Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 1
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February 1: Imbolc (Northern Hemisphere)
- 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn was signed, ending the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
- 1814 – The most destructive eruption of the Mayon Volcano occurred, killing over 2,000 people on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
- 1960 – Four African American students staged the first Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter (pictured) in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1972 – Kuala Lumpur gained city status, the first settlement in Malaysia to do so after the nation's independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1981 – Senegal and the Gambia formed the Senegambia Confederation.
- 2001 – The Timor Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-Indonesian independence movement Falintil.