Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 1

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 * 1327 – Fourteen-year-old Edward III was crowned King of England, but with the country ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
 * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn was signed, ending the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.
 * 1662 – Sino-Dutch conflicts: The Dutch East India Company's rule in Taiwan ended after a siege by the Ming loyalist Koxinga.
 * 1896 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, eventually becoming one of the most frequently performed operas internationally.
 * 1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, began broadcasting to Germany during World War II.
 * 1957 – Invented by German engineer Felix Wankel, the first working prototype of the Wankel rotary engine ran for the first time at the research and development department of NSU Motorenwerke AG.
 * 1960 – Four African American students staged the first Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
 * 1972 – Kuala Lumpur (pictured), the capital of Malaysia, was granted city status.
 * 1978 – After having served 42 days in prison for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before the formal sentencing hearing.
 * 1985 – Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashed shortly after takeoff from Minsk National Airport, killing fifty-eight people on board.
 * 2001 – The Timor Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-Indonesian independence movement Falintil.
 * 2003 – All seven crew members aboard Space Shuttle Columbia were killed when the orbiter disintegrated over Texas during reentry.
 * 2012 – Following an Egyptian Premier League match in Port Said, Al Masry fans rioted and violently attacked Al Ahly supporters, resulting in 74 deaths.
 * 2021 – The Burmese military staged the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which deposed the democratically-elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, and sparked nationwide protests and a civil war.


 * Born/died this day: | Alexios I of Trebizond |d|1222| Francesco Maria Veracini |b|1690| Thomas Campbell |b|1763| Erik Adolf von Willebrand |b|1870|  Clara Butt |b|1872|  Stanley Matthews |b|1915| Hassan Al-Turabi |b|1932  Michelle Akers |b|1966| George Whipple |d|1976|  Wojdan Shaherkani |b|1996