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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: [FOLKLORE FAMILY] Today in History - Feb. 1st
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 07:32:54 -0500


Well, the month of January is shot!



Today is Thursday, February first, the 32nd day of 2001.
There are 333 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:
On February first, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest
at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they'd been refused
service.

On this date:
In 1861, Texas voted to secede from the Union.

In 1893, inventor Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first
motion picture studio, his "Black Maria," in West Orange, New Jersey.

In 1893, the opera "Manon Lescaut," by Giacomo Puccini, premiered in Turin,
Italy.

In 1896, Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin.

In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence.

In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units of World War
Two, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of
Japanese-Americans, was authorized.

In 1946, Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first
secretary-general of the United Nations.

In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan)
executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene
captured in a famous news photograph.

In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran
as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

In 1979, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank
robbery had been commuted by President Carter, left a federal prison near
San Francisco.

Ten years ago: Thirty-five people were killed when a US-Air jetliner crashed
atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
South African President F.W. de Klerk said he would repeal all remaining
apartheid laws.

Five years ago: Both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly to rewrite the
61-year-old Communications Act, freeing the exploding television, telephone
and home computer industries to jump into each other's fields.

One year ago: Senator John McCain defeated Texas Governor George W. Bush to
win the Republican New Hampshire primary;
Vice President Al Gore edged Bill Bradley to win the Democratic primary.

Today's Birthdays:
Actor Stuart Whitman is 73.
Former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin is 70.
Singer Don Everly is 64.
Actor Garrett Morris is 64.
Singer Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is 64.
Actor Sherman Hemsley is 63.
Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 62.
Jazz musician Joe Sample is 62.
Comedian Terry Jones is 59.
Singer Rick James is 49.
Actor-writer-producer Bill Mumy is 47.
Rock musician Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 47.
Rock singer Exene Cervenka (X) is 45.
Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 36.
Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 36.
Lisa Marie Presley is 33.
Jazz musician Joshua Redman is 32.
Comedian Pauly Shore is 31.
Rapper Big Boi (Outkast) is 26.
Actor Jarrett Lennon is 19.



"Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two
human beings."

-- Vicki Baum, Austrian-born author (1888-1960).


(Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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