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02/01/1907
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John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1907
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Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U and non-U)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1907
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S ndor Veress, Hungarian pianist/composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1908
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George Pal, Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1908
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Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
Type: Death
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02/01/1908
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Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1908
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Edward Staempfli, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1909
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Helen Chandler, Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1909
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Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1909
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US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
Type: Event
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02/01/1910
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Jahangir Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1910
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H Stanley Cayzer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1910
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Michael Kanin, Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1910
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Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
Type: Death
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02/01/1910
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Dragoumis govt forms in Greece
Type: Event
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02/01/1910
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1st British labour exchange opens
Type: Event
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02/01/1913
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Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot
Type: Birth
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02/01/1914
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NY Giants and Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
Type: Event
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02/01/1914
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Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
Type: Event
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02/01/1914
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Hans Zlig, Swiss dancer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1914
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Tanganyika Railway opens
Type: Event
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02/01/1915
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Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
Type: Birth
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02/01/1916
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Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65
Type: Death
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02/01/1916
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Gordon Hobday, Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1917
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Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
Type: Event
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02/01/1918
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Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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02/01/1918
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Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14)
Type: Event
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02/01/1918
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Franz Leh rs opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest
Type: Event
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02/01/1918
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Maurice Laing, life president (John Laing)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1918
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Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1919
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Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
Type: Event
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02/01/1920
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Pierre Jonqu‚res d'Oriola, France, equest jumper (Oly-gold-1952, 64)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1920
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
Type: Event
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02/01/1920
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Soccer team Quick Boys forms
Type: Event
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02/01/1920
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Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman
Type: Birth
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02/01/1920
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1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
Type: Event
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02/01/1921
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Peter Sallis, actor (Tast the Blood of Dracula)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1922
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Clifford McWatt, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1954-55)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1922
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Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
Type: Birth
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02/01/1922
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William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49
Type: Death
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02/01/1923
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Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
Type: Event
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02/01/1923
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No‰l Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London
Type: Event
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02/01/1923
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Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
Type: Event
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02/01/1924
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Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
Type: Event
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02/01/1924
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New British MacDonald govt recognizes USSR
Type: Event
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02/01/1924
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Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
Type: Event
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02/01/1924
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Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
Type: Event
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02/01/1925
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1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontk„mpferbund in Berlin
Type: Event
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02/01/1926
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Douglas Johnson, historian
Type: Birth
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02/01/1926
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Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey
Type: Birth
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