February 1 is:
National Cake Pops Day
National Baked Alaska Day
National Dark Chocolate Day Studies show that dark chocolate can improve health and lower the risk of heart disease.
1709 – Alexander Selkirk was rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Birthday of Thomas Campbell (February 1, 1763), Irish religious leader who founded the Church of the Disciples of Christ in the U.S.
Publication of Federalist Paper #48: These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No Constitutional Control Over Each Other written by James Madison in 1788. Madison continues to discuss the separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Madison admits that power is by nature encroaching and speaks of the difficult task to prevent invasion of one branch into the workings of another. He singles out the legislative branch as being particularly successful in taking over power. As a final example, Madison describes legislative over-reach in the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Anniversary of the first meeting of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (1790) at New York City with Chief Justice John Jay presiding
1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 – The capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake) to York (now Toronto).
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on!
In 1876, a murder conviction effectively forced the “Molly Maguires “, to disband. They were violent, Pennsylvanian- Irish immigrant, anti-owner, coal miners.
February 1, 1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police began operations in 1920.
In 1968, Canada’s three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, were unified into the Canadian Forces.
February 1, 1979 – Convicted bank robber, Patty Hearst, was released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
February 1, 1979 – The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
February 1, 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped January 23, 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan. He was beheaded and mutilated by his captors on February 1, 2002.
February 1, 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board.