Today is Monday, the 1st day of February of the year 2021...
February 1 is the 32nd day of the year
333 days remain until the end of the year
The sun rises at 7:14 am
and sunset will be at 5:34 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 20 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit will be at 12:24 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:34 am
The first low tide will be at 7:50 am
The next high tide will be at 1:52 pm.
and the next low tide at 8:04 pm.
The Moon is 83.4% visible; a Waning Gibbous
Last Quarter Moon in 3 days on Thursday the 4th of February of 2021 at 9:37 am
Today is also…
Abolition of Slavery Day in Mauritius
Federal Territory Day in Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, Malaysia
Heroes Day in Rwanda
Imbolc in Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, and some Neopagan groups in the Northern hemisphere
Memorial Day of the Republic in Hungary
The start of Black History Month in the United States and Canada
On this day in Black History…
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
1894 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (d. 1955)
1902 – Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (d. 1967)
1937 – Garrett Morris, American actor and comedian
1948 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004)
Also on this day in history….
1861 – American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1896 – La bohème premieres at the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1964 – The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
1979 – Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
2009 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government.
And if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this special day with…
1894 – John Ford, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1901 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
1904 – S.J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1918 – Muriel Spark, Scottish playwright and poet (d. 2006)
1924 – Richard Hooker, American novelist (d. 1997)
1928 – Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American academic and politician (d. 2008)
1931 – Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)
1937 – Don Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 – Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist, author, and academic
1939 – Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (d. 2014)
1942 – Terry Jones, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1947 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
1951 – Sonny Landreth, American guitarist and songwriter
1956 – Exene Cervenka, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Meg Cabot, American author and screenwriter
1968 – Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter and actress
1969 – Andrew Breitbart, American journalist, author, and publisher (d. 2012)
1979 – Jason Isbell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1994 – Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter