February 1

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February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year (334 in leap years).

[edit] Events

• 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
• 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
• 1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria (West Orange, New Jersey).
• 1943 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the German occupiers.

[edit] Births

• 1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada(d. 1973)
• 1902 - Therese Brandl, German labour camp guard (d. 1947, by execution)
• 1931 - Boris Yeltsin, Russian leader (d. 2007)

[edit] Deaths

• 1328 - King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
• 1733 - King Augustus II of Poland (b. 1670)