A lot of historic events have been recorded in the previous they usually maintain a significant significance to the world and other people dwelling in it. These events have additionally contributed loads to the adjustments that we’re seeing in the present day together with improvement and developments. These events additionally included wars and the deaths of tens of millions as a result of inevitable circumstances. While some events occurred straight away, some occurred over a few years or a long time. With that stated, all of those are essential for all of us to know for understanding human historical past. For those that don’t know about the timeline, we have now created an inventory of some essential events that took place on in the present day’s date i.e., 1 February.

1946 – Election of first UN secretary-general

It was on 1 February 1946 when Norwegian politician and diplomat Trygve Lie was elected as the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. A day after this, he was formally put in by the General Assembly at its 22nd assembly and he held the publish for the subsequent seven years (1946-1953).

1979 – Jupiter’s {photograph}

One of the greatest photos by NASA, the spacecraft Voyager 1 on 1 February 1979 took {a photograph} of Jupiter from a variety of round 20 million miles. Through this image, the scientists had been capable of spot the totally different colors with many main variations from the different photos of the planet.

2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia catastrophe

On this unlucky date of 1 February, NASA’s area shuttle ‘Columbia’ broke up catastrophically on its manner again to Earth. The shuttle was at an altitude of about 40 miles (60 km) over Texas when the catastrophe took place, leaving all seven crew members useless. The crew included commander Rick Husband together with astronauts William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon.

2009 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was sworn in as Iceland’s PM

On 1 February 2009, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was sworn in as the first feminine prime minister of Iceland and served from 2009 to 2013. She additionally turned the world’s first overtly homosexual head of presidency.

2021 – Military seized energy in Myanmar

Launching a significant protest towards Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically-elected authorities, Myanmar’s army seized energy in a coup in early morning raids. This additionally led to an abrupt halt in the nation’s try to transition in direction of democracy.

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