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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1: Imbolc (Imbolg, Saint
Brigid's Day [Irish: La Fheile Bride; Scottish Gaelic: La Fheill
Brighde; Manx: Laa'l Breeshey]): -- The Gaelic traditional
festival that marks the beginning of spring, and for Christians a
the feast day of Saint Brigid, Ireland's matron saint, is
observed, about halfway between the winter solstice and the spring
equinox. Historically, its traditions were widely observed
throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Imbolc is one of
the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with: Bealtaine,
Lughnasadh and Samhain. Imbolc is mentioned in early Irish
literature, and some evidence suggests it was also an important
date in ancient times. It is believed that Imbolc was originally a
pagan festival associated with the lambing season and the goddess
Brigid. Historians suggest that the saint and her feast day are
Christianizations of these. The customs of St Brigid's Day did not
begin to be recorded in detail until the early modern era. In
recent centuries, its traditions have included weaving Brigid's
crosses, which are hung over doors and windows for protection
against fire, illness and evil spirits. People also made a doll of
Brigid (a Brideog), which was paraded from house-to-house by
girls, sometimes accompanied by 'strawboys'. Brigid was said to
visit one's home on St Brigid's Eve. To receive her blessings,
people would make a bed for Brigid, leave her food and drink, and
set items of clothing outside for her to bless. Holy wells would
be visited, a special meal would be had, and it was traditionally
a time for weather divination. Although many of its traditions
died out in the 20th century, it is still observed by some
Christians as a religious holiday and by some non-Christians as a
cultural one, and its customs have been revived in some places.
Since the latter 20th century, Celtic neopagans and Wiccans have
observed Imbolc as a religious holiday. From 2023, "Imbolc/St
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1: National Serpent Day: -- A
national day of observance that gives snakes and serpents alike
their slithering due. Across religions and cultures, the serpent
has been used as a symbol of evil, angels (both celestial and
fallen), medicine, fertility, and much more. Over 3,000 species of
snakes populate the Earth. The world's smallest snake is the
Barbados thread snake. This serpent is smaller than a nightcrawler
at about 4 inches. In comparison, the longest snake is the
reticulated python and the heaviest is the green anaconda. Only
1/8 of the known species are venomous. While many snakes may be
small, their upper and lower jaws separate. This ability allows
snakes to consume prey up to three times larger than the diameter
of their head. Snakes eat their prey whole. Most snakes are
nocturnal. As creepy as their flicking tongue seems, they use it
to smell the air. Snakes are cold-blooded, or ectotherms, and must
sun themselves to regulate their body temperatures. While most
snakes lay eggs, some give live birth. From anti-tumor treatments
to antibacterial properties, snake venom has been studied for
medical purposes for many years. To celebrate National Serpent
Day, visit a zoo or herpetarium to view snakes from a variety of
locations; read about serpents, their habitats, and their life
cycle; watch a documentary or movie featuring snakes; create a
blog post or podcast about snakes; share your experiences with
snakes; study the snakes in your area; visit the National Day
Calendar Classroom pages for activities surrounding National
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1: Black History Day (National
Freedom Day): -- February 1, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln signs
and thereby enacts the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude, except
as punishment for a crime. It was the first of the three
Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil
War. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864,
and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified
by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. On December
18, 1865, Secretary Of State William H. Seward proclaimed its
adoption. National Freedom Day, the celebration of the enactment
of the Thirteenth Amendment, was founded by Richard R. Wright, a
former slave, U.S. Army Major, educator, college president,
politician, civil rights advocate and banking entrepreneur. In
1941, Richard Robert Wright, Sr. invited national and local
leaders to meet in Philadelphia to formulate plans to set aside
February 1 each year to memorialize the February 1, 1865 signing
of the 13th Amendment. At that meeting, they accordingly formed
the National Freedom Day Association. One year after Wright's
death in 1947, both houses of the U.S. Congress passed a bill to
make February 1 National Freedom Day. The holiday proclamation was
signed into law on June 30, 1948, by President Harry Truman as the
first official annual National Freedom Day. It was the forerunner
to Black History Day and later Black History Month, officially
recognized in 1976, though began by Carter G. Woodson in 1926. To
observe National Freedom Day, reflect on the freedoms found in the
United States; attend a National Freedom Day ceremony; read about
or watch a documentary about the 13th Amendment; visit an art
gallery or museum displaying pieces inspired by the 13th
Amendment; attend a forum or lecture to discuss the 13th Amendment
and its impact, then and now; read the 13th Amendment in its
entirety; teach someone about the 13th Amendment; write about or
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February 1: Black History Month (African
American History Month, African American Heritage Month): -- The
first day of Black History Month is observed, an annual observance
originating in the United States. It has received official
recognition from governments in the United States and Canada, and
more recently has been observed in Ireland, the Netherlands, and
the United Kingdom. It began as a way of remembering important
people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is
celebrated in February in the United States and Canada, while in
Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom it is observed in
October. African American History Month is a vibrant celebration
that highlights the rich cultural aspects of African Americans.
This month-long observance recognizes the impact of African
American culture on various aspects of American life, including
art, music, literature, and cuisine. It's a time for everyone to
learn and appreciate the diverse and profound influence that
African Americans have had on shaping the nation's history and
identity! This celebration honors the achievements and
contributions of African Americans throughout history. It's a
moment to reflect on the struggles and triumphs of past
generations, acknowledging their perseverance and impact on
society. This month emphasizes the importance of understanding
African American history as an integral part of American history.
Through this recognition, we honor those who have fought for
equality and justice, inspiring future generations to continue the
journey toward a more inclusive and equitable society. Black
History Month is not just about looking back; it's about fostering
a more inclusive future. The celebration encourages a deeper
appreciation of cultural diversity and promotes understanding and
respect among different communities. It's a reminder of the
ongoing efforts to achieve equality and the importance of
continuing to support and uplift African American voices and
stories in all areas of life. Black History Month started as a
week-long celebration known as "Negro History Week" in
1926. Carter G. Woodson, a prominent African American historian,
launched this initiative to emphasize the significant
contributions of African Americans to U.S. history, which were
often overlooked. A week in February was chosen to honor the
birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both
influential figures in the fight against slavery. In 1976, during
the United States bicentennial, the celebration expanded to a
month. This change allowed more time for educational activities
and events to highlight African American achievements and culture.
Since then, every president has endorsed February as Black History
Month. This month-long observance encourages schools, communities,
and institutions to organize events and share knowledge about
African American history. Black History Month recognizes and
honors the rich cultural heritage and contributions of African
Americans. It provides an opportunity for reflection, education,
and celebration of the diverse stories and accomplishments that
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1793: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The
French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars (The Great French War)
(The French Revolutionary Wars, The Napoleonic Wars): The
Napoleonic Wars: The Coalition Wars: The War Of The First
Coalition: -- France declares war on the United Kingdom and the
Netherlands, bringing them into the War Of The First Coalition.
The War of the First Coalition is the traditional name of the wars
that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797 against
initially the Kingdom of the French and then the French Republic
that succeeded it. They were only lightly allied and fought
without much apparent coordination or agreement; each power had
its eye on a different part of France it wanted to appropriate
after a French defeat, which never occurred. As early as 1791, the
other monarchies of Europe looked with outrage at the revolution
and its upheavals, and considered whether they should intervene,
either in support of King Louis XVI, or to prevent the spread of
revolution, or to take advantage of the chaos in France.
Anticipating an attack, France declared war on Prussia and Austria
in the spring of 1792, and on the United Kingdom and the
Netherlands on February 1, 1793. The French Revolutionary Wars
were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792
until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted
France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia and several
other monarchies. They are divided in two periods: the War of the
First Coalition (1792-97) and the War of the Second Coalition
(1798-1802). Initially confined to Europe, the fighting gradually
assumed a global dimension. After a decade of constant warfare and
aggressive diplomacy, France had conquered a wide array of
territories, from the Italian Peninsula and the Low Countries in
Europe to the Louisiana Territory in North America. French success
in these conflicts ensured the spread of revolutionary principles
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! John Ford,
American film director, US Navy Commander (active) and Rear
Admiral (reserve), head of the photographic unit for the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS), widely regarded as one of the most
important and influential filmmakers of his generation (d. August
31, 1973) is #born John Martin Feeney in Cape Elizabeth, Maine; he
later often gave his given names as Sean Aloysius, sometimes with
surname O'Feeny or O Fearna; an Irish language equivalent of
Feeney. Ford's work was held in high regard by his colleagues,
with Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman among those who have named
him one of the greatest directors of all time. John "Jack"
Ford is renowned both for Westerns such as Stagecoach (1939), The
Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), as
well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such
as the film The Grapes Of Wrath (1940). His four Academy Awards
for Best Director (in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952) remain a record.
One of the films for which he won the award, How Green Was My
Valley, also won Best Picture. During World War II, Commander John
Ford, USNR, served in the United States Navy and as head of the
photographic unit for the Office of Strategic Services, made
documentaries for the Navy Department. He won two more Academy
Awards during this time, one for the semi-documentary The Battle
of Midway (1942), and a second for the propaganda film December
7th: The Movie (1943). Commander Ford was a veteran of the Battle
of Midway, where he was wounded in the arm by shrapnel while
filming the Japanese attack from the power plant of Sand Island on
Midway. John Ford died of cancer at his home in Palm Desert,
California, aged 79. His funeral was held on September 5 at
Hollywood's Church of the Blessed Sacrament. He is interred in
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1894: #BOTD: #HBD! James P.
