This day in History - February 1

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