February 1
1790 - The United States Supreme Court convened for the first time, meeting in New York City.
1862 - Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in 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.
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 announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
1959 - Men in Switzerland rejected giving women the right to vote by a more than 2-to-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 at 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; that event was captured in a photograph that become one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni returned to Iran 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.
2003 - The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after a 16-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
2009 - Johanna Sigurdardottir took office as the first female prime minister of Iceland.
2011 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters’ demands he step down immediately and leave the country, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest to date calling on him to go.
2016 - he 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.
2018 - Republican State Rep. Don Shooter was expelled from the Arizona House because of a lengthy pattern of sexual misconduct, making him the first state lawmaker in the U.S. to be booted out since the #MeToo movement emerged.
2018 - Sheriff’s officials in Los Angeles said new witnesses had emerged in the 1981 drowning death of actress Natalie Wood, prompting investigators to name her former husband, Robert Wagner, a “person of interest” in what they considered a “suspicious death.” (Detectives later said the evidence hadn’t reached the threshold for a murder investigation and that they had no plans to file criminal charges.)
2022 - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. and its allies of ignoring Russia’s top security demands but signaled he was willing to engage in more diplomacy to ease tensions in Ukraine. (Russia would invade Ukraine on Feb. 24.)
2022 - ABC News announced that Whoopi Goldberg would be suspended for two weeks as co-host of “The View” over remarks a day earlier about Jews and the Holocaust that the network called “wrong and hurtful.”
Birthdays
23 - Paris Smith (actress)
29 - Harry Styles (singer)
29 - Julia Garner (actress)
32 - Jasmine Tookes (model)
36 - Ronda Rousey (MMA fighter/professional wrestler)
36 - Heather Morris (actress/singer)
37 - Lauren Conrad (reality star)
44 - Julie Roberts (singer)
48 - Big Boi (rapper)
52 - Michael C. Hall (actor)
54 - Brian Krause (actor)
55 - Pauly Shore (comedian/actor)
58 - Princes Stephanie of Monaco
59 - Linus Roache (actor)
82 - Joy Philbin (TV personality)
86 - 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.
1962 - The National League released its first 162-game schedule.
1967 - The 10-team American Basketball Association (ABA) is formed with George Mikan named commissioner. (The league would last for nine years and brought innovations still in use today, most notably, the 3-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.
1984 - American lawyer and businessman David Stern is named NBA commissioner, succeeding Larry O'Brien. (Stern would remain in the position for 30 years.)
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 Dennis Potvin's #5.
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.
1995 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz became the NBA's career assists leader when he recorded his 9,922nd, moving past Magic Johnson.
2004 - During the halftime show of the Super Bowl, Janet Jackson, while performing with Justin Timberlake, suffered her now infamous "wardrobe malfunction" where her bare breast was exposed briefly on live television.
2004 - The New England Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in Super Bowl XXXVIII.
2006 - High school senior Epiphany Prince scores a girls basketball high school national record 113 points in Murry Bergraum High School's 137-32 win over Brandeis High School, surpassing the previous national record of 105 points set by Cheryl Miller.
2008 - Minnesota Twins starter Johan Santana signs a six-year, $137.5 million deal with the New York Mets to become the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history.
2009 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 to win Super Bowl XLIII.
2014 - American businessman and lawyer Adam Silver is named the next NBA commissioner, succeeding David Stern.
2014 - Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning wins a record fifth NFL MVP award.
2014 - Ray Guy (Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders) becomes the second pure kicker (Jan Stenerud) and first pure punter to be named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2015 - The New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 to win Super Bowl XLIX. Tom Brady of the New England Patriots set a Super Bowl record with 37 pass completions and set a career record with 13 touchdown passes in Super Bowl games over his career.
2022 - Quarterback Tom Brady announced his retirement from the NFL at age 44 after winning a record seven Super Bowls and an unprecedented 22-year career. (Six weeks later he would reverse course and announce he would return for a 23rd season)
1790 - The United States Supreme Court convened for the first time, meeting in New York City.
