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"), Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999 

Garrett Morris 1937 - Actor, comedian, Don Everly 1937 - Singer (The Everly Brothers), Pauly Shore 1970 - Comedian, actor ("Encino Man") 


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


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


1913 - Grand Central Terminal (also known as Grand Central Station) opened in New York City, NY. It was the largest train station in the world. 


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


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

1968 - During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The scene was captured in a news photograph. 


1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was welcomed in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile. 

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