Today in History : February 1
1327 : Edward III is coronated King of England.
1587 : Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the Warrant of Execution for Mary Queen of Scots.
1633 : The tobacco laws of Virginia are codified, limiting tobacco production to reduce dependence on a single-crop economy.
1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands.
1861 : A furious Governor Sam Houston storms out of a legislative session upon learning that Texas has voted 167-7 to secede from the Union.
1902 : U.S. Secretary of State John Hay protests Russian privileges in China as a violation of the “open door policy.”
1905 : Germany contests French rule in Morocco.
1909 : U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president.
1930 : A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California.
1942 : Planes of the U.S. Pacific fleet attack Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
1943 : American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions at Faid Pass in North Africa.
1944 : U.S. Army troops invade two Kwajalein Islands in the Pacific.
1945 : U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March.
1951 : Three A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada.
1960 : Four black students stage a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter.
1964 : President Lyndon B. Johnson rejects Charles de Gaulle‘s plan for a neutral Vietnam.
1965 : Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama.
1968 : U.S. troops drive the North Vietnamese out of Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon.
1968 : South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law.
1986 : Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead.
Born on February 1
1552 : Sir Edward Coke, English jurist who helped the development of English law with his arguments for the supremacy of common law over royal prerogative.
1878 : Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1901 : Clark Gable, American film actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone With the Wind).
1902 : Langston Hughes, African-American poet
1931 : Boris Yeltsin, The first president of the Republic of Russia and prime minister of the Russian Federation.
1327 : Edward III is coronated King of England.
1587 : Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the Warrant of Execution for Mary Queen of Scots.
1633 : The tobacco laws of Virginia are codified, limiting tobacco production to reduce dependence on a single-crop economy.
1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands.
1861 : A furious Governor Sam Houston storms out of a legislative session upon learning that Texas has voted 167-7 to secede from the Union.
1902 : U.S. Secretary of State John Hay protests Russian privileges in China as a violation of the “open door policy.”
1905 : Germany contests French rule in Morocco.
1909 : U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president.
1930 : A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California.
1942 : Planes of the U.S. Pacific fleet attack Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
1943 : American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions at Faid Pass in North Africa.
1944 : U.S. Army troops invade two Kwajalein Islands in the Pacific.
1945 : U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March.
1951 : Three A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada.
1960 : Four black students stage a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter.
1964 : President Lyndon B. Johnson rejects Charles de Gaulle‘s plan for a neutral Vietnam.
1965 : Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama.
1968 : U.S. troops drive the North Vietnamese out of Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon.
1968 : South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law.
1986 : Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead.
Born on February 1
1552 : Sir Edward Coke, English jurist who helped the development of English law with his arguments for the supremacy of common law over royal prerogative.
1878 : Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1901 : Clark Gable, American film actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone With the Wind).
1902 : Langston Hughes, African-American poet
1931 : Boris Yeltsin, The first president of the Republic of Russia and prime minister of the Russian Federation.
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