que venceria. O Benfica marcou primeiro por José Águas para depois Albano, Vasques e Rola marcarem a favor do Sporting.
• 1954 - Bill Mumy was born. American actor, musician.
• 1956 - Exene Cervenka was born. American musician (X)
• 1957 - Friedrich Paulus dies (b. 1890). German general.
• 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.
• 1961 - Volker Fried was born. German field hockey player
• 1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei was born. Japanese guitarist.
• 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama .
• 1965 - Sherilyn Fenn was born. American actress .
• 1965 - Brandon Bruce Lee was born (d. 18993). American actor.
• 1965 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco was born.
• 1966 - Hedda Hopper dies (b. 1885). American gossip columnist.
• 1966 - Buster Keaton [Joseph Francis] dies (b. 1895). American actor.
• 1966 - Michelle Akers was born. American soccer player.
• 1968 - Lisa Marie Presley was born. American singer and actress.
• 1968 - Pauly Shore was born. American comedian.
• 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 .
• 1969 - Joshua Redman was born. American musician.
• 1971 - Adriana Vitor Lessa was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1971 - Yoshi DeHerrera was born. American television personality.
• 1971 - Zlatko Zahovič was born. Slovenian footballer.
• 1971 - Jill Kelly was born. American erotic actress.
• 1971 - Zlatko Zahovič was born. Slovenian footballer
• 1974 - In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293.
• 1974 - Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.
• 1975 - Big Boi was born. American musician (Outkast)
• 1976 - George Hoyt 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.
• 1977 - Kevin Kilbane was born. Irish footballer
• 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 Wills Douglas, Sr. dies (b. 6 Apr 1892). U.S. aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company.
• 1981 - Geirr Tveitt dies (b. 1908). Norwegian composer.
• 1982 - Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
• 1984 - Darren Fletcher was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1985 - Dean Shiels was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 1986 - Alva Myrdal dies (b. 1902). Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1988 - Heather O'Rourke dies (b. 1975). American actress.
• 1989 - Elaine de Kooning dies (b. 1819). American artist.
• 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.
• 1993 - Augusto Cabrita dies (b. 16 Mar 1923). Portuguese photographer and film director.
• 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 (b. 1916). American newspaper columnist.
• 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 (b. 1925). German actress, singer, writer.
• 2003 - Mongo Santamaria dies (b. 1922). Cuban 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.
• 2004 - Janet Jackson exposes her breast on American television
• 2005 - John Vernon dies (b. 1932). Canadian actor.