1 February 2025 (MIA)

North Macedonia

1834 – One of the most important collectors, publishers of Macedonian folk literature and man who fought for the national rebirth of Macedonians, Kuzman Sapkarev was born in Ohrid. His famous work is titled “Anthology of folk literature and science”. He died on 18 March 1909.

1994 – The Government of the Republic of Macedonia decided over the establishment of diplomatic relations between Macedonia and Finland.

1996 – UN Security Council accepted the proposal of the UN General Secretary from this date the forces for preventive deployment of UN (UNPREDEP) to remain fully independent operation in the Republic of Macedonia.

World

1884 – The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A–Ant, was published.

1946 – A press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.

1960 – Four black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s, Greensboro, N.C.

1968 – During the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon’s police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.

1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.

2003 – The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.