1862 - Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published in 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.
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 announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.
1959 - Men in Switzerland rejected giving women the right to vote by a more than 2-to-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 at 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; that event was captured in a photograph that become one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War.
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni returned to Iran 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.
2003 - The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after a 16-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.
2009 - Johanna Sigurdardottir took office as the first female prime minister of Iceland.
2011 - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced he would not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters’ demands he step down immediately and leave the country, after a dramatic day in which a quarter-million Egyptians staged their biggest protest to date calling on him to go.
2016 - he 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.
2018 - Republican State Rep. Don Shooter was expelled from the Arizona House because of a lengthy pattern of sexual misconduct, making him the first state lawmaker in the U.S. to be booted out since the #MeToo movement emerged.
2018 - Sheriff’s officials in Los Angeles said new witnesses had emerged in the 1981 drowning death of actress Natalie Wood, prompting investigators to name her former husband, Robert Wagner, a “person of interest” in what they considered a “suspicious death.” (Detectives later said the evidence hadn’t reached the threshold for a murder investigation and that they had no plans to file criminal charges.)
2022 - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. and its allies of ignoring Russia’s top security demands but signaled he was willing to engage in more diplomacy to ease tensions in Ukraine. (Russia would invade Ukraine on Feb. 24.)
2022 - ABC News announced that Whoopi Goldberg would be suspended for two weeks as co-host of “The View” over remarks a day earlier about Jews and the Holocaust that the network called “wrong and hurtful.”
Birthdays
23 - Paris Smith (actress)
29 - Harry Styles (singer)
29 - Julia Garner (actress)
32 - Jasmine Tookes (model)
36 - Ronda Rousey (MMA fighter/professional wrestler)
36 - Heather Morris (actress/singer)
37 - Lauren Conrad (reality star)
44 - Julie Roberts (singer)
48 - Big Boi (rapper)
52 - Michael C. Hall (actor)
54 - Brian Krause (actor)
55 - Pauly Shore (comedian/actor)
58 - Princes Stephanie of Monaco
59 - Linus Roache (actor)
82 - Joy Philbin (TV personality)
86 - 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.
1962 - The National League released its first 162-game schedule.
1967 - The 10-team American Basketball Association (ABA) is formed with George Mikan named commissioner. (The league would last for nine years and brought innovations still in use today, most notably, the 3-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.
1984 - American lawyer and businessman David Stern is named NBA commissioner, succeeding Larry O'Brien. (Stern would remain in the position for 30 years.)
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 Dennis Potvin's #5.
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.
1995 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz became the NBA's career assists leader when he recorded his 9,922nd, moving past Magic Johnson.
2004 - During the halftime show of the Super Bowl, Janet Jackson, while performing with Justin Timberlake, suffered her now infamous "wardrobe malfunction" where her bare breast was exposed briefly on live television.
2004 - The New England Patriots defeated the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in Super Bowl XXXVIII.
2006 - High school senior Epiphany Prince scores a girls basketball high school national record 113 points in Murry Bergraum High School's 137-32 win over Brandeis High School, surpassing the previous national record of 105 points set by Cheryl Miller.
2008 - Minnesota Twins starter Johan Santana signs a six-year, $137.5 million deal with the New York Mets to become the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history.
2009 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 to win Super Bowl XLIII.
2014 - American businessman and lawyer Adam Silver is named the next NBA commissioner, succeeding David Stern.
2014 - Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning wins a record fifth NFL MVP award.
2014 - Ray Guy (Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders) becomes the second pure kicker (Jan Stenerud) and first pure punter to be named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2015 - The New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 to win Super Bowl XLIX. Tom Brady of the New England Patriots set a Super Bowl record with 37 pass completions and set a career record with 13 touchdown passes in Super Bowl games over his career.
2022 - Quarterback Tom Brady announced his retirement from the NFL at age 44 after winning a record seven Super Bowls and an unprecedented 22-year career. (Six weeks later he would reverse course and announce he would return for a 23rd season)
