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"