526 Historic Events for February 1
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| 1941 |
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US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
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| 1941 |
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US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
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| 1942 |
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2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
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| 1942 |
Birth |
Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
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| 1943 |
Birth |
Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
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| 1943 |
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Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
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| 1943 |
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German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
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| 1943 |
Birth |
Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer
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| 1943 |
Birth |
Lord Mountevans
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| 1944 |
Birth |
Tommy Duffy, rocker (Echos)
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| 1944 |
Death |
Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
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| 1944 |
Death |
Martin Lunssens, composer, dies at 72
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| 1944 |
Birth |
Leo Burmester, Louisville Ky, actor (Flo, Chiefs, Abbys, Odd Jobs)
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| 1944 |
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Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
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| 1944 |
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US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
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| 1945 |
Birth |
Ole Buck, composer
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| 1945 |
Death |
Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
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| 1945 |
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US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
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| 1946 |
Birth |
Bart Braverman, LA Calif, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
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| 1946 |
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Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
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| 1946 |
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Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
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| 1946 |
Death |
Hans Betghe, writer, dies at 70
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| 1947 |
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Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian govt of christian-dems and communists
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| 1947 |
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Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
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