Today is Monday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2010. There are 333 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Feb. 1, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., which refused to serve them; similar protests sprang up across the South.
ON THIS DATE
In 1943, one of America’s most highly decorated military units of World War II, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head; the incident was captured on camera. Richard Nixon announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members.
In 2009, Olympic great Michael Phelps acknowledged “regrettable” behavior and “bad judgment” after a photo in a British newspaper showed him inhaling from a marijuana pipe.
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