Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 1

This is a list of selected February 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  STS-107 launch
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  STS-107 Crew
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  Insignia of the Final Mission of Columbia
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  West facade of the United States Supreme Court Building
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  Lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins
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  First Wankel engine at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, Germany
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  Trygve Lie
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  King Edward III of England
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  Ruhollah Khomeini
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  The Shard, London
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  Mayon
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  Skyline of Kuala Lumpur

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
LGBT History Month begins in Hungary and the United Kingdom;	refimprove sesction
1790 – The Supreme Court of the United States, the highest judicial body in the U.S. and the head of the judicial branch of the federal government, first convened at the Merchants' Exchange Building in New York City.	refimprove section
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark to York, which was judged to be less vulnerable to attack by the United States.	refimprove section
1884 – The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary, a 352-page volume that covered words from A to ant, was published.	Too much uncited
1946 – As a result of a compromise between the major powers within the United Nations, Norwegian politician Trygve Lie was elected as its first Secretary-General.	lots of CN tags
1964 – "I Want to Hold Your Hand" became The Beatles' first number-one single in the United States.	lots of CN tags
1968 – The Government of Canada merged the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a unified structure, the Canadian Armed Forces.	refimprove section
1968 – American photographer Eddie Adams took his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of Viet Cong prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém's summary execution.	maintenance tags: {Contradiction inline} {Failed verification} {Unreliable source inline}
1982 – Senegal and the Gambia formed the Senegambia Confederation to promote cooperation between the two countries.	lots of CN tags
1991 – On final approach to Los Angeles International Airport, USAir Flight 1493 collided with a smaller aircraft and caught fire, killing 34 people.	refimprove
2001 – The capital of Malaysia was moved from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya, although the government's legislative functions remained in the former Federal Territory.	Putrajaya: refimprove
2013 – The Shard, located in Southwark, London, and the tallest building in the European Union, opened to the public.	trivia
Ștefan Luchian |b|1868|	Birthday not cited
N. D. Cocea |d|1949|	Deathday not cited
Ed Koch |d|2013	too many {cn} tags (>10)

Eligible

• 1327 – Fourteen-year-old Edward III was crowned King of England, but with the country ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
• 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn was signed, ending the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
• 1662 – Sino-Dutch conflicts: The Dutch East India Company's rule in Taiwan ended after a siege by the Ming loyalist Koxinga.
• 1896 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, eventually becoming one of the most frequently performed operas internationally.
• 1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, began broadcasting to Germany during World War II.
• 1957 – Invented by German engineer Felix Wankel, the first working prototype of the Wankel rotary engine ran for the first time at the research and development department of NSU Motorenwerke AG.
• 1960 – Four African American students staged the first Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• 1972 – Kuala Lumpur (pictured), the capital of Malaysia, was granted city status.
• 1978 – After having served 42 days in prison for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before the formal sentencing hearing.
• 1985 – Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashed shortly after takeoff from Minsk National Airport, killing fifty-eight people on board.
• 2001 – The Timor Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-Indonesian independence movement Falintil.
• 2003 – All seven crew members aboard Space Shuttle Columbia were killed when the orbiter disintegrated over Texas during reentry.
• 2012 – Following an Egyptian Premier League match in Port Said, Al Masry fans rioted and violently attacked Al Ahly supporters, resulting in 74 deaths.
• 2021 – The Burmese military staged the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which deposed the democratically-elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, and sparked nationwide protests and a civil war.

• Born/died this day: | Alexios I of Trebizond |d|1222| Francesco Maria Veracini |b|1690| Thomas Campbell |b|1763| Erik Adolf von Willebrand |b|1870| Clara Butt |b|1872| Stanley Matthews |b|1915| Hassan Al-Turabi |b|1932 Michelle Akers |b|1966| George Whipple |d|1976| Wojdan Shaherkani |b|1996

Notes

• Space Shuttle Challenger disaster/STS-51L appear on January 28, so Columbia should not appear in the same year.
• John Marshall appears on January 31, so US Supreme Court should not appear in the same year.
• Iranian Revolution appears on February 11, so Ruhollah Khomeini should not appear in the same year.

February 1: Imbolc / Saint Brigid's Day in Ireland; the Fajr decade begins in Iran; Black History Month begins in Canada and the United States

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

• 1329 – The Teutonic Knights successfully besieged the hillfort of Medvėgalis in Samogitia, Lithuania, and baptised the defenders in the Catholic rite.
• 1814 – More than 1,200 people died in the most destructive recorded eruption of Mayon in the Philippines.
• 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty.
• 2009 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Iceland.

• Menas of Ethiopia (d. 1563)
• Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (d. 1761)
• Mary Shelley (d. 1851)
• Harry Styles (b. 1994)

More anniversaries:

• January 31
• February 1
• February 2