Johnson, African American pianist and composer (d. November 17,
1955) is #born James Price Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey. A
pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists
in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of
the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was
eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count
Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his
student. Johnson composed many hit songs, including "Carolina
Shout" and the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties,
"The Charleston", and he remained the acknowledged king
of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's
artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to
musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been
referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible
Pianist." James P. Johnson died in Jamaica, Queens, New York
City of a stroke sustained in 1951 that forced his retirement,
aged 61. He is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens
County, New York. Unmarked since his death in 1955, his grave was
re-consecrated in 2009 with a headstone paid for with funds raised
by an event arranged by the James P. Johnson Foundation, Spike
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February 1, 1901: #BOTD: #HBD! Clark
Gable, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or
just simply as "The King", American actor, singer, film
director, film producer and soldier (d. November 16, 1960) is
#born William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio. Clark Gable began his
career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films
between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a
few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931. The next year, he
landed his first leading Hollywood role and over the next three
decades he became a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures.
Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One
Night (1934), and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the
Bounty (1935) and for his best-known role as Rhett Butler in the
epic Civil War drama Gone with the Wind (1939). Gable also found
success commercially and critically with films such as Red Dust
(1932), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), San Francisco (1936), Saratoga
(1937) Boom Town (1940), The Hucksters (1947), Homecoming (1948),
and The Misfits (1961), which was his final screen appearance.
Gable appeared opposite some of the most popular actresses of the
time. Joan Crawford was his favorite actress to work with, and she
was partnered with Gable in eight films. Myrna Loy worked with him
seven times, and he was paired with Jean Harlow in six
productions. He also starred with Lana Turner in four features,
and with Norma Shearer and Ava Gardner in three each. Gable's
final film, The Misfits (1961), united him with Marilyn Monroe
(also in her last completed screen appearance). Gable is
considered one of the most consistent box-office performers in
history, appearing on Quigley Publishing's annual Top Ten Money
Making Stars Poll 16 times. He was named the seventh-greatest male
star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.
Clark Gable died at the age of 59 from a heart attack caused by an
infection, the second heart attack in nine days. Medical staff did
not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation for fear that the
procedure would rupture Gable's heart, and a defibrillator was not
available. Gable is interred in the Great Mausoleum, Memorial
Terrace, at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park next to Carole
Lombard and her mother. An honor guard and pallbearers Spencer
Tracy and James Stewart were in attendance. Twenty-two years later
his fifth and final wife Kay Gable died and was interred there as
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February 1, 1902: #BOTD: #HBD! Langston
Hughes, African American poet, social activist, novelist,
playwright, and columnist (d. May 22, 1967) is #born James Mercer
Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest
innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New
York City. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro
was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when
Harlem was in vogue". His writing experiments began when he
was young. While in grammar school in Lincoln, Hughes was elected
class poet. He stated that in retrospect he thought it was because
of the stereotype about African Americans having rhythm: "I
was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids
in the whole class and our English teacher was always stressing
the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everyone knows, except
us, that all Negroes have rhythm, so they elected me as class
poet." Langston Hughes died in the Stuyvesant Polyclinic in
New York City at the age of 66 from complications after abdominal
surgery related to prostate cancer. His ashes are interred beneath
a floor medallion in the middle of the foyer in the Schomburg
Center For Research In Black Culture in Harlem, it being the
entrance to an auditorium named for him. The design on the floor
is an African cosmogram entitled Rivers. The title is taken from
his poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". Within the center
of the cosmogram is the line: "My soul has grown deep like
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February 1, 1935: Premieres: Film
Premieres: -- The first episode of The March Of Time, an American
newsreel series sponsored by Time Inc. and shown in movie theaters
from 1935 to 1951, is first released to theaters, entitled
"Saionji/Speakeasy Street/Belisha Beacons/Moe Buchsbaum/Fred
Perkins/Metropolitan Opera". The March Of Time was based on a
radio news series broadcast from 1931 to 1945. The voice of both
series was Westbrook Van Voorhis. Produced and written by Louis de
Rochemont and his brother Richard de Rochemont, The March of Time
was recognized with an Academy Honorary Award in 1937. The March
of Time organization also produced four feature films for
theatrical release, and created documentary series for early
television. Its first TV series, Crusade in Europe (1949),
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February 1, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Don
Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly
Brothers) (d. August 21, 2021) is #born Isaac Donald Everly in
Brownie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The Everly Brothers were an
American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for
steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.
Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly and Phillip
"Phil" Jason Everly, the duo was raised in a musical
family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father
Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family"
in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they
gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet
Atkins, who began to groom them for national attention. They began
writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit
song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit No. 1 in the spring of
1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them
written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie",
"All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems".
In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and
recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers
themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers
enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and
their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued
through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love
Should Be)" being their last top-10 hit. Long-simmering
disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music, which
managed the group, a growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as
changing tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in
popularity in its native U.S., though the brothers continued to
release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada, and had many highly
successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the
brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they
officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back
together, and would continue to perform periodically until Phil's
death in 2014. The group was highly influential on the music of
the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s
were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic
guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the
Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. Rolling Stone
ranked the Everly Brothers No. 1 on its list of the 20 Greatest
Duos of All Time. They were inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall
Of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986, and into the
Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the
Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, earning the
organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm
guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit "Wake Up Little
Susie". Don Everly died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee,
aged 84. His remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered
in The Green River, a 384-mile-long (618 km) tributary of the Ohio
River that rises in Lincoln County in south central Kentucky.
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February 1, 1942: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): United States Government Propaganda Organizations:
Voice Of America (VOA): -- Voice Of America, the official external
radio and television service of the United States government,
begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the
Axis powers. Even before the December 1941 Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government's Office of the Coordinator of
Information (COI) had already begun providing war news and
commentary to the commercial American shortwave radio stations for
use on a voluntary basis, through its Foreign Information Service
(FIS) headed by playwright Robert E. Sherwood, who served as
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech writer and
information advisor. Direct programming began a week after the
United States' entry into World War II in December 1941, with the
first broadcast from the San Francisco office of the FIS via
General Electric's KGEI transmitting to the Philippines in English
(other languages followed). During this time, Frank Shozo Baba
(January 3, 1915 - January 16, 2008) became involved, a Japanese
American Nisei who made radio broadcasts during World War II in
the United States and in post-war Japan. He spent twelve years in
Japan from the age of six months; another six years from age 29,
and four and half years from age 46. He was a member of Voice of
America under the Office of War Information in June 1942, as well
as in 1952 and 1960. He was well known for his contributions to
the Japanese broadcasting industry after World War II at NHK under
the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (GHQ) and in initiating
commercial broadcasting in Japan. The next step was to broadcast
to Germany, which was called Stimmen aus Amerika ("Voices
from America") and was transmitted on February 1, 1942. It
was introduced by the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and
included the pledge: "Today, and every day from now on, we
will be with you from America to talk about the war... The news
may be good or bad for us - We will always tell you the truth."
Roosevelt approved this broadcast, which then-Colonel William J.
Donovan (COI) and Sherwood (FIS) had recommended to him. It was
Sherwood who actually coined the term "The Voice of America"
to describe the shortwave network that began its transmissions on
February 1, from 270 Madison Avenue in New York City. The Office
of War Information, when organized in the middle of 1942,
officially took over VOA's operations. VOA reached an agreement
with the British Broadcasting Corporation to share medium-wave
transmitters in Great Britain, and expanded into Tunis in North
Africa and Palermo and Bari, Italy, as the Allies captured these
territories. The OWI also set up the American Broadcasting Station
in Europe. Asian transmissions started with one transmitter in
California in 1941; services were expanded by adding transmitters
in Hawaii and, after recapture, the Philippines. By the end of the
war, VOA had 39 transmitters and provided service in 40 languages.
Programming was broadcast from production centers in New York and
San Francisco, with more than 1,000 programs originating from New
York. Programming consisted of music, news, commentary, and relays
of U.S. domestic programming, in addition to specialized VOA
programming. About half of VOA's services, including the Arabic
service, were discontinued in 1945. In late 1945, VOA was
transferred to the US Department of State. Also included among the
cultural diplomacy programming on the Columbia Broadcasting System
was the musical show Viva America (1942-49) which featured the Pan
American Orchestra and the artistry of several noted musicians
from both North and South America, including Alfredo Antonini,
Juan Arvizu, Eva Garza, Elsa Miranda, Nestor Mesta Chaires, Miguel
Sandoval, John Serry Sr., and Terig Tucci. By 1945, broadcasts of
the show were carried by 114 stations on CBS's "La Cadena de
las Americas" network in 20 Latin American nations. These
broadcasts proved to be highly successful in supporting President
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February 1, 1942: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
American Carrier Raids Of 1942: The Marshalls-Gilberts Raids: --
The first offensive action by the United States against Japanese
forces in the Pacific Theater occurs when two separate U.S.
carrier task forces under the overall command of Vice Admiral
William Halsey Jr -- Task Force 17 (TF 17), commanded by Rear
Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher and centered on the carrier USS
Yorktown, and Task Force 8 (TF 8), commanded by Halsey and
centered on the carrier USS Enterprise -- conduct The
Marshalls-Gilberts Raids, tactical airstrikes and naval artillery
attacks by United States Navy aircraft carrier and other warship
forces against Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) garrisons in the
Marshall and Gilbert Islands, the first of six American raids
against Japanese-held territories conducted in the first half of
1942. The Japanese garrisons were under the overall command of
Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue, commander of the 4th Fleet.
Japanese aircraft in the islands belonged to the IJN's 24th Air
Flotilla under Rear Admiral Eiji Goto. The U.S. warship forces
were under the overall command of Vice Admiral William Halsey Jr.
