In the present day is Saturday, Feb. 1, the thirty second day of 2025. There are 333 days left within the 12 months.
In the present day in historical past:
On Feb. 1, 1960, 4 Black school college students started a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the place that they had been refused service.
Additionally on this date:
In 1865, abolitionist John S. Rock turned the primary Black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
In 1943, throughout World Struggle II, one in every of America’s most extremely adorned army items, the 442nd Regimental Fight Staff, made up virtually solely of Japanese People, was activated.
In 1959, males in Switzerland rejected giving girls the correct to vote by a greater than 2-to-1 margin in a referendum. (Swiss girls lastly gained the correct to vote in 1971.)
In 1979, Iranian non secular chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (hoh-MAY’-nee) was welcomed house by hundreds of thousands in Tehran as he ended practically 15 years of exile.
In 1991, an arriving USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter airplane on a runway at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport, leading to 35 deaths.
In 1994, Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, pleaded responsible in Portland, Oregon, to racketeering for his half within the assault on determine skater Nancy Kerrigan in change for a 24-month sentence and a $100,000 tremendous.
In 2002, Wall Road Journal journalist Daniel Pearl was killed by Islamist militants in Pakistan after being kidnapped 9 days earlier.
In 2003, the area shuttle Columbia broke aside because it re-entered the earth’s ambiance, killing all seven crew members: commander Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; payload commander Michael Anderson; mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark; and payload specialist Ilan Ramon.
In 2016, the World Well being Group declared a world emergency over the explosive unfold of the Zika virus, which was linked to start defects within the Americas.
In the present day’s birthdays:
- Actor Garrett Morris is 88.
- Political commentator Fred Barnes is 82.
- Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 60.
- Actor Sherilyn Fenn is 60.
- U.S. Soccer Corridor of Famer Michelle Akers is 59.
- Comic-actor Pauly Shore is 57.
- Actor Michael C. Corridor is 54.
- Rapper Massive Boi (Outkast) is 50.
- Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell is 46.
- TV persona Lauren Conrad is 39.
- Blended martial artist Ronda Rousey is 38.
- Actor Julia Garner is 31.
- Singer-actor Harry Kinds is 31.