Historical Events In February - 01

1973  On this day in history monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame   

1974  On February - 01 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV   

1974  Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle on February - 01.   

1975  On February - 01 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65   

1975  On February - 01 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances   

1975  On February - 01 otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department   

1975  Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1976  "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV on this day in history.   

1976  On this day in history sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce   

1976  Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66 on February - 01.   

1977  Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives on February - 01.   

1977  On this day in history edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72   

1978  On February - 01 director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl   

1978  Harriet Tubman is first black woman honored on a US postage stamp on February - 01.   

1979  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile on February - 01.   

1979  Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter on February - 01.   

1979  On February - 01 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1979  Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1980  Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System on this day in history.   

1980  On February - 01 soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run   

1980  Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72 on February - 01.   

1981  Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell causes furore when he orders his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to a New Zealand batsman on this day in history.   

1981  Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York NY on February - 01.   

1981  Dutch Antilles census is 231,932 on February - 01.   

1981  French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq on this day in history.   

1981  Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG on this day in history.   

1981  On this day in history donald W Douglas, US aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88   

1982  Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium in Alberta on February - 01.   

1982  On this day in history late Night With David Letterman makes its debut on NBC-TV.   

1982  Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) on February - 01.   

1983  On this day in history new channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel allyou got to do is PAY   

1983  On this day in history uSSR performs underground nuclear test   

1983  On this day in history tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies   

1984  On this day in history china & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations   

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1261  On this day in history birth of walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)   

1459  On this day in history birth of conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508)   

1462  Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516) was born on this day in history.   

1552  On this day in history birth of edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician (defended common law)   

1603  On this day in history birth of michael Trumper, composer   

1605  On this day in history birth of isaac Aboab de Fonseca, Portuguese/Neth rabbi/mystic   

1633  Gabriel Schutz, composer was born on this day in history.   

1635  On this day in history birth of marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)   

0656  Sigebert III, king of Austrasia, dies at about 25 on February - 01.   

1204  Death of Alexius IV Angelus, regent of Byzantium (1203-04), murdered on this day in history.   

1248  On February - 01 hendrik II, duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies   

1294  Louis II, the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies on February - 01.   

1328  Charles IV, the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies on this day in history.   

1502  On February - 01 olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies   

1542  Death of Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480) on this day in history.   

1563  Death of Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever) on February - 01.