The air raids were carried out by TF 17 attacked Jaluit, Mili, and
Makin (Butaritari) islands inflicted moderate damage to the
Japanese naval installations on the islands and destroyed three
aircraft, while seven Yorktown aircraft were lost (4 TBD
Devastators, 3 SBD Dauntlesses), as well as an SOC Seagull
floatplane from USS Louisville, one of TF 17's cruisers. The air
raids were carried out by TF 8 struck Kwajalein, Wotje, and Taroa;
at the same time, cruisers and destroyers bombarded Wotje and
Taroa. The strikes inflicted light to moderate damage on the three
islands' naval garrisons, sank three small warships and damaged
several others, including the light cruiser Katori, and destroyed
15 Japanese aircraft. The heavy cruiser USS Chester was hit and
slightly damaged by a Japanese aerial bomb, the Enterprise caught
fire after a near miss by a bomb, and six Enterprise aircraft -
five SBD Dauntless dive bombers and one F4F Wildcat fighter - were
lost. Additionally, a float plane from USS Salt Lake City was
damaged during recovery and was abandoned and sunk. TF 8 and TF 17
retired from the area immediately upon completion of the raids.
The raids had little long-term strategic impact. The IJN briefly
sent two aircraft carriers to chase TF 8 and TF 17 but quickly
abandoned the pursuit and continued their support for the ongoing
successful conquests of the Philippines and Netherlands East
Indies. The raids, however, did help lift the morale of the U.S.
Navy and the American public, still reeling from the Pearl Harbor
attack and the loss of Wake Island. The raids also provided
valuable experience in carrier air operations, which hardened the
U.S. carrier groups for future combat against Japanese forces. On
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Terry
Jones, Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director,
historian, medievalist and member of the Monty Python comedy team
(d. January 21, 2020) is #born Terence Graham Parry Jones in the
seaside town of Colwyn Bay, on the north coast of Wales, the son
of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George
Parry-Jones, a bank clerk. The family home was named Bodchwil. As
he recalled in The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons, he was
"born right bang slap in the middle of World War Two,"
while his father served with the Royal Air Force in Scotland. A
week after he was born, his father was posted in India as a Flight
Lieutenent. He had a brother, Nigel, two years his senior. He
reunited with his father after four years, as the war ended; of
their first meeting at Colwyn Bay train station he recollected:
"I'd only ever been kissed by the smooth lips of a lady up
until that point, so his bristly moustache was quite disturbing!"
When Jones was four and a half, the family moved to Claygate,
Surrey, England. After graduating from Oxford University with a
degree in English, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin wrote
and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes,
including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before
creating Monty Python's Flying Circus with Cambridge graduates
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle and American
animator-filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Jones was largely responsible
for the programme's innovative, surreal structure, in which
sketches flowed from one to the next without the use of punch
lines. He made his directorial debut with the Python film Holy
Grail, which he co-directed with Gilliam, and also directed the
subsequent Python films Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life.
Jones co-created and co-wrote with Palin the anthology series
Ripping Yarns. He also wrote an early draft of Jim Henson's film
Labyrinth, though little of his work remained in the final cut.
Jones was a well-respected medieval historian, having written
several books and presented television documentaries about the
period, as well as a prolific children's book author. In 2016,
Jones received a Lifetime Achievement award at the BAFTA Cymru
Awards for his outstanding contribution to television and film.
After living for several years with a degenerative aphasia, he
gradually lost the ability to speak and died in 2020 from
complications of frontotemporal dementia, 11 days short of his
78th birthday, at his home in Highgate, North London. His family
and close friends remembered him with a humanist funeral ceremony.
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1943: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific
War): The History Of Asian Americans: The History Of Japanese
Americans: The Internment Of Japanese Americans: United States
Armed Forces: The 442nd Infantry Regiment: -- The 442nd Infantry
Regiment, one of the most decorated units for its size in U.S.
military history, is created as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
(Japanese: Dai Yonhyakuyonjuni Rentai Sentodan). The 442nd
Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States
Army. The regiment is best known as the most decorated in U.S.
military history and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely
of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry
(Nisei) who fought in World War II. Beginning in 1944, the
regiment fought primarily in the European Theatre, in particular
Italy, southern France, and Germany. The 442nd Regimental Combat
Team (RCT) was organized on March 23, 1943, in response to the War
Department's call for volunteers to form the segregated Japanese
American army combat unit. More than 12,000 Nisei
(second-generation Japanese American) volunteers answered the
call. Ultimately 2,686 from Hawaii and 1,500 from mainland U.S.
internment camps assembled at Camp Shelby, Mississippi in April
1943 for a year of infantry training. Many of the soldiers from
the continental U.S. had families in internment camps while they
fought abroad. The unit's motto was "Go for Broke". The
442nd Regiment is the most decorated unit in U.S. military
history. Created as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the unit
quickly grew to its fighting complement of about 4,000 men by
April 1943, and an eventual total of about 10,000 men served in
the combined 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd RCT. The combined
units earned, in less than two years, more than 4,000 Purple
Hearts and 4,000 Bronze Star Medals. The unit was awarded seven
Presidential Unit Citations (seven between 1944 and 1946, five
earned in one month). Twenty-one of its members were awarded the
Medal of Honor. In 2010, Congress approved the granting of the
Congressional Gold Medal to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and
associated units who served during World War II, and in 2012, all
surviving members were made chevaliers of the French Legion
d'Honneur for their actions contributing to the liberation of
France and their heroic rescue of the Lost Battalion. Arriving in
the European Theatre, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, with its
second and third infantry battalions, one artillery battalion and
associated HQ and service companies, was attached to the 34th
Infantry Division. On 11 June 1944, near Civitavecchia, Italy, the
100th Infantry Battalion, another all-Nisei fighting unit which
had already been in combat since September 1943, was transferred
from the 133rd Infantry Regiment to the 442nd Regimental Combat
Team. Because of its combat record, the 100th was allowed to keep
their original designation as the 100th Infantry Battalion. The
related 522nd Field Artillery Battalion liberated at least one of
the satellite labor camps of Dachau concentration camp and saved
survivors of a death march near Waakirchen. The 442nd RCT was
inactivated in 1946 and reactivated as a reserve battalion in
1947, garrisoned at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. The 442nd lives on
through the 100th Battalion/442nd Infantry Regiment, and is the
only current infantry formation in the Army Reserve. More
information about the current 100th Battalion/442nd Infantry
Regiment and its current alignment with the active 25th Infantry
Division, the reserve 9th Mission Support Command, and its combat
duty in the Vietnam War and the Iraq War can be found at 100th
Infantry Battalion (United States). The 100th/442nd's current
members carry on the honors and traditions of the historical unit.
In recognition of its storied combat record, the 100th/442nd was
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February 1, 1946: The United Nations: The
History Of The United Nations: Secretary-Generals Of The United
Nations (UNSGs, SGs, SecGens): -- Trygve Lie of Norway is picked
to be the first United Nations Secretary-General. Trygve Lie,
Norwegian trade union leader and politician, 1st Secretary-General
of the United Nations (July 16, 1896 - December 30, 1968) was born
Trygve Halvdan Lie in Kristiania (now Oslo) in Sweden-Norway (now
Oslo, Norway). Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician,
labour leader, government official and author. He served as
Norwegian Foreign minister during the critical years of the
Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945. From
1946 to 1952 he was the first Secretary-General of the United
Nations. Lie earned a reputation as a pragmatic, determined
politician. Trygve Lie died of a heart attack in Geilo, Norway,
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1954: #BOTD: #HBD! Bill Mumy,
American actor and musician and a figure in the science-fiction
community/comic book fandom, is #born Charles William Mumy Jr. in
San Gabriel, California. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a
child actor, when he was credited as Billy Mumy -- an era which
included his appearing on television in The Twilight Zone and
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and on film in Dear Brigitte, followed
by an iconic three-season role as Will Robinson in the 1960s CBS
sci-fi series Lost in Space. He later appeared as lonely teenager
Sterling North in the Disney film Rascal (1969) and Teft in the
film Bless the Beasts and Children (1971). In the 1990s, he
performed the role of Lennier in all five seasons of the
syndicated sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 and narrated A & E
Network's Emmy Award-winning series Biography. Mumy is also known
for his musical career as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and
composer: he is an Emmy nominee for original music in Adventures
in Wonderland (1991). As a musician Mumy performs as a solo
artist, an occasional guest performer, and as half of the Bill
Mumy/Miguel Ferrer duo of Barnes & Barnes. From 1988 through
the 90s he performed at the San Diego Comic-Con and other comics
related events as part of the band Seduction of the Innocent
(named after the book by Fredric Wertham) along with Miguel
Ferrer, Steve Leialoha, Max Allan Collins and John "Chris"
Christensen. The band released one CD, The Golden Age. On Sale @
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1960: The American Civil
Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States:
Discrimination: The Sit-In Movement (The Sit-In Campaign, The
Student Sit-In Movement): The Greensboro Sit-Ins: -- In
Greensboro, North Carolina, four African American students known
as The Greensboro Four - David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell A.
Blair, Jr., and Joseph McNeil - sat down and ordered coffee at a
lunch counter in Woolworths. They were refused service, but did
not leave. Instead, they waited all day. The scene was repeated
over the next few days, with protests spreading to other southern
states, resulting in the arrest of over 1,600 persons but which
ultimately led to the Woolworth department store chain removing
its policy of racial segregation in the American South. While not
the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro
sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known
sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement. They are considered a
catalyst to the subsequent sit-in movement. These sit-ins led to
increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history.
The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina,
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1964: Aesthetics: The
Performing Arts: Music: Music History: The History Of Rock And
Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll,
Rock N' Roll): British Rock And Roll (British Rock & Roll,
British Rock-N-Roll, British Rock 'N' Roll, British Rock 'N Roll,
British Rock N' Roll): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of The United
Kingdom: Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N'
Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): Concerts: British Rock (Beat
Music, British Beat, Merseybeat): The Swinging Sixties: Music Of
The United Kingdom: Rock And Roll (Rock & Roll, Rock-N-Roll,
Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll): The British Invasion:
Concerts: The Beatles: Beatlemania: -- The Beatles have their
first number one hit in the United States with "I Want To
Hold Your Hand". Recorded on October 17, 1963, it was
released by in the United Kingdom on November 29, 1963. Written by
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it was the first Beatles record to
be made using four-track equipment. With advance orders exceeding
one million copies in the United Kingdom, "I Want to Hold
Your Hand" would have gone straight to the top of the British
record charts on its day of release had it not been blocked by the
group's first million-seller "She Loves You", their
previous UK single, which was having a resurgence of popularity
following intense media coverage of the group. Taking two weeks to
dislodge its predecessor, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
stayed at number one for five weeks and remained in the UK top 50
for 21 weeks in total. It was also the group's first American
number-one hit, entering the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January
18, 1964 at number 45 and starting the British Invasion of the
American music industry. By February 1 it topped the Hot 100, and
stayed there for seven weeks before being replaced by "She
Loves You". It remained on the Billboard chart for 15 weeks.
