History for February 1

History for February 1 - On-This-Day.com

Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999

• 1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.
• 1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."
• 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed a Joint Resolution submitting the proposed 13th Amendment to the states.
• 1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
• 1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
• 1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
• 1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter.
• 2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.