Historical Events on February 1 (Part 2)

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• 1972 The Ministry of Defence also issues a detailed account of the British Army's version of events during 'Bloody Sunday'
• 1972 Wings release single "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
• 1973 Outfielder Monte Irvin is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Special Committee on the Negro Leagues; fourth inductee through the committee

• 1974 Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
• 1975 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
• 1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
• 1975 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
• 1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV

• 1977 Blizzard in upstate New York and Southern Ontario claims 23 lives

• 1979 English international forward Trevor Francis becomes Britain’s first £1 million soccer player when he transfers from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1980 "Call Me" single released by Blondie (Billboard Song of the Year 1980)
• 1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
• 1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run

• 1981 Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
• 1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
• 1981 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 21-7; MVP: Eddie Murray, Detroit Lions, PK

• 1982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
• 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1984 American lawyer and businessman David Stern becomes NBA Commissioner, succeeding Larry O'Brien; stays in position until 2014

• 1984 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
• 1984 Indian diplomat Ravindra Mhatre kidnapped and murdered by Kashmiri terrorists in Birmingham, England
• 1985 -61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
• 1985 -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
• 1985 Patient innings from Dilip Vengsarkar (137) and Mohammad Azharuddin (122) set India up for 5th cricket Test draw vs England in Kanpur; Azharuddin, 3 centuries in 1st 3 Tests
• 1986 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
• 1987 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze

• 1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion

• 1989 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
• 1991 Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die

• 1991 Australian cricket fast bowler Craig McDermott sets up a 9 wicket, 5th Test win over England with a career best 8-97 in Perth

• 1991 US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
• 1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 performances

• 1993 NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
• 1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands

• 1994 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
• 1994 South African cricket fast bowler Fanie de Villiers bravely survives 197 minutes for 30 on last day of 3rd Test against Australia in Adelaide; Proteas finally all out 129; Australia win by 191, draw series
• 1995 Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
• 1995 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air

• 1995 Zimbabwe batsmen Andy (156) & Grant Flower (201) set world record brotherly stand of 269 to propel Zimbabwe to first ever victory in Test cricket in 1st Test against Pakistan in Harare
• 1996 The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.

• 1998 "Street Corner Symphony" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances
• 1998 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia wins his first and only Grand Slam event; beats Marcelo Rios of Chile 6-2, 6-2, 6-2
• 1998 Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
• 1998 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 29-24; MVP: Warren Moon, Seattle Seahawks, QB, HI
• 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
• 2004 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

• 2005 Arsenal’s English Premier League record 33-game unbeaten streak at home ends when the Gunners go down, 4-2 to Manchester United at Highbury
• 2005 Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.
• 2005 Nepalese King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'état to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.

• 2006 High school senior Epiphanny Prince scores US girls national prep basketball record 113 points in Murry Bergtraum HS's 137-32 win over Brandeis HS; surpasses Cheryl Miller's 105
• 2008 Canadian jockey Russell Baze rides his 10,000th career winner aboard Two Step Cat in 3rd race at Golden Gate Fields, Albany, CA; prevails in a 3-horse photo finish
• 2008 Minnesota starter Johan Santana signs a 6-year, $137.5 million deal with the New York Mets to become the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history; trade from Twins to Mets official the next day
• 2009 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Spanish ace Rafael Nadal wins his first Australian title; beats Roger Federer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-2
• 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay Head of Government in the modern world.
• 2009 Super Bowl XLIII, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Arizona Cardinals, 27-23; MVP: Santonio Holmes, Pittsburgh, WR
• 2012 At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said

• 2013 21 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a market suicide bombing in Hangu, Pakistan
• 2013 26 people are killed after a fireworks truck explodes and causes a highway to collapse in Henan, China
• 2013 44th NAACP Image Awards: "Red Tails" wins Outstanding Motion Picture

• 2013 The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people
• 2013 Zenit-3SL, a Ukrainian-Russian carrier rocket, fails 40 seconds after liftoff and crashes into the Pacific Ocean

• 2014 14 people are killed after Mount Sinabung erupts in Indonesia

• 2014 Ray Guy (Oakland/LA Raiders) becomes second pure kicker, and first pure punter to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• 2014 Syrian civil war death toll reaches 130,000, while 4 million are displaced
• 2015 31st Sundance Film Festival: "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
• 2015 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Serbian ace Novak Đoković wins an Open era record 5th men's singles crown, beating Scotsman Andy Murray 7-6, 6-7, 6-3, 6-0
• 2015 France defeats Qatar, 25-22 to win the World Men's Handball Championship in Lusail, Qatar
• 2015 Super Bowl XLIX, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ: New England Patriots beat Seattle Seahawks, 28-24; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
• 2016 Alphabet, Google's parent company surpasses Apple as the world's most valuable company ($568bn vs $535bn), after releasing income results

• 2016 Myanmar's first freely elected parliament in 50 years has its opening session in Nay Pyi Taw
• 2016 Poor weather conditions strand 100,000 Chinese New Year travelers at a railway station in Guangzhou, China
• 2016 WHO declares a global public health emergency over the rapid spread of zika-linked conditions
• 2017 British MPs vote in favour of the European Union Bill, allowing the government to begin Brexit

• 2018 Archaeologists announce discovery of thousands of undetected structures in Mayan lowland civilisation, Guatemala, using Lidar, suggests population of 10 million
• 2018 The Indian government announces plan to give 500 million people free healthcare
• 2019 January 2019 was Australia's hottest month on record according to the Bureau of Meteorology

• 2020 Australian Open Women's Tennis: 21 year old American Sofia Kenin wins her first Grand Slam title with a 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 victory over Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain
• 2020 Largest swarm of locusts across East Africa leads Somalia to declare national emergency
• 2020 Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi, appointed the new Prime Minister of Iraq by President Barham Salih after 4 months of protests

• 2021 Wildfires ignite on the outskirts of Perth, Australia, forcing evacuations amid five-day COVID-19 lockdown
• 2021 Wisdom the albatross, the world's oldest known bird, hatches a chick at 70 at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge, North Pacific [1]
• 2022 60 people killed in attack by militants on Plaine Savo camp for displaced persons in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo [1]
• 2022 At age 44, Tom Brady, regarded as the greatest NFL quarterback of all time, announces his retirement after a 22 year career and a record 7 Super Bowl titles with the NE Patriots and TB Buccaneers. Lasts 40 days.
• 2022 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, 'Nobel Prize for Engineering' awarded to Masato Sagawa for inventing the neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnet [1]
• 2023 At age 45, Tom Brady, regarded as the greatest NFL quarterback of all time, announces his re-retirement after a 23 year career and a record 7 Super Bowl titles with the NE Patriots and TB Buccaneers

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