Today, February 1<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Texas secedes from the United States.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution into effect.<\/p>\n
1893 \u2013 Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 The U.S. Navy conducts the Marshalls\u2013Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2013 The prototype of the MiG-17 makes its first flight<\/p>\n
1968 \u2013 During the Tet offensive; In Saigon, National Police Chief Nguy\u1ec5n Ng\u1ecdc Loan summarily executes Viet Cong Captain Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n L\u00e9m\u00a0\u00a0for murdering Lt Colonel Nguy\u1ec5n Tuan along with his mother, his wife and 5 of their 6 children.<\/p>\n
1974 \u2013 A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil kills 189 people and injures another 293.<\/p>\n
1979 \u2013 Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years in exile.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 A runway collision between US Air Flight 1493,\u00a0 a Boeing 737, and SkyWest Flight 5569, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 35 people, and injuries to 30 others of the total 102 passengers and crews aboard.<\/p>\n
2002 \u2013 Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his moslem captors.<\/p>\n
2003 \u2013 Unknowingly damaged during launch, Space Shuttle Columbia<\/em> disintegrates during reentry of mission STS-107, killing all 7 astronauts aboard.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 moslems are trampled to death and another 244 injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, February 1 1861 \u2013 Texas secedes from the United States. 1865 \u2013 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution into effect. 1893 \u2013 Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey. 1942 \u2013 The U.S. Navy conducts the Marshalls\u2013Gilberts raids, the first … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89706,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64399\/revisions\/89706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}