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" became the Beatles'
best-selling single worldwide, selling more than 12 million
copies. In 2018, Billboard magazine named it the 48th biggest hit
of all time on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, it was the second
highest selling single of the 1960s, behind "She Loves You".
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1965: The American Civil
Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Racial
Segregation: Black Suffrage (Black Political Franchise, Black
Franchise, Black Right To Vote, Black Active Suffrage): Civil
Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: The
Selma To Montgomery Marches: The Selma Voting Rights Campaign: --
In Alabama's Dallas County and Perry County, 700 students and
adults, including SCLC leaders Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy
and James Orange, are arrested. Dr. King had decided to make a
conscious effort to get arrested, for the benefit of publicity.
Accordingly, and Ralph Abernathy refused to cooperate with Selma
Police Chief William Baker's traffic directions on the way to the
courthouse, calculating that Baker would arrest them and putg them
in the Selma city jail run by Baker's police, rather than the
county jail run by notorious Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark's
deputies. Once processed, King and Abernathy refused to post bond.
On the same day, SCLC and SNCC organizers took the campaign
outside of Dallas County for the first time; in nearby Perry
County, where 700 students and adults, including James Orange,
were arrested. On the same day, students from Tuskegee Institute,
working in cooperation with SNCC, were arrested for acts of civil
disobedience in solidarity with the Selma campaign. In New York
and Chicago, Friends of SNCC chapters staged sit-ins at federal
buildings in support of Selma blacks, and CORE chapters in the
North and West also mounted protests. Solidarity pickets began
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1968: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The Tet Offensive: Phase 1 Of
The Tet Offensive: -- The day after Viet Cong guerrillas and
regular North Vietnames PAVN forces launched their surprise attack
on South Vietnamese and American targets throughout South Vietnam,
the attacks expand in scope as PAVN/VC forces follow up with
attacks on Bien Hoa, Long Thanh, Binh Duong in III Corps and Kien
Hoa, Dinh Tuong, Go Cong, Kien Giang, Vinh Binh, Ben Tre, and Kien
Tuong in IV Corps. The Tet Offensive was one of the largest
military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Officially called by the
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong "The General Offensive And
Uprising Of Tet Mau Than 1968", the Tet Offensive was
launched by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's
Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of
the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their
allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and
civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The
name of the offensive comes from the Tet holiday, the Vietnamese
New Year, when the first major attacks took place. The offensive
was launched prematurely in the late night hours of January 30 in
the I and II Corps Tactical Zones of South Vietnam. This early
attack allowed South Vietnamese and US forces some time to prepare
defensive measures. When the main North Vietnamese operation began
the next morning, the offensive was countrywide and well
coordinated; eventually more than 80,000 North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong troops struck more than 100 towns and cities, including 36 of
44 provincial capitals, five of the six autonomous cities, 72 of
245 district towns, and the southern capital. The offensive was
the largest military operation conducted by either side up to that
point in the war. Hanoi had launched the offensive in the belief
that the offensive would trigger a popular uprising leading to the
collapse of the South Vietnamese government. Although the initial
attacks stunned both the U.S. and South Vietnamese armies, causing
them to lose control of several cities temporarily, they quickly
regrouped, beat back the attacks, and inflicted heavy casualties
on North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces. The popular uprising
anticipated by Hanoi never eventuated. During the Battle of Hu?,
intense fighting lasted for a month, resulting in the destruction
of the city. During their occupation, the North Vietnamese
executed thousands of people in the Massacre at Hu?. Around the
U.S. combat base at Khe Sanh, fighting continued for two more
months. The offensive was a military defeat for North Vietnam
though General Westmoreland reported that defeating the North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong would require 200,000 more American
soldiers and activation of the reserves, prompting even loyal
supporters of the war to see that the current war strategy
required re-evaluation. The offensive had a strong effect on the
U.S. government and shocked the U.S. public, which had been led to
believe by its political and military leaders that the North
Vietnamese were being defeated and incapable of launching such an
ambitious military operation; American public support for the war
soon declined and the U.S. sought negotiations to end the war. On
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1968: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The
Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive: Phase 1 Of The Tet Offensive: --
#DOTD: The summary execution on a Saigon street by South
Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan of Viet Cong
Captain Nguyen Van Lem, who had allegedly murdered South
Vietnamese officer Nguyen Tuan as well as six members of Tuan's
family, is recorded on motion picture film by NBC cameraman Vo
Suu, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer. The
photograph and film of the execution of Lem, often referred to as
Bay Lop, became iconic images in contemporary American journalism,
and won Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
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Today, February 1, 2026
February 1, 1968: The American Civil
Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Racial
Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The
United States: The Memphis Sanitation Strike ( The Memphis
Sanitation Strike Of 1968): -- #DOTD: Two African American
sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, are crushed to
death in one of the city's outdated trucks, a tragedy that
ultimately resulted in The Memphis Sanitation Strike Of 1968
(February 12 - April 16, 1968). Memphis had no facilities for
Black workers to wash up, change clothes or get out of the rain.
Cole and Walker were sheltering from the rain inside the truck's
barrel when the compacting mechanism malfunctioned. The truck
hadn't been repaired because the city wouldn't spend money for
safety for these workers. Only as of 2018, after 50 years, did
their families receive their pension benefits. Many U.S. unions
held a national moment of silence this Feb. 1 to honor Cole and
Walker. On the first day of the Memphis strike, the Memphis
Press-Scimitar wrote: "The country has been astonished at the
garbage mess in New York, but it might have known that the trouble
there was catching. Memphis Public Works officials said flatly
that the trouble here was triggered by the developments which
brought the New York strikers pay increases." Jesse Epps, a
veteran labor organizer involved in the Memphis strike, commented
on the Memphis-New York connection. Epps, who was with Dr. King
when he was killed on April 4, spoke to a 2008 New York City
sanitation workers' meeting. The workers were celebrating being
the only NYC uniformed workers' union to negotiate and win a
Martin Luther King birthday holiday in their contract. Epps said:
"It was you who gave [the Memphis sanitation workers] the
courage to act. It was these men from New York, if I may use the
colloquialism, that fired the shot and made [the U.S.] stand up
and its conscience be pricked and compelled Dr. King and others
like him to come into the fray." (Workers World, Jan. 8,
2011). After the murder of Dr. King, oppressed communities in 110
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February 1: Chronology: Calendars: The
Months Of The Year: -- February begins, second month of the year
in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the latter being the most
widely used calendar in the world. Its length is 28 days except
during leap years when its length is 29 days. February is preceded
by the first month of the year, January, and is succeeded by the
third month of the year, March. February is the third and last
month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In the
Southern Hemisphere, February is the third and last month of
meteorological summer, being the seasonal equivalent of August in
the Northern Hemisphere. Having only 28 days in common years,
February is the only month of the year that can pass without a
single full moon. Using Coordinated Universal Time as the basis
for determining the date and time of a full moon, this last
happened in 2018 and will next happen in 2037. The same is true
regarding a new moon: again using Coordinated Universal Time as
the basis, this last happened in 2014 and will next happen in
2033. February is also the only month of the calendar that, at
intervals alternating between one of six years and two of eleven
years, has exactly four full 7-day weeks. In countries that start
their week on a Monday, it occurs as part of a common year
starting on Friday, in which February 1st is a Monday and the 28th
is a Sunday; the most recent occurrence was 2021, and the next one
will be 2027. In countries that start their week on a Sunday, it
occurs in a common year starting on Thursday; the most recent
occurrence was 2015 and the next occurrence will be 2026. The
pattern is broken by a skipped leap year, but no leap year has
been skipped since 1900 and no others will be skipped until 2100.
The Roman month Februarius was named after the Latin term februum,
which means "purification", via the purification ritual
Februa held on February 15 (full moon) in the old lunar Roman
calendar. February observances in Ancient Rome included Amburbium
(precise date unknown), Sementivae (February 2), Februa (February
13-15), Lupercalia (February 13-15), Parentalia (February 13-22),
Quirinalia (February 17), Feralia (February 21), Caristia
(February 22), Terminalia (February 23), Regifugium (February 24),
and Agonium Martiale (February 27). These days do not correspond
to the modern Gregorian calendar. February corresponds partly to
the month of Pluviose and partly to the month of Ventose of The
French Republican Calendar. February meteor showers include the
Alpha Centaurids (appearing in early February), the March
Virginids (lasting from February 14 to April 25, peaking around
March 20), the Delta Cancrids (appearing December 14 to February
14, peaking on January 17), the Omicron Centaurids (late January
through February, peaking in mid-February), Theta Centaurids
(January 23 - March 12, only visible in the southern hemisphere),
Eta Virginids (February 24 and March 27, peaking around March 18),
and Pi Virginids (February 13 and April 8, peaking between March 3
and March 9). February's birthstone is the amethyst, which
symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity.Its
birth flowers are the Violet (Viola), the Common Primrose (Primula
Vulgaris), and the Iris. Its zodiac signs are Aquarius (until
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1: National Dark Chocolate Day:
-- An annual reminder to indulge a little in a great bittersweet
favorite! Many tout dark chocolate as the healthier chocolate.
