| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Feb 1924 | New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR | |||
| 01 Feb 1924 | Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg | |||
| 01 Feb 1924 | Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain | |||
| 01 Feb 1924 | The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR. | |||
| 01 Feb 1924 | Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858) | |||
| 01 Feb 1924 | Emmanuel Scheffer, German-Israeli footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2012) | |||
| 01 Feb 1924 | Richard Hooker, American surgeon and author (d. 1997) | |||
| 01 Feb 1924 | WW2 | The United Kingdom officially recognized the Soviet Union. | ||
01 Feb 1924
John Logie Baird |
John Logie Baird (technology) John Logie Baird sends rudimentary television pictures over a short distance. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Feb 1949 | Jimmy Lee Thorpe: Roxboro, North Carolina -- PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open) | |||
| 01 Feb 1949 | Herbert Stothart: Composer, dies at 63 | |||
| 01 Feb 1949 | 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used | |||
| 01 Feb 1949 | RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm) | |||
| 01 Feb 1949 | Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885) | |||
| 01 Feb 1949 | Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880) | |||
| 01 Feb 1949 | RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single, the invention of this size record made jukeboxes possible. | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Feb 1974 | Jennifer Lien: Actress (Hannah Moore-Another World) | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | Lisa Marie Scott: Pensacola, Florida -- Playmate (Feb, 1994) | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | Walter McCarty: NBA forward (Boston Celtics) | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | Lynda Ann Healy: 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory. | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293. | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | David Meca, Spanish swimmer | |||
| 01 Feb 1974 | Walter McCarty, American basketball player and coach | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Feb 1999 | Paul Mellon, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1907) | |||
| 01 Feb 1999 | Barış Manço, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer (Moğollar and Kurtalan Ekspres) (b. 1943) | |||
| 01 Feb 1999 | Four hundred people were injured at an Australian concert by Marilyn Manson when he stormed off stage after being bombarded with missiles and abuse at the show in Perth. One of Manson's guitar technicians needed treatment for cuts to his head. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Feb 2004 | Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines. | |||
| 01 Feb 2004 | 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. | |||
| 01 Feb 2004 | Suha Arın, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942) | |||
| 01 Feb 2004 | LMC vs U2 started a two week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Take Me To The Clouds Above.' Based on the guitar riff from U2's classic song 'With Or Without You'. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Feb 2009 | The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly LGBT head of government. | |||
| 01 Feb 2009 | Lily Allen started a three week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Fear', the singers second UK No.1. | |||
| 01 Feb 2009 | Bruce Springsteen started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Working on a Dream' his 16th studio album. | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Feb 2014 | Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930) | |||
| 01 Feb 2014 | Rene Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic (b. 1946) | |||
| 01 Feb 2014 | Vasily Petrov, Russian marshal (b. 1917) | |||
| 01 Feb 2014 | Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938) | |||
| 01 Feb 2014 | A new report found that about two-thirds of people were left with ringing in their ears after a night out at a club, gig or pub. | |||
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