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Events on February 1

• 1168 Duke Henry the Lion marries the then twelve-year-old Matilda Plantagenet, daughter of King Henry II of England, at Minden Cathedral.
• 1899 Lina Hähnle founds the League for Bird Protection in Stuttgart, which is now known as the Nature Conservation Society of Germany.
• 1917 During the First World War, the German Navy begins unrestricted submarine warfare in the blockade zones around Great Britain and France and in the Mediterranean.
• 1933 Two days after Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the German Reichstag at Hitler's request. The National Socialists thereby take another step toward the “seizure of power” and the dissolution of the Weimar Republic.
• 1942 The US government station Voice of America broadcasts its first program in German via British transmission facilities.
• 1957 At NSU, the DKM 54, the first rotating-piston Wankel engine developed by Felix Wankel, is run on the test bench.
• 1979 During the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi has left the country.
• 1985 In Gauting, Ernst Zimmermann, chairman of Motor and Turbine Union (MTU), is shot dead in his home by members of the RAF.
• 1991 The US company id Software is founded. It is best known primarily for the computer games and game engines it developed in the 1990s, such as Doom and Quake.
• 2003 During its return from the STS-107 mission, NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart at an altitude of 60 km over Texas. All the crew members—Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael P. Anderson and Ilan Ramon—are killed.
• 2004 At the European Championship in Slovenia, the German national team becomes European handball champions with a 30:25 win over host nation Slovenia.
• 2009 In Iceland, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir takes over the reins of government. She is the first woman to hold this office in Iceland and the first female head of government worldwide to be in a same-sex partnership.

Born on February 1

• 1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer, dramatist and lyric poet
• 1882 Andreas of Greece, Prince of Greece
• 1894 John Ford, American film director
• 1894 James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer
• 1941 Karl Dall, German television presenter and comedian
• 1950 Mike Campbell, American musician
• 1962 Manuel Amoros, French footballer
• 1962 Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
• 1971 Michael C. Hall, American actor
• 1971 Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „1. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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