About February 1
February 1, 2025 is the 32nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 381 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 1
- 1411 –The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
- 1662 –The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
- 1893 –Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 1942 –Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
- 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.
- 1968 –The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams. This image helped build opposition to the Vietnam War.
- 1974 –A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
- 1978 –Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
- 1979 –The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
- 1991 –A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the death of 34 persons, and the injury of 30 others.
- 1998 –Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
- 2004 –Janet Jackson’s breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
- 2005 –King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
- 2041 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rooster in Chinese astrology.
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