February 1---------------------1790 In New York City, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time./////1861 American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States./////1865 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.//////1876 A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the Molly Maguires, to disband.//////1884 The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.//////1893 Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.//////1942 World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater./////1942 Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.//////1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
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