1 February

Events which occurred on the 1st of February.

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1884: The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1901: Actor Clark Gable is born.
1931: Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin is born.
1947: Physicist Frank J. Tipler is born.
1958: The United States launches Earth's second satellite, Explorer 1, in answer to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 four months earlier. (ST reference: Spaceflight Chronology)
1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. and other protestors are arrested in Dallas.
1976: Noted quantum mechanics physicist Werner Heisenberg dies.
1979: NASA's probe Voyager 1 takes photographs of Jupiter.
2003: Columbia's seven astronauts are killed when the space shuttle breaks up in Earth's atmosphere.

1969: The third installment of TOS comic: "Life Form Nonexistent" is released.
1980: The 20th installment of TOS comic: "Dilithium Dilemma" is published in daily newspapers by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
1981: The 15th installment of TOS comic: "Heads of State" is published.
1982: The 99th installment of TOS comic: "Restructuring Is Futile" is published.
1983: The 80th installment of TOS comic: "Taking Shape" is published.
1988: TNG episode: "11001001" airs in syndication (week of).
1992: TNG novel: Spartacus is published by Pocket Books.
1993

2000: ST reference: The Klingon Hamlet is published.
2002: SCE omnibus: Miracle Workers is published.
2004: TNG - A Time to... novel: A Time to Be Born is published.
2005: SCE eBook: Creative Couplings, Book 2 is released.
2007: TOS - Crucible novel: The Star to Every Wandering is published.
2017: TOS comic: "Sam" is released by IDW Publishing.
2018: Graphic Novel Collection's Volume 29 omnibus by Eaglemoss Collections reprints UK comic strips "Vibrations in Time", "The Aging World", "By Order of the Empire", "Creeping Death", "Ground Zero", "The Collector", and "To Swiftly Go...".
2023: ST - Godshock comic: "Part 4" is published.