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* 1979: The Ayatollah Khomeini returned to [[Directory:Iran|Iran]] from exile in [[Directory:France|France]], receiving a tumultuous welcome. | * 1979: The Ayatollah Khomeini returned to [[Directory:Iran|Iran]] from exile in [[Directory:France|France]], receiving a tumultuous welcome. |
Revision as of 16:23, 1 February 2008
February 1 in history:
- 1963: The Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) was incorporated as a private U.S. company to establish, working with the telecommunications administrations of other countries, a commercial communications satellite system.
- 1960: Four African American students staged a sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina; by February 5, 300 students were participating, and a movement of sit-ins at public segregrated facilities was launched across the South.
- 1944: During World War II, after an effective preliminary bombardment, the first of 40,000 U.S. troops landed on the Marshall Island atoll of Kwajalein; within a week the atoll had been taken from the Japanese.
- 1896: La Bohème, the most enduringly popular of Giacomo Puccini's many operas, was first performed, at the Teatro Regio (Turin), under Arturo Toscanini.