Top Historical Events That Happened on February 01
Sunday, 02 August 2026
1953 Flooding in Netherlands, results in the deaths of 1835. 

1954 inaugural TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres 

1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire. 

1954 Julius P Hoste, Belg minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69. 

1955 H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark 

1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking 

1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam. 

1957 The inaugural black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline. 

1957 Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66. 

1958 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women. 

1958 Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic. 

1958 US satellite (Explorer I) launched 

1958 Clinton Joseph Davisson, dies. 

1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) 

1959 US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss. 

1959 US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins. 

1959 Madame Sul-To-Wan, [Conley], actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 85 

1960 4 students stage inaugural civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth. 

1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender. 

1961 A full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful 

1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive 

1961 Mackay and Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies 

1963 Neil Young performs his inaugural professional date at a Winnipeg country club, at age 17. 

1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) is recorded as becoming self-governing under Hastings Banda 

1964 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances 

1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," inaugural #1 hit and stays #1 for 7 weeks 

1964 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity 

1964 Suriname River dammed. 

1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam. 

1965 Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma AL. 

1965 Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama. 

1965 Peter Jennings, 26, is recorded as becoming anchor of ABC's nightly news 

1965 The Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill 

1966 Buster Keaton, famous comic film star, dies at age 69 

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