February 1

On This Day In History
	NASA2003: Space shuttle Columbia destroyed On this day in 2003, while returning to Earth from an orbital mission, the U.S. space shuttle Columbia broke up catastrophically at an altitude of about 60 km (40 miles) over Texas, killing all seven crew members.
Crew of the space shuttle Columbia
Biography Of The Day
	Boris Yeltsin Born this day in 1931, Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia from 1990 to 1999, became in 1991 the first popularly elected leader in Russian history and guided his country through a decade of political and economic transition.
Boris Yeltsin taking the oath of office for the presidency of Russia, 1991.
More Events On This Day In History
	1979 The spacecraft Voyager 1 photographed Jupiter from a distance of 32.7 million km (20.3 million miles).
	1923 The private army of Blackshirts that had helped Benito Mussolini come to power in Italy was officially transformed into a national militia, the Voluntary Fascist Militia for National Security.
	1901 American motion-picture star Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio.
	1896 Giacomo Puccini premiered his opera La Bohème at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy.
1884	1884 The first of 10 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary was published in London, the final volume being published April 19, 1928.
1820	1820 In a battle fought at Cepeda, Argentina, federalist forces defeated unitarios, who were advocates of strong central government.