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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.
February 2, 1962 (Friday) John Uelses became the first person to surpass 16 feet (4.88m) in the pole vault, clearing the mark by 0.25 inches (6.4 mm) at the Millrose Games in New York City. Uelses was assisted by use of a pole made of fiberglass. [5] Prior to 1930, existing techniques limited the maximum height of vaulting to 14 feet (4.3 m).
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Launched. 1996; 28 years ago. ( 1996) (original) Current status. Active. Written in. HTML, JavaScript. Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Santa Monica, California, [1] which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them.
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)
February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 318 days remain until the end of the year (319 in leap years ).
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.