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NASDAQ at night
Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen Mary I of Scotland
A fragment of the Allende meteorite
Sandford Fleming
Denis Sassou Nguesso
Theatrical poster for The Birth of a Nation
Mickey Mouse's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Ineligible
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| Prešeren Day in Slovenia | lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 1575 – Leiden University, the oldest and highest-ranked university in the Netherlands, was founded by William, Prince of Orange. | refimprove section |
| 1849 – The Roman Republic was proclaimed, temporarily replacing the government of the Papal States. | refimprove |
| 1885 – The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii. | refimprove section |
| 1887 – The Dawes Act, a law meant to help the assimilation of Native Americans into American society, but which instead had a negative effect, was signed by President Grover Cleveland. | neutrality issues |
| 1904 – The Russo-Japanese War began with a surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese on Russian ships near present-day Lüshunkou, China. | War: refimprove section; Battle: refimprove |
| 1915 – D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was released, becoming one of the most influential and controversial films in the history of American cinema. | Cast section unref'd. Uncertain date of first showing. |
| 1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, was established. | unreferenced section |
| 1968 – Local police in Orangeburg, South Carolina, fired into a crowd of people who were protesting segregation, killing three and injuring twenty-seven others. | refimprove section |
| 1969 – The Allende meteorite, the largest carbonaceous chondrite ever found on Earth, fell near Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico. | refimprove |
| 1971 – Trading began on Nasdaq, the world's first electronic stock exchange. | outdated |
| 1979 – Denis Sassou Nguesso was chosen as the new President of the Republic of the Congo after Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced from power. | copy editing required |
| John Ruskin |b|1819 | external links |
| Valerie Thomas |b|1943 | POTD on 2022-02-01 |
Eligible
- 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed at Fotheringhay Castle for her involvement in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Elizabeth I of England.
- 1837 – Richard Mentor Johnson became the only person ever to be elected Vice President of the United States by the Senate.
- 1879 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming proposed the idea of standard time zones based on a single universal world time.
- 1960 – The official groundbreaking of the Walk of Fame took place in Hollywood, California.
- Born/died: | Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid |b|882| Daniele Barbaro |b|1514| Gerolamo Emiliani |d|1537| Guercino |b|1591| Jules Verne |b|1828| Franz Marc |b|1880| Walther Bothe |d|1957| Ernest Titterton |d|1990| Iris Murdoch |d|1999| A. Chandranehru |d|2005
William D. Boyce
- 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led a failed rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- 1879 – Angered by a controversial umpiring decision, cricket spectators rioted and attacked the England team during a match in Sydney, Australia.
- 1910 – William D. Boyce (pictured) established the Boy Scouts of America, expanding the Scout Movement into the United States.
- 1965 – After taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision just after taking off from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 84 people on board.
- 2010 – A freak storm triggered a series of avalanches that buried more than 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of road near the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing 175 people and trapping more than 2,500 travellers.
- Helen of Anjou (d. 1314)
- Kate Chopin (b. 1850)
- Peter Kropotkin (d. 1921)
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