February 1
1790 - The Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, meeting in New York City.
1861 - Texas voted to secede from the Union.
1862 - Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
1865 - Abolitionist John S. Rock became the first Black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1884 - The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A-Ant, was published.
1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established.
1943 - During World War II, one of America’s most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.
1946 - A press conference announcing the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
1946 - Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
1959 - Men in Switzerland rejected giving women the right to vote by a more than 2-1 referendum margin. (Swiss women gained the right to vote in 1971.)
1960 - Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a whites-only lunch counter in Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1968 - During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image was captured in a now iconic photograph.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
1991 - Thirty-four people were killed when an arriving USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a vidotaped deposition for senators weighing impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton.
2003 - The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to re-enter Earth's atmosphere after a 16-day mission in space; all seven members of the crew were killed.
2004 - Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred where one of her breasts was exposed on live national television during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII.
2009 - Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.
2011 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not run for a new term but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately.
2012 - Facebook, the Internet social network, announced plans to go public with a stock offering.
2016 - The World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the explosive spread of the Zika virus, which was linked to birth defects in the Americas, calling it an “extraordinary event” that posed a public health threat to other parts of the world.
2017 - A nearly 20-hour prison hostage standoff began in Delaware as inmates at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center seized four staff members; one guard was killed, two hostages released before authorities put down the uprising and rescued the remaining captive.
2017 - Violence and rioting at the University of California, Berkeley, forced the cancellation of a talk by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Birthdays
28 - Harry Styles (singer)
31 - Jasmine Tookes (model)
35 - Ronda Rousey (MMA fighter / professional wrestler)
35 - Heather Morris (actress/singer)
36 - Lauren Conrad (reality star)
43 - Julie Roberts (singer)
43 - Jason Isbell (musician)
47 - Big Boi (rapper)
51 - Michael C. Hall (actor)
53 - Brian Krause (actor)
54 - Pauly Shore (actor/comedian)
54 - Lisa Marie Presley (actress/singer)
57 - Sherilyn Fenn (actress)
57 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco
72 - Mike Campbell (musician)
81 - Joy Philbin (TV personality)
83 - Del McCoury (singer)
85 - Garrett Morris (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 1
1913 - Jim Thorpe signed a contract to play baseball with the New York Giants.
1950 - Green Bay Packers founder, player and coach Curly Lambeau resigns after 31 seasons and 6 NFL titles.
1962 - The National League released its first 162-game schedule.
1967 - The 10-team American Basketball Association is formed and would last for nine years, bringing many features to the sport still in use today, such as the three-point shot.
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigned as head coach of the Green Bay Packers.
1970 - Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1992 - Barry Bonds signed the largest single-season contract in MLB history to date at $4.7 million with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1992 - The New York Islanders retired Denis Potvin's #5.
1995 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz became the NBA's all-time career assists leader with 9,922, moving past Magic Johnson.
1994 - Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, pleaded guilty in Portland, Oregon, to racketeering for his part in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in exchange for a 24-month sentence (he ended up serving six months) and a $100,000 fine.
2004 - The New England Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in Houston to win Super Bowl XXXVIII.
2006 - High school senior Epiphany Prince scores an U.S. national high school girls record 113 points in Murry Bergtram High School's 137-32 win over Brandeis High School, breaking Cheryl Miller's national high school record of 105.
2008 - Johan Santana signs a six-year, $137.5 million contract with the New York Mets to become the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history.
2009 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XLIII; the victory gave the Steelers a record sixth Super Bowl title.
2014 - Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning wins a record fifth NFL MVP award.
2014 - Ray Guy becomes the second pure kicker and first pure punter to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2014 - American businessman and lawyer Adam Silver is named the NBA's fifth commissioner in league history.
2015 - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady set a Super Bowl record with 37 pass completions and set a Super Bowl career record with his 13th touchdown pass in championship games.
2015 - The New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in Glendale, Arizona to win Super Bowl XLIX.
1790 - The Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, meeting in New York City.