However, for some, it can be an acquired taste. Also known as
bittersweet chocolate, dark chocolate is different from milk
chocolate. Candy makers add milk or butter to milk chocolate,
giving it a creamier consistency. Dark chocolate includes no added
milk or butter. Instead, the percentage of cocoa solids remaining
in the chocolate determines how dark the chocolate is. The higher
the ratio, the darker the chocolate. It may also have a slightly
bitter taste. Chocolate comes from the seed of the tropical
Theobroma cacao tree. We have been cultivating cacao for at least
three millennia, and the plant grows in Mexico, Central America,
and Northern South America. Our earliest known documentation of
using cacao seeds dates to around 1100 BC. Fermentation helps
develop the flavor of the cacao seeds. Otherwise, the seeds are
too bitter to eat. Once fermented, the beans are dried, cleaned,
and roasted. After roasting, the shell is removed to produce cacao
nibs. Processors then ground the cocoa nips into cocoa mass, pure
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and mold it with or without other ingredients. At this point in
the process, it is called chocolate liquor. The chocolate liquor
may then be processed into two components: cocoa solids and cocoa
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1: Holiday Hugs Day: -- A day on
which Atlanta Blood Services thanks all of the donors who
participated in blood donation campaigns during the busy holiday
season, on Christmas and New Year. These donors are usually people
who have kept the habit of donating their platelets on a
four-month streak the year before and continue to donate routinely
to the blood bank. Platelets are cells within the human blood that
help the body fight infections and diseases and are one of the
main operators of the immune system. Blood is one of the most
important body fluids we have. It's the fluid that helps transport
oxygen to all the cells in the body and allows the circulatory
system to work smoothly. While the heart pumps it so it reaches
all corners of the body, the lungs make sure that the cells get
oxygen and leave behind carbon dioxide, which is the toxic product
of the chemical exchange that distributes the oxygen to the body.
The arteries are where the oxygen-full blood runs, that's why
arterial blood is typically brighter, whereas the veins carry the
blood full of carbon dioxide, making venous blood darker. This is
usually the blood you see taken out for blood testing. Not only
does the blood help transport oxygen, but it also carries cells
that are important for our health. These are part of our immune
system, which helps keep our bodies healthy and heals infections
and scars naturally. The blood also carries many nutrients and
hormones, and also helps keep our body temperature in check. It is
made up of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and
platelets. The main component of blood needed by patients in need
of blood treatments for blood cancer or bone marrow transplants is
the platelets, which are cell fragments that react to bleeding by
clumping together to form a clot, which stops the bleeding.
Patients with Leukemia, for example, have a very low count of
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1: National Get Up Day: --
Life's journey is a series of stumbles and recoveries, teaching
the importance of resilience and the beauty of rising stronger.
Just like figure skaters, everyone in life will fall down at some
time or another. So while it might feel tempting to just stay
down, National Get Up Day is here to bring inspiration and
encouragement to get back up on those feet and try again. The
National Get Up campaign embraces the idea of being fearless even
in the face of falling down, which certainly comes as a vital part
of ice skating - whether it's a person's first time on skates or
professionals are learning to spin and turn! National Get Up Day
is celebrated during the dark and cold months of winter, which
perhaps works well as a reminder for those who struggle with some
winter blues or full-on seasonal affective disorder (SAD) that
it's best to just get up again whenever things are feeling down!
The origins of this day can be traced back to 2016 when the US
Figure Skating Association developed the campaign with the theme
"We all fall. It's how we get up that matters." The next
year, National Get Up Day became a part of the fabric of the
figure skating world as well as making its way into the general
public. And by 2018, National Get Up Day was growing in popularity
and was even celebrated just before the Winter Games held in South
Korea. Part of the concept for the Get Up campaign may have been
inspired by the famous American figure skater and 1984 Olympic
Gold medalist, Scott Hamilton. In an interview, Hamilton once
mentioned that he had calculated how many times he had fallen down
during skating, and the number he came up with was around 41,600
times. But the most remarkable thing is that this figure means
Hamilton also got up 41,600 times. Not only that, but he's also a
four time cancer survivor - which certainly must be much more
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1: G.I. Joe Day: -- Celebrates
the February 1, 1964 release date of the G.I. Joe toy by Hasbro.
These action figures have been a boy's first choice (and some
girls too -- J.C. knows, he dated such a beauty!) since their
introduction in 1964. The movable toy came in different superhero
models who had different characters, but with one common theme:
Action. This was the best-selling toy centered on boys and a
pioneer for other toys being created. The toy was created by
Stanley Weston, a toymaker who felt a toy should be created for
boys like Barbie was created for girls. This idea would turn out
to be one of the greatest ideas in toy history, as the G.I. Joes
took the world by storm, transforming the toy industry forever.
G.I. stands for 'Government issue' or 'General issue', and the
term G.I. Joe referred to U.S. soldiers during the Second World
War. The name was adopted for Hasbro's military-themed action
figures. The toy had different models initially: Action Soldier,
Action Sailor, and Action Pilot, each representing the different
arms of the army. A girl version, Action Nurse, was also
introduced. But later on, newer versions and variations were
created. In 1982, the 3.75-inch model was introduced and was a
massive success in the market. The G.I. Joe action figures became
a cartoon series on T.V. in 1983. A movie about the toy was also
created in 2009. Hasbro merged with Marvel Comics to release a
comic based on the toy collection. Several video games with
different storylines on the action figure characters were created.
The toy collection has become scarce, although the rarest models
like Snake Eyes and Action Nurse are of high value and are sold
for over 10K USD. Additionally, a 6-inch line of action figures
was launched by Hasbro in 2020 called G.I. Joe Classified, which
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1861: The American Civil War
(The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Secession Of The
Southern States Of America: The Secession Of Texas From The United
States Of America: -- In reaction to the election of Abraham
Lincoln as President, Texas becomes the seventh state to secede
from the United States. By 1856, the South had lost control of
Congress, and was no longer able to silence calls for an end to
slavery, which came mostly from the more populated, free states of
the North. The Republican Party, founded in 1854, pledged to stop
the spread of slavery beyond those states where it already
existed. After Abraham Lincoln was elected the first Republican
president in 1860, seven cotton states - South Carolina,
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas
respectively - declared their secession and formed the Confederate
States of America before Lincoln was inaugurated. The United
States government, both outgoing and incoming, refused to
recognize the Confederacy, and when the new Confederate President
Jefferson Davis ordered his troops to open fire on Fort Sumter in
April 1861, there was an overwhelming demand, North and South, for
war. Only the state of Kentucky attempted to remain neutral, and
it could only do so briefly, and chose to remain in the Union.
When Lincoln called for troops to suppress what he referred to as
"combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary"
judicial or martial means, four more states - Virginia, Arkansas,
Tennessee and North Carolina - decided to secede and join the
Confederacy, which then moved its capital to Richmond, Virginia.
Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to
secede along with the rest of the state. This section of Virginia
was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June
20, 1863. Four slave states decided to stay in the Union:
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Although divided in
their loyalties, a combination of political maneuvering and Union
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Amzie
Moore, African American civil rights leader and entrepreneur in
the Mississippi Delta (b. September 23, 1911) #dies in Bolivar
County Hospital in Cleveland, Mississippi of undisclosed causes,
aged 70. His burial place is not publicly disclosed. Amzie Moore
was born on Wilkin Plantation in Grenada County, Mississippi. He
helped pead voter registration efforts. His former home is a
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD! Garrett
Morris, African American actor, comedian and singer, part of the
original cast and first black cast member of the sketch comedy
program Saturday Night Live, appearing from 1975 to 1980, is #born
Garrett Isaac Morris in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in the
poverty-stricken Gert Town neighborhood. A church-choir singer
from his youth, he trained at the Juilliard School of Music and
graduated from Dillard University in 1958. Early in his career, he
performed with The Belafonte Folk Singers. In 1960 Garrett Morris
recorded South African Freedom Songs (EPC-601) with Pete Seeger
and Guy Carawan for Folkways Records. He performed in a number of
Broadway musicals, including Hallelujah, Baby! and Ain't Supposed
to Die a Natural Death. In 1965, he worked alongside Amiri Baraka,
Sun Ra, Albert Ayler and Sonia Sanchez at the Black Arts Repertory
Theatre/School in Harlem; during this period, the theater was
frequently raided and surveilled by the New York City Police
Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He had a small
role as a police sergeant in The Anderson Tapes (1971) and was a
cast member in the short-lived CBS sitcom, Roll Out. He also
appeared as a high school teacher in the 1975 film Cooley High. It
was because Morris had written a play that Lorne Michaels read and
liked that Morris got hired on as a writer for a program Michaels
was developing, ultimately named "Saturday Night Live".
Morris was asked about bringing in black actors to potentially
serve as cast members, such as Bill Duke; however, members of the
first SNL cast hired urged Michaels to view Cooley High (1975),
which featured Morris as a concerned teacher, which Morris the
job. Garrett Morris also played Jimmy on The Jeffersons
(1983-1984). Morris had one of the starring roles, as Junior
"Uncle Junior" King, on the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show,
which aired from 1996 to 2001. Morris also had a starring role as
Earl Washington on the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, from 2011 to
2017. He is also known for his role in the sitcom Martin as Stan
Winters, from 1992 to 1995, until he suffered an injury. Also, he
made two guest appearances on The Wayans Bros. in season one,
episode one as himself and again on episode ten as the brothers'
uncle Leon (1995). He also played Slide in Car Wash (1976), and
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD: Sherman
Hemsley, African American actor and singer (d. July 24, 2012) is
#born Sherman Alexander Hemsley in South Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He was known for his roles as George Jefferson on
the CBS television series All in the Family and The Jeffersons,
Deacon Ernest Frye on the NBC series Amen, and B.P. Richfield on
the ABC series Dinosaurs. For his work on The Jeffersons, Hemsley
was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. He also
won an NAACP Image Award. Sherman Hemsley died at his home in El
Paso, Texas at age 74 due to superior vena cava syndrome, a
complication associated with lung and bronchial carcinomas. He had
a malignant mass in one of his lungs for which chemotherapy and
radiation had been recommended, according to the El Paso County
Texas Medical Examiner's report. On August 28, 2012, an El Paso
news anchor interviewed Flora Isela Enchinton, the sole
beneficiary of Hemsley's will, who said that the two were friends
and had been business partners for more than two decades. During
this time she lived with Hemsley and his friend Kenny Johnston.
