About February 1
February 1, 2024 is the 32nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 9 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 1
- 1327 –Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 1411 –The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
- 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.
- 1793 –French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- 1865 –President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1876 –A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband.
- 1897 –Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
- 1920 –The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
- 1924 –The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
- 1957 –Felix Wankel’s first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
- 1958 –Egypt and Syria merge to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
- 1960 –Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1965 –The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
- 1989 –The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
- 1993 –Gary Bettman becomes the NHL’s first commissioner
- 1996 –The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 2003 –Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
- 2004 –251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
- 2005 –King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
- 2022 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
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