Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 1
February 1: Imbolc (Northern Hemisphere), Feast of St. Brigid of Kildare (Western Christianity).
- 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada was moved from Newark to York, which was judged to be less vulnerable to attack by the United States.
- 1884 – The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary, a 352-page volume that covered words from A to Ant, was published.
- 1946 – As a result of a compromise between the major powers within the United Nations, Norwegian politician Trygve Lie was elected as the first UN Secretary-General.
- 1957 – Invented by German mechanical engineer Felix Wankel, the first working prototype of the Wankel rotary engine (pictured) ran for the first time at the research and development department of German manufacturer NSU Motorenwerke AG.
- 2003 – The NASA Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere on its 28th and final mission, killing all seven crew members.
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