MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Today is Monday, February 1, the 32nd day of 2010. There are 333 days left in the year.

1788 _ First U.S. steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet

1789 _ Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital, Thang Long

1884 _ First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published

1893 _ Thomas Edison completes world's first movie studio (West Orange, N.J.)

1896 _ Giacomo Puccini's Opera ``La Boheme" premieres in Turin

1902 _ China's Empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet

1918 _ Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb. 14)

1951 _ U.N. condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

1964 _ Beatles' ``I Want to Hold Your Hand" first No. 1 hit and stays No. 1 for seven weeks

1981 _ French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq