1st february anniversaries

  • Birth
    • 1859
    • Ireland
    • "Birth of Victor Herbert, Irish-born American composer of light opera"
  • event
    • 1793
    • Napeolonic Wars Begin
    • 1884
    • United Kingdom
    • The first of the ten volumes of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. (The tenth volume was published in April 1928)
    • 1933
    • United States
    • "USS Ranger, the first aircraft carrier, was launched ."
    • 1958
    • Ukraine
    • The United Arab Republic was founded
    • 1979
    • "Iran, Islamic Republic of"
    • Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
    • 1979
    • United States
    • American media heiress Patty Hearst was released from prison after her sentence for bank robbery was commuted by US President Jimmy Carter
  • Death
    • 1733
    • Poland
    • Death of King Augustus II of Poland .
    • 1908
    • Portugal
    • "Death of King Carlos I of Portugal and his eldest son, Luís Felipe, assassinated by revolutionaries in Lisbon."
    • 1958
    • United States
    • "Death of Clinton Davisson, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner ."
    • 1988
    • United States
    • "Death of Heather O'Rourke, American actress"

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