February 1st
1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1968 - Daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, and first wife of Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley is born.
1999 - Tony Blair reveals he had been in a rock band at school called The Ugly Rumours.
2000 - Badly Drawn Boy buys back his own hat in a charity auction after it was stolen.
2001 - Walkers are warned to avoid the white cliffs of Dover after part of the chalk face collapsed into the sea.
2002 - A US scientist claims to have found the world's oldest living creature - an 11,700-year-old creosote bush in Palm Springs, California. It has survived fierce winds, baking heat and sandstorms by continually cloning itself.
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