Feb. 1, 1862 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
1790 The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York.
1861 Texas voted to leave the Union at a Secession Convention in Austin.
1922 In one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries, movie director William Desmond Taylor was shot to death in his Los Angeles home; the killing has never been solved.
1942 The Voice of America broadcast its first program to Europe, relaying it through the facilities of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
1946 Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
1960 Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they had been refused service.
1962 The Ken Kesey novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was published by Viking Press.
1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.
1982 "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC.
1991 Thirty-four people were killed when an arriving USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
2003 The space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.
10 years ago President George W. Bush responded to the collapse of Enron by proposing regulation reforms of 401(k) retirement plans.
Five years ago: The departing top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that improving security in Baghdad would take fewer than half as many extra troops as President George W. Bush had chosen to commit.
One year ago: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters' demands that he step down immediately and leave the country.
Thought for today "Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other." — William Faulkner, American novelist and poet (1897-1962)
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