Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 1

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  STS-107 launch
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  STS-107 Crew
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  Insignia of the Final Mission of Columbia
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  West facade of the United States Supreme Court Building
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  First Wankel engine at the Deutsches Museum in Bonn, Germany
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  Trygve Lie
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  King Edward III of England
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  Ruhollah Khomeini
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  The Shard, London
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  Mayon
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  Skyline of Kuala Lumpur
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  Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

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Blurb	Reason
LGBT History Month begins in Hungary and the United Kingdom;	refimprove sesction
1790 – The Supreme Court of the United States, the highest judicial body in the U.S. and the head of the judicial branch of the federal government, first convened at the Merchants' Exchange Building in New York City.	refimprove section
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark to York, which was judged to be less vulnerable to attack by the United States.	refimprove section
1946 – As a result of a compromise between the major powers within the United Nations, Norwegian politician Trygve Lie was elected as its first Secretary-General.	lots of CN tags
1964 – "I Want to Hold Your Hand" became The BeatlesTemplate:` first number-one single in the United States.	lots of CN tags
1968 – The Government of Canada merged the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force into a unified structure, the Canadian Armed Forces.	refimprove section
1968 – American photographer Eddie Adams took his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of Viet Cong prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém's summary execution.	maintenance tags: {Contradiction inline} {Failed verification} {Unreliable source inline}
1982 – Senegal and the Gambia formed the Senegambia Confederation to promote cooperation between the two countries.	lots of CN tags
1991 – On final approach to Los Angeles International Airport, USAir Flight 1493 collided with a smaller aircraft and caught fire, killing 34 people.	refimprove
2001 – The capital of Malaysia was moved from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya, although the government's legislative functions remained in the former Federal Territory.	Putrajaya: refimprove
2013 – The Shard, located in Southwark, London, and the tallest building in the European Union, opened to the public.	trivia
Ștefan Luchian |b|1868|	Birthday not cited
[[N. D. Cocea|Template:Nowrap Cocea]] |d|1949|	Deathday not cited
Ed Koch |d|2013	too many {cn} tags (>10)

Eligible

• 1327 – Fourteen-year-old Edward III was crowned King of England, but with the country ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
• 1329 – The Teutonic Knights successfully besieged the hillfort of Medvėgalis in Samogitia, Lithuania, and baptised the defenders in the Catholic rite.
• 1814 – More than 1,200 people died in the most destructive recorded eruption of Mayon in the Philippines.
• 1884 – The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary, a 352-page volume that covered words from A to ant, was published.
• 1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, began broadcasting to Germany during World War II.
• 1957 – Invented by German engineer Felix Wankel, the first working prototype of the Wankel rotary engine ran for the first time at the research and development department of NSU Motorenwerke AG.
• 1972 – Kuala Lumpur (pictured), the capital of Malaysia, was granted city status.
• 1978 – After having served 42 days in prison for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before the formal sentencing hearing.
• 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty.
• 1985 – Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashed shortly after takeoff from Minsk National Airport, killing fifty-eight people on board.
• 2001 – The Timor Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-Indonesian independence movement Falintil.
• 2003 – All seven crew members aboard Space Shuttle Columbia were killed when the orbiter disintegrated over Texas during reentry.
• 2004 – During the halftime show of [[Super Bowl XXXVIII|Super Template:Nowrap]], Janet Jackson's breast was exposed by Justin Timberlake in what was later referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction", resulting in an immediate crackdown and widespread debate on perceived indecency in U.S. broadcasting.
• 2009 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Iceland.
• 2012 – Following an Egyptian Premier League match in Port Said, Al Masry fans rioted and violently attacked Al Ahly supporters, resulting in 74 deaths.

• Born/died this day: | Alexios I of Trebizond |d|1222| Menas of Ethiopia |d|1563| Francesco Maria Veracini |b|1690| Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix |d|1761| Thomas Campbell |b|1763| Erik Adolf von Willebrand |b|1870| Clara Butt |b|1872| Stanley Matthews |b|1915| Hassan Al-Turabi |b|1932 George Whipple |d|1976| Yolanda González |d|1980|Sheila Heaney |d|1991| Harry Styles |b|1994

Notes

• Space Shuttle Challenger disaster/STS-51L appear on January 28, so Columbia should not appear in the same year.
• John Marshall appears on January 31, so US Supreme Court should not appear in the same year.
• Iranian Revolution appears on February 11, so Ruhollah Khomeini should not appear in the same year.

February 1: Imbolc / Saint Brigid's Day in Ireland; Black History Month begins in the United States Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn was signed, ending the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
• 1662 – Sino-Dutch conflicts: After besieging Fort Zeelandia for nine months, Ming loyalist Zheng Chenggong secured the Dutch East India Company's surrender and the end of their rule in Taiwan.
• 1896 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, eventually becoming one of the most frequently performed operas internationally.
• 1960 – Civil rights movement: Four African-American students staged the first of more than five months of sit-ins at an F. W. Woolworth lunch counter (pictured) in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest the company's policy of racial segregation.
• 2021 – The Burmese military staged a coup d'état that deposed the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking nationwide protests and a civil war.