Enchinton told the Associated Press that Hemsley never mentioned
any relatives. "Some people come out of the woodwork - they
think Sherman, they think money," Enchinton told AP. "But
the fact is that I did not know Sherman when he was in the
limelight. I met them when they [Hemsley and Johnston] came
running from Los Angeles with not one penny, when there was
nothing but struggle." A Philadelphia man named Richard
Thornton claimed to be Hemsley's brother and the true heir to his
estate. After contesting the will, Thornton halted progress on
funeral arrangements, and as a result, Hemsley's body remained at
the San Jose Funeral Home in El Paso and unburied for months. On
November 9, 2012, the legal battle over Hemsley's body ended when
Judge Patricia Chew ruled in favor of Enchinton. A military
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Dennis
Edwards, African American soul and R & B singer who was best
known as the frontman in The Temptations for Motown Records (b.
February 3, 1943) #dies in an Illinois hospital, two days before
his 75th birthday, battling meningitis before his death. He is
interred at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis
County, Missouri. Dennis Edwards was born Dennis Edwards Jr. in
Fairfield, Alabama, about eight miles from Birmingham. Edwards
joined the Temptations in 1968, replacing David Ruffin, and sang
with the group from 1968 to 1976, appeared on such songs as "Cloud
Nine" and "Papa Was a Rollin Stone", then again in
1980 to 1984, and 1987 to 1989. In the mid-1980s, he launched a
solo career, recording the 1984 hit single "Don't Look Any
Further" (featuring Siedah Garrett). Until his death, Edwards
was the lead singer of The Temptations Review, a Temptations
splinter group. Edwards had a relationship with singer Aretha
Franklin, who stated he was the inspiration behind her 1972 soul
song "Day Dreaming". Edwards was briefly married to Ruth
Pointer of The Pointer Sisters, whom he wed in Las Vegas in 1977
The couple had one daughter, Issa Pointer, who became a member of
her mother's vocal group, The Pointer Sisters. Edwards moved to
Florissant, Missouri in the 1980s to be closer to his mother. On
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Today, February 1, 2026February, 1943: The History Of Aviation:
The History Of Military Aviation: Aircraft Service Entries: -- The
Junkers Ju 188 Racher (Raecher; German: "Avenger"), the
German Luftwaffe high-performance medium bomber built as the
follow-up to the Ju 88 Schnellbomber (German: "Fast Bomber"
with improved performance and payload capacity, is introduced into
service with the German Luftwaffe. The Junkers Ju 188 was produced
only in limited numbers, due both to the presence of improved
versions of the Ju 88, as well as the increasingly effective
Allied strategic bombing campaign against German industry and the
resulting focus on fighter production. Of the over 1,000 built, it
last saw service as part of France's captured German aircraft
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1893: Film (Motion Pictures):
The History Of The Film Industry (The History Of The Motion
Picture Industry): Film Studios (Movie Studios, Studios): Edison's
Black Maria: -- Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the
first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New
Jersey. Also known as The Cinematographic Theater, is was built to
make film strips shot using the Kinetograph, the device Edison
invented to shoot film for use in Edison's kinetoscope, an early
motion picture exhibition device designed for films to be viewed
by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window; it was
not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic approach that
would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the
advent of video. It was built with a tar-paper-covered dark studio
room and a retractable roof to control the induction of sunlight
Construction began in December 1892, and was completed in less
than tow months. In early May 1893 at the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences, Edison conducted the world's first public
demonstration of films shot in the Black Maria with a Kinetoscope
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1966: #DOTD: #RIP: Buster
Keaton, American actor, comedian, film director, producer,
screenwriter, and stunt performer (b. October 4, 1895) #dies of
lung cancer aged 70 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Despite being diagnosed with cancer in January 1966, he was never
told he was terminally ill. Keaton thought that he was recovering
from a severe case of bronchitis. Confined to a hospital during
his final days, Keaton was restless and paced the room endlessly,
desiring to return home; the day before he died, Keaton was up out
of bed and moving around, and even played cards with friends who
came to visit. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
in Hollywood Hills, California. He was born Joseph Frank Keaton
into a vaudeville family in Piqua, Kansas. He is best known for
his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with
a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname
"The Great Stone Face." Critic Roger Ebert wrote of
Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, he worked
without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably,
the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies".
His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his
artistic independence when he was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and
he descended into alcoholism, ruining his family life. He
recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a
degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life,
earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1959. Many of Keaton's films
from the 1920s, such as Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926),
and The Cameraman (1928), remain highly regarded, with the second
of these three widely viewed as his masterpiece. Among its
strongest admirers was Orson Welles, who stated that The General
was cinema's highest achievement in comedy, and perhaps the
greatest film ever made. Keaton was recognized as the
seventh-greatest film director by Entertainment Weekly, and in
1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 21st greatest
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Maximilian
Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
who wrote, directed and produced some of his own films, winner of
the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film
Judgment at Nuremberg, his second acting role in Hollywood (b.
December 8, 1930) #dies at the age of 83 in Innsbruck, Austria,
after a "sudden and serious illness". The German
television news service Tagesschau reported that he had been
receiving treatment for pneumonia. He is buried in
Preitenegg/Carinthia (Austria) where the family home was located
and where he and his sister lived the rest of their lives.
Maximilian Schell was born in Vietnna, Austria to parents were
involved in the arts and he grew up surrounded by acting and
literature. While he was a child, his family fled to Switzerland
in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, and they settled
in Zurich. After World War II ended, Schell took up acting or
directing full-time. He appeared in numerous German films, often
anti-war, before moving on to Hollywood. Schell was top billed in
a number of Nazi-era themed films, as he could speak both English
and German. Among those were two films for which he received Oscar
nominations: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975; best actor), where
he played a character with two identities, and Julia (1977; best
supporting actor), where he helps the underground in Nazi Germany.
His range of acting went beyond German characters, however; and
during his career, he also played personalities as diverse as
Venezuelan leader Simon Bolivar, Russian emperor Peter The Great,
and scientist Albert Einstein. For his role as Vladimir Lenin in
the television film Stalin (1992) he won the Golden Globe Award.
On stage, Schell acted in a number of plays, and his was
considered "one of the greatest Hamlets ever." In
Schell's private life, he was an accomplished pianist and
conductor, performing with Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein,
and with orchestras in Berlin and Vienna. His elder sister, Maria
Schell, was also a noted Hollywood actress, about whom he produced
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1950: The History Of The
Computer: The History Of The Computer Industry: The History Of
Mainframe Computers: -- Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
(EMCC), founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly to produce
ENIAC, the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital
computer in 1945, is sold to Remington Rand. After building the
ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, Eckert and Mauchly formed
EMCC (March 1946 - 1950) to build new computer designs for
commercial and military applications. The company was initially
called the Electronic Control Company, changing its name to
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation when it was incorporated on
December 22, 1947. Remington Rand was sold in 1955 to Sperry
Corporation, and renamed itself Sperry Rand; on September 16,
1986, a hostile takeover by Burroughs Corporation CEO and former
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal resulted in the
merging of Sperry with Burroughs Corporation under a new name,
Unisys - a portmanteau of "united", "information",
and "systems". The takeover came about even after Sperry
used a "poison pill" in the form of a major share price
hike to dissuade the hostile bid, the result of which caused
Burroughs to borrow much more funding than was anticipated to
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1957: #DOTD: Friedrich
Paulus, German field marshal during World War II, best known for
commanding the German 6th Army during the Battle Of Stalingrad
that ended in disaster for the Wehrmacht when Soviet forces
encircled the Germans within the city, leading to the ultimate
defeat and capture of about 265,000 German personnel, their Axis
allies and collaborators (b. September 23, 1890) #dies of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease
also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease,
in Dresden, East Germany at age 66, 14 years and one day after his
surrender at Stalingrad. As part of his last will and testament,
his body was transported to Baden-Baden, West Germany, to be
buried at the Hauptfriedhof next to his wife, who had died eight
years earlier in 1949, not having seen her husband since his
departure for the Eastern Front in the summer of 1942. Friedrich
Paulus was born Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus in Guxhagen,
Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire. Paulus fought in World War I
and saw action in France and the Balkans. He was considered a
promising officer; by the time World War II broke out he had been
promoted to major general. Paulus took part in the Poland and Low
Countries campaigns, after which he was named deputy chief of the
German Army General Staff. In that capacity, Paulus helped plan
the invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1942, Paulus was given
command of the 6th Army despite his lack of field experience. He
led the drive to Stalingrad but was cut off and surrounded in the
subsequent Soviet counter-offensive. Adolf Hitler prohibited
attempts to break out or capitulate, and German defence was
gradually worn down. Paulus surrendered in Stalingrad on 31
January 1943, the same day on which he was informed of his
promotion to field marshal by Hitler. Hitler expected Paulus to
commit suicide, repeating to his staff that there was no precedent
of a German field marshal ever being captured alive. While in
Soviet captivity during the war, Paulus became a vocal critic of
the Nazi regime and joined the Soviet-sponsored National Committee
for a Free Germany. In 1953, Paulus moved to East Germany, where
he worked in military history research, having a decisive role in
the development of the myth of the clean Wehrmacht. He lived out
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1991: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War
I): Operation Desert Storm: The Battle Of Khafji: -- Coalition
forces drive Iraqi forces out of Saudi Arabia when they capture
the city of Khafji at the cost of 43 Coalition servicemen dead and
52 wounded, with Iraqi Army fatalities between 60 and 300, while
an estimated 400 were captured as prisoners of war. Although the
invasion of Khafji was initially a propaganda victory for the
Ba'athist Iraqi regime, its swiftly recapture by Saudi Arabian
ground forces demonstrated the ability of Coalition air power to
support ground forces. The Battle of Khafji took place in and
around the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji, from January 29 to
February 1, 1991 and marked the culmination of the Coalition's air
campaign over Kuwait and Iraq, which had begun on January 17,
1991. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who had already tried and
failed to draw Coalition troops into costly ground engagements by
shelling Saudi Arabian positions and oil storage tanks and firing
Scud surface-to-surface missiles at Israel, ordered the invasion
of Saudi Arabia from southern Kuwait. The 1st and 5th Mechanized
Divisions and 3rd Armored Division were ordered to conduct a
multi-pronged invasion toward Khafji, engaging Saudi Arabian,
Kuwaiti, and U.S. forces along the coastline, with a supporting
Iraqi commando force ordered to infiltrate further south by sea
and harass the Coalition's rear. These three divisions, which had
been heavily damaged by Coalition aircraft in the preceding days,
attacked on 29 January. Most of their attacks were repulsed by
U.S. Marines as well as U.S. Army Rangers and Coalition aircraft,
but one of the Iraqi columns occupied Khafji on the night of 29-30
January. Between 30 January and 1 February, two Saudi Arabian
National Guard battalions and two Kuwaiti tank companies attempted
to retake control of the city, aided by Coalition aircraft and
U.S. artillery. By 1 February, the city had been recaptured at the
cost of 43 Coalition servicemen dead and 52 wounded. Iraqi Army
fatalities numbered between 60 and 300, while an estimated 400
were captured as prisoners of war. Although the invasion of Khafji
was initially a propaganda victory for the Ba'athist Iraqi regime,
it was swiftly recaptured by Saudi Arabian ground forces. The
battle demonstrated the ability of air power to support ground
forces. The Gulf War (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991),
codenamed Operation Desert Shield (August 2, 1990 - January 17,
1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense
of Saudi Arabia, and Operation Desert Storm (January 17, 1991 -
February 28, 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by
coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against
Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The
war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War,
First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Confession AKA L'aveu (1970) Yves Montand DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1915: #BOTD: #HBD: Artur
London, Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the
Slansky Trial of 1952 (d. November 8, 1986) is #born in Ostrava,
Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) to a Jewish family.
