It's day one of 29, FWIW, (so I get to do a leap day later on)
It is also the day that the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated upon reentry
Today's number is one
| One is the first non zero number - really. |
| One is also the first odd number |
| One is the multiplicative identity. Any number times one is the original number |
| One is one squared. This is the only real number which is itself squared |
| One is its own cube and all higher powers, also unique |
| One is the square of its negative, unique among positive numbers |
| One is also, again uniquely, its own factorial |
| One is Hydrogen |
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One BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Piso |
| Ovid wrote the Ars Amatoria. |
| The Chinese Emperor, Ai of Han, died; succeeded by his nine year old his cousin, Ping of Han. One Wang Mang was appointed regent by the Grand Empress Dowager Wang, and Former regent Dong Xian committed suicide. And you thought you had it bad. |
| Augustus sent Gaius east to invade Parthia. Something about Armenia. |
| Ptolemy of Mauretania was born |
| Empress Fu and Empress Zhao Feiyan died |
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| Jesus, the son of God, was or was not born in this year or the following one or any one of many other years. |
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One CE was the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Paullus |
| Ovid wrote the poem Metamorphoses |
| Confucius was given his first royal title |
| Areius Paianeius became Archon of Athens |
| Gaius Caesar married Livilla |
| Quirinius became an advisor to Gaius in Armenia. Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, like his dad, also served in Armenia. |
| Publius Quinctilius Varus, who haunts these columns, and Claudia Pulchra had a son, Quinctilius Varus |
| Lucius Annaeus Gallio, an eventual proconsul was born |
| Arshak II of Iberia, Sapadbizes of Kush & Amanishakheto of Kush died |
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| Jesus, son of God, was or was not born in this year or the preceding one any one of many other years. |
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On 2/1 in |
| 1835 | Slavery was abolished in Mauritius |
| 1861 | Texas seceded from the US, largely to keep slavery in place |
| 1865 | Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment, ending slavery in the US (and Texas) |
| 1960 | Four black students staged the first Greensboro sit-in |
| 1964 |
The Beatles had their first number one hit in the US |
| 1979 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile |
| 1992 | The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal declared Warren Anderson to be a fugitive. He still is. |
| 1996 | Congress passed the Communications Decency Act |
| 1998 | Lillian E. Fishburne, an African American female, was promoted to Rear Admiral, the first ever |
| 2003 |
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" disintegrated upon reentry |
| 2004 |
Janet Jackson, GASP, flashed a breast at halftime & the rubes and boobs went batshit. So much for Communications Decency. |
| 2009 | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir’s inaugural cabinet was formed, making her not only Iceland's first female prime minister, but the world's first openly LGBT head of government |
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| Born this day in |
| 1888 | Charles January, a US soccer player who was off by a day |
| 1894 | John Ford, a US movie director and producer |
| 1894 |
James P. Johnson, a US pianist and composer |
| 1902 | Langston Hughes, US poet and author |
| 1904 | SJ Perleman, US humorist, author, and screenwriter |
| 1905 | Emilio G. Segre', a US physicist and Nobel Laureate |
| 1906 | Hildegarde, a US caberet singer |
| 1918 | Muriel Spark, a Scottish-Italian poet and author |
| 1928 | Tom Lantos, US Congressman |
| 1931 | Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia |
| 1937 |
Don Everly, a US singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Half of a brother act who reinvented harmony |
| 1937 |
Ray Sawyer, a US singer-songwriter (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) |
| 1946 |
Chris Clark a one hit wonder for Motown |
| 1951 |
Sonny Landreth, a US singer, songwriter and guitarist |
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Died this day in |
| 1851 | Mary Shelley, an Englishwoman, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, oh yeah, she wrote a book, too, about a monster |
| 1903 | Sir George Stokes, an Irish-English physicist & mathermatician, expecially fluid dynamics |
| 1944 | Piet Mondrian, a Dutch-American painter |
| 1976 | Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist, I think, but nobody's sure. |
| 1989 | Elaine de Kooning, a US painter |
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| 2003 |
The crew of the space shuttle “Challenger” :
Colonel Michael P. Anderson, pilot
Captain David M. Brown, pilot
Kalpana Chawla, engineer
Captain Laurel Clark, surgeon
Colonel Rick Husband, pilot
Commander William C. McCool, pilot
Colonel Ilan Ramon, pilot |
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| 2003 |
Mongo Santamaria a Cuban-American drummer and band leader |
| 2012 | Don Cornelius, US TV host & producer (Soul Train) |
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| Holidays, Holy Days, Celebrations, Observances and suchwhat |
| Mauritius celebrates the anniversary of the abolition of Slavery |
| It is the Feast of St. Brigid, patron saint of Ireland |
| Everybody celebrates Imbolc, right? |
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Black History Month starts |
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LGBT History Month starts |
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National Bird-Feeding Month starts |
| Today is NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY I wuz gonna celebrate, but I forgot to get a permit. |
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James P. (Jimmy) Johnson
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Hildegarde
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Dr. Hook
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I might be late arriving, sorry, but that’s life.
Crossposted from caucus 99%