This Day in History: February 1

What the hell, why not do a "This Day in History" feature as well? Maybe in the future the two features ("This Day" and "Born this Day") will be combined, but we'll see.

1996: U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act regulating pornography on the internet.
1994: Portland: Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his attack on Nancy Kerrigan along with Tonya Harding.
1979: After Jimmy Carter commutes her sentence, convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison.
1968: Penn Central Transportation is formed by the merging of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads.
1968: Eddie Adams photographs and videotapes the execution of Nguyen Van Lem, Viet Cong oicer, by Nguyen Ngoc Loan.
1960: The first of the Greensboro sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, is begun by four black students.
1913: Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City, the world's largest train station.


1893: The first motion picture studio, dubbed the Black Maria, is created by Thomas Edison in West Orange, New Jersey.
1884: The first Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1862: Julia Ward Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in the Atlantic Monthly.


1861: Texas secedes from the United States.