Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/February/February 1

February 1:

Television series
 * 1964 The Daleks, a serial in the Doctor Who series, finishes airing on the BBC

Births
 * 1908 - George Pal (d. 1980), a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre

Deaths
 * 1851 - Mary Shelley (b. 1797), a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
 * 1940 - Philip Francis Nowlan (b. 1888), an American science fiction author and creator of the Buck Rogers character
 * 1977 - Edmond Hamilton (b. 1904), an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century

Anniversaries and events
 * 1933 - The last of six parts of the science fiction disaster novel When Worlds Collide, by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, is serialized in the February issue of Blue Book