Sunday, February 1, 1998
The NFL Pro Bowl is held in Honolulu.
On the horizon
On Monday, February 2, President Clinton is scheduled to submit his budget to Congress.
On Tuesday, February 3, the court-martial of former Army Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney on sexual misconduct charges is scheduled.
On Wednesday, February 4, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair begins a four-day visit to the United States.
On Thursday, February 5, the Senate Agriculture Committee holds a hearing on the December global warming agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan.
On Friday, February 6, the NBA's All-Star Weekend gets under way.
On this day
In 1328, Charles IV of France, the last monarch in
the direct line of the Capetian dynasty, died.
In 1650, Rene Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician known as the father of modern philosophy, died.
In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court met for the first time, the
year after it was established under the Judiciary Act.
In 1793, Revolutionary France, having executed King Louis XVI,
declared war on England and Holland.
In 1840, the world's first dental college opened in Baltimore,
In 1851, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of
In 1861, Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America.
In 1862, Julia Ward Howe's poem "Battle Hymn of the
Republic" was first published in Atlantic Monthly, later to be
set to music.
In 1884, the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was
In 1893, Thomas Edison opened the world's first film studio in
West Orange, New Jersey.
In 1896, Giacomo Puccini's opera, "La Boheme," first staged
In 1901, Clark Gable, U.S. actor and Oscar winner for "It
Happened One Night," born.
In 1908, King Carlos I of Portugal was assassinated together
with his son in Lisbon.
In 1915, passport photographs were first required in Great
In 1934, Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolved all
political parties except his own Fatherland Front.
In 1942, Vidkun Quisling became prime minister of Norway.
In 1946, Hungary was declared a republic, with Zoltan Tildy as
president and Ferenc Nagy as prime minister.
In 1958, Egypt and Syria proclaimed the union of their two
countries in a state to be known as "The United Arab
In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran from
Paris after 15 years of exile spent mainly in Iraq.
In 1990, Bulgaria's government resigned after the ruling
Communists failed to entice the fledgling opposition movement
into a power-sharing deal until free elections.
In 1990, Yugoslavia deployed troops, tanks and warplanes in
Kosovo province, where police battled ethnic Albanians demanding
In 1991, South African President F.W. De Klerk opened
parliament with a speech promising the demolition of the
remaining pillars of apartheid.
In 1992, U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Camp David declaration which states that their two countries no longer
regard each other as adversaries.
In 1994, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali backed
the use of air power in Bosnia.
In 1995, Communist Vietnam opened a liaison office in Washington, D.C., for the time 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War.
Allegations of an affair with President Clinton has catapulted Monica Lewinsky into the national spotlight. And on the Internet, she is nearing cult status. Check out
Monica Lewinsky Online Fan Club.
Holidays and more
Malaysia marks City Day.
Lisa Marie Presley is 30.
Singer Don Everly is 61.
Actress Sherilynn Fenn is 33.
Actor Sherman Hemsley is 60.
Singer Rick James is 46.
Sources: Associated Press,
Chase's Calendar of Events 1997, J.P. Morgan