1861 - Texas voted to secede from the Union.
1862 - Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
1865 - Abolitionist John S. Rock became the first Black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1884 - The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A-Ant, was published.
1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established.
1943 - During World War II, one of America’s most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.
1946 - A press conference announcing the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
1946 - Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
1959 - Men in Switzerland rejected giving women the right to vote by a more than 2-1 referendum margin. (Swiss women gained the right to vote in 1971.)
1960 - Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a whites-only lunch counter in Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1968 - During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon's police chief and the image was captured in a now iconic photograph.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.
1991 - Thirty-four people were killed when an arriving USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a vidotaped deposition for senators weighing impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton.
2003 - The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to re-enter Earth's atmosphere after a 16-day mission in space; all seven members of the crew were killed.
2004 - Janet Jackson's famous "wardrobe malfunction" occurred where one of her breasts was exposed on live national television during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII.
2009 - Johanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland's first female prime minister.
2011 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not run for a new term but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately.
2012 - Facebook, the Internet social network, announced plans to go public with a stock offering.
2016 - The World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the explosive spread of the Zika virus, which was linked to birth defects in the Americas, calling it an “extraordinary event” that posed a public health threat to other parts of the world.
2017 - A nearly 20-hour prison hostage standoff began in Delaware as inmates at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center seized four staff members; one guard was killed, two hostages released before authorities put down the uprising and rescued the remaining captive.
2017 - Violence and rioting at the University of California, Berkeley, forced the cancellation of a talk by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Birthdays
28 - Harry Styles (singer)
31 - Jasmine Tookes (model)
35 - Ronda Rousey (MMA fighter / professional wrestler)
35 - Heather Morris (actress/singer)
36 - Lauren Conrad (reality star)
43 - Julie Roberts (singer)
43 - Jason Isbell (musician)
47 - Big Boi (rapper)
51 - Michael C. Hall (actor)
53 - Brian Krause (actor)
54 - Pauly Shore (actor/comedian)
54 - Lisa Marie Presley (actress/singer)
57 - Sherilyn Fenn (actress)
57 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco
72 - Mike Campbell (musician)
81 - Joy Philbin (TV personality)
83 - Del McCoury (singer)
85 - Garrett Morris (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 1
1913 - Jim Thorpe signed a contract to play baseball with the New York Giants.
1950 - Green Bay Packers founder, player and coach Curly Lambeau resigns after 31 seasons and 6 NFL titles.
1962 - The National League released its first 162-game schedule.
1967 - The 10-team American Basketball Association is formed and would last for nine years, bringing many features to the sport still in use today, such as the three-point shot.
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigned as head coach of the Green Bay Packers.
1970 - Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1992 - Barry Bonds signed the largest single-season contract in MLB history to date at $4.7 million with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1992 - The New York Islanders retired Denis Potvin's #5.
1995 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz became the NBA's all-time career assists leader with 9,922, moving past Magic Johnson.
1994 - Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, pleaded guilty in Portland, Oregon, to racketeering for his part in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in exchange for a 24-month sentence (he ended up serving six months) and a $100,000 fine.
2004 - The New England Patriots defeat the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in Houston to win Super Bowl XXXVIII.
2006 - High school senior Epiphany Prince scores an U.S. national high school girls record 113 points in Murry Bergtram High School's 137-32 win over Brandeis High School, breaking Cheryl Miller's national high school record of 105.
2008 - Johan Santana signs a six-year, $137.5 million contract with the New York Mets to become the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history.
2009 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XLIII; the victory gave the Steelers a record sixth Super Bowl title.
2014 - Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning wins a record fifth NFL MVP award.
2014 - Ray Guy becomes the second pure kicker and first pure punter to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2014 - American businessman and lawyer Adam Silver is named the NBA's fifth commissioner in league history.
2015 - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady set a Super Bowl record with 37 pass completions and set a Super Bowl career record with his 13th touchdown pass in championship games.
2015 - The New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in Glendale, Arizona to win Super Bowl XLIX.
