What are the important events that happened on February 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 1 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 19, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,738,368,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘triacontadigon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,425 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 1 Historical Events
- 1411 –The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
- 1865 –President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1960 –Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1972 –Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- 1982 –Senegal and the Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
- 1989 –The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
- 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 –Gary Bettman becomes the NHL’s first commissioner
- 2004 –251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
- 2022 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 1?
- 1552 –Edward Coke, English jurist and Member of Parliament (d. 1634)
- 1898 –Leila Denmark, American pediatrician and medical researcher who co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine and supercentenarian.
- 1940 –Hervé Filion, Canadian harness racer
- 1947 –Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
- 1953 –Brendan Batson, English former footballer
- 1954 –Chuck Dukowski, American musician (Black Flag)
- 1956 –Exene Cervenka, American musician
- 1970 –Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d. 2000)
- 1982 –Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby player
- 1986 –Lauren Conrad, American reality TV personality
Who died on February 1?
- 1590 –Lawrence Humphrey,English clergyman and educator
- 1691 –Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
- 1768 –Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
- 1893 –George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
- 1928 –Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
- 1940 –Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
- 1989 –Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918)
- 2003 –Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster): Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
- 2007 –Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
- 2007 –Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
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