A committed leftist, he was a defendant in the Slansky Trial, the
1952 antisemitic show trial against fourteen Communist Party Of
Czechoslovakia members known as the so-called Anti-Trotskyite
Trials. Though London was sentenced to life in prison, he was
freed in 1955. He then settled in France with his wife Lise
London, a French communist he had met in Moscow. The couple wrote
the book L'Aveu (1968), an autobiographical account of his ordeal
in the Prague Trials. The English translation The Confession by
Alastair Hamilton appeared in 1968. (In the United Kingdom, the
translation was published in 1970 under the title On Trial). While
the main defendants were senior to London, he gained prominence
worldwide by writing the book.The book resonated internationally,
and was adapted by Costa-Gavras as the French-Italian movie of the
same name starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret which
premiered on April 29, 1970. Chris Marker made the short film On
vous parle de Prague: Le deuxieme proces d'Artur London, an on-set
documentary about the making of this movie. Artur London was born
in Ostrava, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) into a
Jewish family. London spent 1934 to 1937 in Moscow. In 1937,
during the Spanish Civil War, he left for Barcelona where he
worked for SIM (Servicio de Informacion Militar), an intelligence
service run by the Soviet NKVD. He moved to France after the
defeat of the Republicans. In World War II, he was active in the
French resistance, was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the
Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, he lived in
Switzerland but soon moved with family to Prague, where he became
a leading figure in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and was
eventually nominated deputy minister of foreign affairs in 1948.
In 1951, he was arrested and became a co-defendant with Rudolf
Slansky in the Slansky Trial, one of several show trials against
Eastern European communists at the time. Accused of being a
Zionist, Trotskyite and Titoist, he was forced to confess and
sentenced to life in prison. After the Slansky Trial, London
collaborated with the authorities and served as a lead witness in
other construed political processes against top Czechoslovak
communists, such as Eduard Goldstucker, Josef Pavel, Osvald
Zavodsky, Gustav Husak, Otakar Hromadko and others. Following
Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, London was released in 1955. After
his rehabilitation in 1963, he moved to France with his wife, Lise
London. In 1963, London published Espagne, a book about his time
in the Spanish civil war. Lise later narrated the 2002 documentary
A Trial in Prague, directed by Zuzana Justman. Artur London died
in Paris, France, aged 71. He is buried along with his wife Lise,
in the PCF (French Communist Party) plot at Ivry Cemetery in
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Second Russian Revolution TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1931: #BOTD: Boris Yeltsin,
Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the
Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999 (d. April 23, 2007)
is #born Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin in the village of Butka,
Talitsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, then in the Russian Soviet
Federative Socialist Republic. Boris Yeltsin emerged under the
perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political
opponents. During the late 1980s, Yeltsin had been a candidate
member of the Politburo, and in late 1987 tendered a letter of
resignation in protest. No one had resigned from the Politburo
before. This act branded Yeltsin as a rebel and led to his rise in
popularity as an anti-establishment figure. On 29 May 1990 he was
elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. On 12 June
1991 he was elected by popular vote to the newly created post of
President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
(RSFSR). Upon the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev and the
Dissolution Of The Soviet Union on 25 December 1991, the RSFSR
became the sovereign state of the Russian Federation, and Yeltsin
remained in office as president. He was reelected in the 1996
election, in which critics widely claimed pervasive corruption; in
the second round he defeated Gennady Zyuganov from the revived
Communist Party by a margin of 13.7%. However, Yeltsin never
recovered his early popularity after a series of economic and
political crises in Russia in the 1990s. Yeltsin transformed
Russia's socialist economy into a capitalist market economy,
implementing economic shock therapy, market exchange rate of the
ruble, nationwide privatization and lifting of price controls.
Yeltsin proposed a new Russian constitution which was popularly
approved at the 1993 constitutional referendum. However, due to
the sudden total economic shift, a majority of the national
property and wealth fell into the hands of a small number of
oligarchs. Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin's
policies led to international monopolies hijacking the former
Soviet markets, arbitraging the huge difference between old
domestic prices for Russian commodities and the prices prevailing
on the world market. In the foreign policy Yeltsin offered
cooperative and conciliatory relations, particularly with the
Group of Seven, CIS and OSCE, as well as adherence to arms control
agreements, such as START II. Much of the Yeltsin era was marked
by widespread corruption, and as a result of persistent low oil
and commodity prices during the 1990s, Russia suffered inflation
and economic collapse. Within a few years of his presidency, many
of Yeltsin's initial supporters had started to criticize his
leadership, and Vice President Alexander Rutskoy even denounced
the reforms as "economic genocide". Ongoing
confrontations with the Supreme Soviet climaxed in the 1993
Russian constitutional crisis in which Yeltsin ordered the
dissolution of the Supreme Soviet parliament, which as a result
attempted to remove him from office. In October 1993, troops loyal
to Yeltsin stopped an armed uprising outside of the parliament
building, leading to a number of deaths. On 31 December 1999,
under enormous internal pressure, Yeltsin announced his
resignation, leaving the presidency in the hands of his chosen
successor, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin left office
widely unpopular with the Russian population. Yeltsin kept a low
profile after his resignation, though he did occasionally publicly
criticise his successor. Yeltsin died of congestive heart failure
in Moscow, Russia, aged 76. He was buried in the Novodevichy
Cemetery on April 25, 2007, following a period during which his
body had lain in repose in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in
Moscow. Yeltsin was the first Russian head of state in 113 years
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
STB: Changing The Guard Czechoslovakia Secret Police DVD, MP4, USB
Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1990: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The
Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations,
The Fall Of Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The
Socialist Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): Secret Police Agencies In The
Eastern Bloc (Secret Police Agencies In The Communist Bloc): The
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (The Czechoslovak Republic, The
Fourth Czechoslovak Republic, Communist Czechoslovakia): The STB
(State Security [Czech: Statni Bezpecnost, Slovak: Statna
Bezpecnost]): -- The STB, the secret police force in communist
Czechoslovakia founded on June 30, 1945 that served as an
intelligence and counter-intelligence agency, and dealt with any
activity that was considered opposition to the Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia and the state, is dissolved. The StB was controlled
by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, who used the StB as an
instrument of power and repression; State Security spied on and
intimidated political opponents of the Party and forged false
criminal evidence against them, facilitating the communists' rise
to power in 1948. Even before Czechoslovakia became a communist
state, the StB obtained forced confessions by means of torture,
including the use of psychoactive drugs, blackmail and kidnapping.
