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February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 333 days remain until the end of the year (334 in leap years). Events. Pre-1600. 1327 ...
February 12: Red Hand Day; Shrove Monday (Western Christianity, 2024) Edvard Munch's The Scream. 1691 – A papal conclave convened to select a new pope after the death of Pope Alexander VIII. 1924 – George Gershwin 's composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York.
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
The Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II is being celebrated from June 2 to June 5, 2022, in the UK and Commonwealth to mark the 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952.
1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871) 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. 1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912) February 4: 1508 - Death of Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
Rick James (February 1, 1948 –August 06, 2004), American R&B and funk musician, would have turned 76 this year. Joe Sample (February 1, 1939–September 12, 2014), American jazz pianist and founding member of The Crusaders, would have turned 85 this year. Don Everly (February 1, 1937–August 21, 2021), American singer, one-half of The Everly ...
2016 (Monday) 2015 (Saturday) May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 229 days remain until the end of the year.
18 February 1745 – Alessandro Volta 's birthday. 15 February 1786 – Cat's Eye Nebula discovered. 18 February 1838 – Ernst Mach 's birthday. 11 February 1847 – Thomas Edison 's birthday. 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss 's death.