History for February 1

History for February 1 - On-This-Day.com

National Black History Month begins. 2014 theme is “Civil Rights in America.” See www.asalh.org

Happy Birthday! Don Everly, Garrett Morris, Stuart Whitman

1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. 


1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera. 


1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City. 


1920 - The first armored car was introduced. 



1958 - The United Arab Republic was formed by a union of Egypt and Syria. It was broken 1961.


1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter. 


2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.