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February 1
| 1327 | Edward III is coronated King of England. | |
| 1587 | Elizabeth I, Queen of England, signs the Warrant of Execution for Mary Queen of Scots. | |
| 1633 | The tobacco laws of Virginia are codified, limiting tobacco production to reduce dependence on a single-crop economy. | |
| 1793 | France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands. | |
| 1861 | A furious Governor Sam Houston storms out of a legislative session upon learning that Texas has voted 167-7 to secede from the Union. | |
| 1902 | U.S. Secretary of State John Hay protests Russian privileges in China as a violation of the “open door policy.” | |
| 1905 | Germany contests French rule in Morocco. | |
| 1909 | U.S. troops leave Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president. | |
| 1930 | A Loening Air Yacht of Air Ferries makes its first passenger run between San Francisco and Oakland, California.. | |
| 1942 | Planes of the U.S. Pacific fleet attack Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. | |
| 1943 | American tanks and infantry are battered at German positions at Fais pass in North Africa. | |
| 1944 | U.S. Army troops invade two Kwajalein Islands in the Pacific. | |
| 1945 | U.S. Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 American survivors of the Bataan Death March. | |
| 1951 | Third A-bomb tests are completed in the desert of Nevada. | |
| 1960 | Four black students stage a sit-in at a segregated Greensboro, N.C. lunch counter. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon B. Johnson rejects Charles de Gaulle’s plan for a neutral Vietnam. | |
| 1965 | Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 others are arrested in protest against voter discrimination in Alabama. | |
| 1968 | U.S. troops drive the North Vietnamese out of Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon. | |
| 1968 | South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu declares martial law. | |
| 1986 | Two days of anti-government riots in Port-au-Prince result in 14 dead. | |
| Born on February 1 | ||
| 1552 | Sir Edward Coke, English jurist who helped the development of English law with his arguments for the supremacy of common law over royal prerogative. | |
| 1878 | Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. | |
| 1901 | Clark Gable, American film actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone With the Wind). | |
| 1902 | Langston Hughes, African-American poet | |
| 1931 | Boris Yeltsin, The first president of the Republic of Russia and prime minister of the Russian Federation. | |
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