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Adding To Rannouch earlier events on February 1st

1884 : Oxford Dictionary debuts

1893 : First movie studio built

1908 : Portuguese king and heir assassinated

1929 : First Hollywood musical debuts

1943 : one of America's most highly decorated military units of World War II, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.

1958 : Elvis' last recording session before enlisting

1974 : Serial killer Ted Bundy strikes again

1966 : Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper dies

1997 : Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said he would open a "preliminary dialogue" with rebels holding 72 hostages in Lima, but again rejected their main demand that the government release their jailed comrades. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Herb Caen died in San Francisco at age 80.

2002 : President Bush responded to the collapse of Enron by proposing regulation reforms of 401(k) retirement plans. Justice Department investigators directed President Bush's staff to preserve the paper trail of any contact with Enron. Actress Winona Ryder was charged with four felony counts stemming from her shoplifting arrest at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Ryder was later convicted of felony grand theft and vandalism, and received three years' probation.) The NCAA placed Alabama on five years' probation, jolting the program with a two-year bowl ban and heavy scholarship reductions.

2003 : the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members

2006 : In his first case on the Supreme Court, new Justice Samuel Alito split with the court's conservatives, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection. French and German newspapers republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in what they called a defense of freedom of expression, sparking fresh anger from Muslims. United Airlines left bankruptcy after a painful restructuring that lasted more than three years.

Today's Birthdays:
Actor Stuart Whitman is 79.
Former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin is 76.
Singer Don Everly is 70.
Actor Garrett Morris is 70.
Singer Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is 70.
Actor Sherman Hemsley is 69.
Bluegrass singer Del McCoury is 68.
Jazz musician Joe Sample is 68.
Comedian Terry Jones is 65.
Actor-writer-producer Bill Mumy is 53.
Rock musician Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) is 53.
Rock singer Exene Cervenka is 51.
Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 42.
Country musician Dwayne Dupuy (Ricochet) is 42.
Actress Sherilyn Fenn is 42.
Lisa Marie Presley is 39.
Comedian and actor Pauly Shore is 39.
Actor Brian Krause is 38.
Jazz musician Joshua Redman is 38.
Rock musician Patrick Wilson (Weezer) is 38.
Actor Michael C. Hall is 36.
Rock musician Ron Welty is 36.
Rapper Big Boi (Outkast) is 32.
Country singer Julie Roberts is 28.
Actor Jarrett Lennon is 25.
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