History for February 1

History for February 1 - On-This-Day.com:
John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney) 1894 - Director, Clark Gable 1901 - Actor ("It Happened One Night", "Gone with the Wind"), Stuart Whitman 1928 - Actor ("Cimarron Strip", "The Longest Day")


Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999, Bob Shane 1934 - Singer (The Kingston Trio), Garrett Morris 1937 - Actor, comedian


1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.


1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."


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 - Canada's Royal North West Mounted Police changed their name to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The organization was commissioned in 1873.


1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.


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