Top Historical Events That Happened on February 01

1903  George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83   

1904  S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)   

1904  Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76.   

1905  Hungarian premier Tisza steps down   

1905  Hague soccer team ADO froms.   

1905  Emilio Segre.   

1905  Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77.   

1906  English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured.   

1906  inaugural federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS   

1906  1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas   

1906  Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)   

1907  Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U and non-U)   

1908  King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.   

1908  Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale).   

1908  Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44.   

1909  US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens   

1909  Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)   

1910  Dragoumis government forms in Greece   

1910  The inaugural British labour exchange opens   

1910  1st British labour exchange opens.   

1910  H Stanley Cayzer   

1910  Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44.   

1913  Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot.   

1914  Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed   

1914  Tanganyika Railway opens   

1914  NY Giants and Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt   

1915  Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted   

1916  SS Empress Queen, stranded in fog off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, where she later broke up. Although there were 1300 troops on board all were got off.   

1916  Gordon Hobday, Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire)   

1916  Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65.   

1917  Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war.   

1918  In this year, Russia formally adopts Gregorian calendar (is recorded as becoming Feb 14)   

1918  The French ship LaDive is torpedoed in the Mediterranean   

1918  Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest   

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1261  Walter de stapledon: English bishop   

1459  Conrad celtes: German scholar   

1462  Johannes trithemius: German cryptographer   

1552  Edward coke: Mileham norfolk, jurist/politician (defended common law)   

1603  Michael trumper: Composer   

1605  Isaac aboab de fonseca: Portuguese/neth rabbi/mystic   

1633  Gabriel schutz: Composer   

1635  Marquard gude: German archaeologist   

0656  Death of Sigebert iii: King of austrasia,   

1204  Death of Alexius iv angelus: Regent of byzantium (1203-04), murdered   

1248  Death of Hendrik ii: Duke of brabant (1235-48),   

1294  Death of Louis ii: The stern, ruler of upper-bayern,   

1328  Death of Charles iv: The handsome, king of france (1322-28),   

1502  Olivier de la marche: Flemish writer/poet/governor,   

1542  Girolamo aleandro: Italian catholic cardinal (b. 1480)   

1563  Menas: Emperor of ethiopia (died of fever)