1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.

February 6, 1939 Elvis Presley's father Vernon is released from the Parchman Farm penitentiary after serving eight months of a three year sentence for altering a check from 4 dollars to 40 dollars. 

1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.

1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.

1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

 buzz wrote: 
Brotha gonna need some scratch first.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
alas

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
history is so…yesterday. tell us about tomorrow.

2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.

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1959 – Dyatlov Pass incident

Today in Beatles History

February 1

1962

Start of validity of contract with Brian. 
Performance at the Thistle Cafe, West Kirkby, Wirral. 1st gig under Brian's management

1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

The Bath Riots (1917)

1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.