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On this day: February 1

POSTED: 10:51 PM PST Jan 31, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 31, 2013

The Beatles hit No. 1 for the first time in America, tragedy strikes space shuttle Columbia, and Janet Jackson suffers a Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," all on this day.

OTD February 1 - Langston Hughes — 10 / 48

Library of Congress

1902: Writer and social activist Langston Hughes, one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form jazz poetry and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, is born in Joplin, Mo.

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OTD February 1 - HP-35 calculator

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