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02/01/1941
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US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
Type: Event
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02/01/1941
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US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
Type: Event
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02/01/1942
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2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
Type: Event
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02/01/1942
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Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1942
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Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1943
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Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1943
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Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
Type: Event
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02/01/1943
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German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
Type: Event
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02/01/1943
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Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1943
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Lord Mountevans
Type: Birth
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02/01/1944
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Tommy Duffy, rocker (Echos)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1944
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Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
Type: Death
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02/01/1944
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Martin Lunssens, composer, dies at 72
Type: Death
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02/01/1944
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Leo Burmester, Louisville Ky, actor (Flo, Chiefs, Abbys, Odd Jobs)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1944
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Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
Type: Event
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02/01/1944
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US 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
Type: Event
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02/01/1945
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Ole Buck, composer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1945
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Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
Type: Death
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02/01/1945
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US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
Type: Event
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02/01/1946
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Bart Braverman, LA Calif, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1946
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Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
Type: Event
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02/01/1946
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Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
Type: Event
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02/01/1946
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Hans Betghe, writer, dies at 70
Type: Death
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02/01/1947
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Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian govt of christian-dems and communists
Type: Event
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02/01/1947
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Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
Type: Event
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02/01/1947
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NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
Type: Event
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02/01/1947
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Adam Ingram, British MP
Type: Birth
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02/01/1947
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Terry Hibbitt, soccer star
Type: Birth
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02/01/1948
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Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
Type: Event
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02/01/1948
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Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
Type: Event
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02/01/1948
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Debbie Austin, LPGA golfer
Type: Birth
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02/01/1948
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Jennifer Adams, superintendent (Central Royal Parks)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1949
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Jimmy Lee Thorpe, Roxboro NC, PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1949
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200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
Type: Event
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02/01/1949
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Herbert Stothart, composer, dies at 63
Type: Death
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02/01/1949
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RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
Type: Event
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02/01/1950
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USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
Type: Event
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02/01/1950
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Harry Blomberg, Swedish author (Jacobs Dr”m), dies at 56
Type: Death
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02/01/1950
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Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
Type: Event
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02/01/1951
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Type: Event
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02/01/1951
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UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
Type: Event
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02/01/1951
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Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed
Type: Event
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02/01/1951
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1st telecast of atomic explosion
Type: Event
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02/01/1951
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1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
Type: Event
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02/01/1951
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-50øF (-46øC), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
Type: Event
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02/01/1951
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Andrew Smith, British MP
Type: Birth
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02/01/1952
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General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
Type: Event
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02/01/1952
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Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
Type: Birth
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02/01/1952
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SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC
Type: Event
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02/01/1953
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C A Barnett, headmaster (Whitgift School)
Type: Birth
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