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February 1: Imbolc / Saint Brigid's Day in Ireland; National Freedom Day in the United States

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

1329 – The Teutonic Knights successfully besieged the hillfort of Medvėgalis in Samogitia, Lithuania, and baptised the defenders in the Catholic rite.
1814 – More than 1,200 people died in the most destructive recorded eruption of Mayon in the Philippines.
1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty.
2009 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Iceland.

Menas of Ethiopia (d. 1563)
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (d. 1761)
Yolanda González (d. 1980)
Harry Styles (b. 1994)

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