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