After the coup d'etat of 1948, these practices developed under the
tutelage of Soviet advisers. Other common practices included
telephone tapping, permanent monitoring of apartments,
intercepting private mail, house searches, surveillance, and
arrests and indictment for so-called "subversion of the
republic". After the coup, the StB conducted Operation Border
Stone to capture citizens who attempted to defect and cross the
Iron Curtain. StB was the main supporter of the Red Brigades, an
Italian far-left militant organization. In cooperation with the
Palestine Liberation Organization, the StB conducted logistic
support and training for Red Brigades in PLO training camps in
North Africa and Syria. The StB's part in the fall of the regime
in 1989 remains uncertain. The reported murder of a student by
police during a peaceful demonstration in November 1989 was the
catalyst for wider public support and further demonstrations,
leading to the overthrow of the communist regime. According to StB
agent Ludvik Zifcak, he was used to impersonate a fictitious dead
student, Martin Smid. However, in 1992, the Czechoslovak
parliamentary commission for investigation of events of November
17, 1989, has ruled out Zifcak's testimony, stating that "the
role of former StB lieutenant L. Zifcak was only marginal, without
any connection to critical events and without any active effort to
influence these events. Investigation of related circumstances has
indisputably proved that L. Zifcak's testimony that attributes a
key role in November's events to himself is based on facts, which
are either technically impossible and unfeasible, or contradict
actions of persons mentioned by him, which aimed to completely
different goals." State Security was dissolved on February 1,
1990. The current intelligence agency of the Czech Republic is the
Security Information Service. Former employees and associates
(informers) of the StB are currently banned from taking certain
jobs, such as legislators or police officers. The Act on
Lawlessness of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It
states that the StB, as an organisation based on the ideology of
the Communist Party, "aimed to suppress human rights and
democracy through its activities" and thus based on a
criminal ideology. The State Security was a part of the National
Security Corps (Czech: Sbor narodni bezpecnosti, SNB; Slovak: Zbor
narodnej bezpecnosti, ZNB) along with Public Security (Czech:
Verejna bezpecnost, VB; Slovak: Verejna bezpecnost, VB) - a
uniformed force that performed standard police duties. Both forces
worked at regional and district levels, supervised by the
Ministries of the Interior of the Czech and Slovak Socialist
Republics, but operationally directed by the federal Ministry of
Interior. In the early 1990s former dissident and "StB
hunter" Petr Cibulka published the names of over 200,000
alleged StB officers and collaborators, who spied and reported on
family members, friends, neighbours, and colleagues. Pavel Bret, a
deputy director of the Office for the Documentation and the
Investigation of the Crimes of Communism, criticized Cibulka's
lists, saying: "It's dangerous to apply sweeping
blacklisting. We shouldn't forget who compiled them. If [Cibulka]
wants to be objective, he should also inform the public how people
had been recruited -- that it was often through compromising
documents, extortion, beatings -- or their collaboration was
falsified." In 2003, the Czech Interior Ministry released an
official list of 75,000 StB agents and collaborators, including
3,000 names of collaborators from abroad. According to the Radio
Prague, "The Ministry says it contains less names than that
of Petr Cibulka because it only lists those who collaborated with
the StB knowingly, and not people who were considered as potential
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Women's
Rights Women's Suffrage The Women's Movement MP4 Download DVD
Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1878: #BOTD: #HBD!: Hattie
Wyatt Caraway, American democratic politician who became the first
woman elected to serve a full term as a United States Senator, the
first to be re-elected, and the first woman to preside over the
Senate (d. December 21, 1950) is #born Hattie Wyatt near rural
Bakerville in Humphreys County in west-central Tennessee. Hattie
Ophelia Wyatt Caraway;s husband Thaddeus Caraway was elected the
U.S. Senator from Arkansas in 1920. Following his March 3, 1931
death, she filled the remainder of his term; following the
precedent of appointing widows to temporarily take their husbands'
places, Arkansas governor Harvey Parnell appointed Hattie Caraway
to the vacant seat, and she was sworn into office on December 9.
With the Democratic Party of Arkansas's backing, she easily won a
special election in January 1932 for the remaining months of the
term, becoming the first woman elected to the Senate. In May 1932,
Caraway surprised Arkansas politicians by announcing that she
would run for a full term in the upcoming election. Lacking any
significant political backing, Caraway accepted the active support
of fellow Senator Huey Long, of neighboring Louisiana. Caraway
went on to win the general election in November, with the
accompanying victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt as U.S. President.
Caraway was reelected in 1948, and served a total of 14 years in
the Senate. On her final day in the Senate, she received a rare
standing ovation from her all-male colleagues. Roosevelt then
appointed her to the Employees' Compensation Commission, and in
1946, President Harry S. Truman gave her a post on the Employees'
Compensation Appeals Board, on which she served until suffering a
stroke in January 1950. She died that same year while still in
office as Sentator in Falls Church, Virginia, and was buried in
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Outer
Space Films 7 The Space Shuttle DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 2003: Spaceflight-Related
Accidents And Incidents: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath
Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: Space Programs Of
The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Space Shuttle
Program (The Space Transportation System (STS)): Space Shuttle
Mission STS-107 -- #DOTD: Sixteen minutes before it was scheduled
to land, the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to fly in
NASA's Space Shuttle fleet, broke apart in flight over west Texas,
killing all seven crew members: Rick Husband, Commander; William
C. McCool, Pilot; Michael P. Anderson, Mission specialist; Kalpana
Chawla, Mission specialist; David M. Brown, Mission specialist;
Laurel Clark, Mission specialist; and Ilan Ramon, Payload
specialist. The accident may have resulted from damage caused
during liftoff when a piece of insulating foam from the external
fuel tank broke off, piercing a hole in the shuttle's left wing
that allowed hot gases to penetrate the wing upon re-entry into
the Earth's atmosphere. This was the second space shuttle lost in
flight. In January 1986, Challenger exploded during liftoff. On
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Legacy
Of The Hollywood Blacklist DVD MP4 Download USB Flash Drive
Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1966: #DOTD: Hedda Hopper,
American gossip columnist, journalist, actress and red-baiter (b.
May 2, 1885) #dies of double pneumonia at the age of 80 in
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is buried at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Altoona, Pennsylvania. She was born Elda Furry in
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. At the height of her influence in the
1940s, her readership was 35 million. A strong supporter of the
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings, Hopper
named suspected communists and was a major proponent of the
Hollywood blacklist. Hopper continued to write gossip until the
end of her life, her work appearing in many magazines and later on
radio. She had an extended feud with another gossip columnist,
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus Documentary MP4 Video Download
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Today, February 1, 2026February 1, 1851: #DOTD: #RIP: Mary
Shelley, English novelist, short story writer, dramatist,
essayist, biographer, travel writer and playwright, best known as
the author of the Gothic horror novel The Modern Prometheus
(1818), popularly known as Frankenstein, considered one of the
earliest pieces of science fiction, editor and promotor of the
works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy
Bysshe Shelley (b. August 30, 1797) #dies at Chester Square,
Belgravia, London, England at the age of fifty-three from what her
physician suspected was a brain tumour. According to Jane Shelley,
Mary Shelley had asked to be buried with her mother and father;
but Percy and Jane, judging the graveyard at St Pancras to be
"dreadful", chose to bury her instead at St Peter's
Church, Bournemouth, near their new home at Boscombe. In order to
fulfil Shelley's wishes, Percy Florence and his wife Jane had the
coffins of her parents exhumed and buried with her in Bournemouth.
On the first anniversary of Mary Shelley's death, the Shelleys
opened her box-desk. Inside they found locks of her dead
children's hair, a notebook she had shared with Percy Bysshe
Shelley, and a copy of his poem Adonais with one page folded round
a silk parcel containing some of his ashes and the remains of his
heart. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft
Godwin in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the second child
of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary
Wollstonecraft and the first child of the philosopher, novelist,
and journalist William Godwin. Mary's mother died 11 days after
giving birth to her. She was raised by her father, who provided
her with a rich if informal education, encouraging her to adhere
to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four, her
father married a neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Mary
came to have a troubled relationship. In 1814, Mary began a
romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe
Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister,
Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and travelled
through Europe. Upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant
with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced
ostracism, constant debt and the death of their prematurely born
daughter. They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy
Shelley's first wife, Harriet. In 1816, the couple and Mary's
stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John
William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived
the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in
1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before
Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy
Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing
boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley
returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the
upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. The
last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused
by the brain tumour which killed her at the age of 53. Until the
1970s, Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish her
husband's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains
widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations.
Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of
Shelley's achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in
her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the
historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the
apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826) and her final two novels,
Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known
works, such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844)
and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet
Cyclopaedia (1829-1846), support the growing view that Shelley
remained a political radical throughout her life. Shelley's works
often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as
practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil
society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic
Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Eleanor
Roosevelt Documentaries DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, February 1, 2026February 1: Spunky Old Broads Day (S.O.B.
Day): -- A special holiday created by Dr. Gayle Carson in 2002
aims to dispel the myth about life automatically winding up for
women once they hit the 50 mark. Need proof? Trailblazing Kamala
Harris, who at 56 shattered racial barriers by becoming the 49th
Vice President of the United States - the first woman, first Black
American, and first person of Asian heritage. Martha Stewart, aged
50, secured her empire with the transformation of her brand.
Patricia Field, "Sex and the City" costume designer,
also hit success at 54. In a world that tends to tip the scale in
favor of younger women, undermining talents, remarkable
achievements, and legacies of badass older women whose zeal and
passion have impacted us in ways words adequately fail to
describe. Author/T.V. Consultant Dr. Carson boldly changes the
narrative with her much-needed initiative Spunky Old Broads Day.
This special holiday urges women aged 50 and over to fully embrace
the beauty of aging, revel in their authentic selves by living
regret-free lives to the fullest. Not just for old women, it
eloquently describes all women as Spunky, Open, and Brave
(S.O.B.). Big picture: we see it at our every turn; how from age
50, the rousing applause gradually starts to fade, spotlight
drifting to younger talents and just like that, years of hard work
and dazzling brilliance is swiftly forgotten, and with that comes
an overwhelming feeling of worthlessness, doubting of
capabilities, loneliness, and invisibility. While society places
limits and barriers on the 50 milestones, Dr. Carson S.O.B
preaches otherwise. She believes 50 isn't a life sentence that
automatically closes the window on your most significant
successes; instead, for women with fire and spirit, 50 could very
well translate as the perfect spur to reinvent self, conquer even
more territories, achieve greater accomplishments, and impact
their world. Ushering in this fun month-long holiday - Spunky Old
Broads Month - Spunky Old Broads Day, kick-started in 2002, pays
homage to the wisdom, vitality, inner beauty, strength, and talent
of incredibly vivacious queens aged 50 and beyond who have
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