February 1st, 2023.

On this day.

What happened on February 1st, 2023?

• A Chinese surveillance balloon is spotted flying over the United States.

Basic facts.

Basic facts and information about this date.

• 1 month and 22 days have passed since February 1st, 2023.
• Week Number: This date occurred during Week 05 of 2023.
• Leap Year: 2023 is NOT a leap year.
• Unix Timestamp: The Unix Timestamp for this date is 1675209600.

Around this time.

News stories, pop culture trends, and other events that happened around February 1st, 2023.

• January 2nd, 2023: Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffers a cardiac arrest during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
• January 3rd, 2023: The Republican Party fails to elect a new House speaker.
• January 4th, 2023: West Ham co-chairman David Gold passes away at the age of 86.
• January 4th, 2023: Amazon announces plans to cut more than 18,000 jobs globally.
• January 4th, 2023: Quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger is extradited back to Idaho.
• January 5th, 2023: The US House of Representatives fails to elect a speaker after 11 rounds of voting.
• January 5th, 2023: El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzmán López, is arrested in Mexico.
• January 5th, 2023: Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp comes out as gay in a TikTok video.
• January 6th, 2023: Former soccer player Gianluca Vialli passes away at the age of 58.
• January 6th, 2023: Republican Kevin McCarthy is elected US House speaker after an historic 15 rounds of voting.
• January 6th, 2023: Vince McMahon returns to the board of the WWE five months after retiring.
• January 8th, 2023: Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro storm Brazil's Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace.
• January 9th, 2023: Soccer: Gareth Bale announces his retirement.
• January 10th, 2023: Stephanie McMahon resigns as the co-CEO of WWE.
• January 10th, 2023: Multiple media outlets report that the WWE has been sold to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
• January 10th, 2023: Netflix releases the documentary "The Hatched Wielding Hitchhiker".
• January 10th, 2023: Prince Harry releases his memoir "Spare".
• January 10th, 2023: Tyre Nichols is beaten to death by five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee.
• January 10th, 2023: The last king of Greece, Constantine II of Greece, dies at the age of 82.
• January 11th, 2023: All US flights are grounded due to a computer system glitch.
• January 12th, 2023: Lisa Marie Presley dies at the age of 54.
• January 12th, 2023: Dancer Michael Flatley is diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of cancer.
• January 12th, 2023: NBC News reports that Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland is facing domestic abuse charges.
• January 12th, 2023: Miley Cyrus releases the song "Flowers".
• January 13th, 2023: The film Plane is released.
• January 14th, 2023: The Romanian police seize several luxury cars from social media influencer Andrew Tate.
• January 14th, 2023: At least 44 people are killed after a Russian missile hits an apartment building in Dnipro, Ukraine.
• January 15th, 2023: 72 people are killed after Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashes in Pokhara, Nepal.
• January 15th, 2023: The first episode of "The Last of Us" is aired on television.
• January 16th, 2023: Mafia godfather Matteo Messina Denaro is arrested in Palermo, Sicily.
• January 17th, 2023: Greta Thunberg is arrested by the police during a coal mine protest in Luetzerath, Germany.
• January 18th, 2023: Singer and guitarist David Crosby dies at the age of 81.
• January 18th, 2023: Microsoft announces plans to cut 10,000 jobs.
• January 18th, 2023: Ukrainian Internal Affairs minister Denys Monastyrsky and nine other people are killed in a helicopter crash in Brovary, Ukraine.
• January 19th, 2023: Jacinda Ardern announces that she will be resigning as the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• January 19th, 2023: Actor Alec Baldwin is charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter relating to the Rust shooting incident.
• January 19th, 2023: Protests begin in France over government proposals to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years old.
• January 20th, 2023: Google's parent company, Alphabet, announces plans to cut 12,000 jobs.
• January 21st, 2023: Ten people are killed during a mass shooting at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, California.
• January 23rd, 2023: Soccer: Everton sack Frank Lampard.
• January 23rd, 2023: Former top FBI official Charles McGonigal is arrested over his ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
• January 23rd, 2023: Seven people are killed during a mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California.
• January 24th, 2023: Adult Swim ends its relationship with Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland following news that he was arrested for domestic abuse in 2020.
• January 25th, 2023: Germany confirms that it will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
• January 25th, 2023: Chris Hipkins becomes the new Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• January 25th, 2023: The United States confirms that it is sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
• January 25th, 2023: Actress Cynthia Jane Williams passes away at the age of 75.
• January 26th, 2023: Five Memphis police officers are charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols.
• January 27th, 2023: The video game "Dead Space" (remake) is released.
• January 27th, 2023: Video footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols is released to the public.
• January 27th, 2023: 45-year-old Nicola Bulley goes missing in St. Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire, England.
• January 28th, 2023: WWE: Cody Rhodes wins the 2023 Royal Rumble.
• This date: February 1st, 2023
• February 3rd, 2023: The video game "Dead Island 2" is released.
• February 3rd, 2023: A freight train carrying vinyl chloride derails in East Palestine, Ohio.
• February 3rd, 2023: PinkPantheress and Ice Spice release the song "Boy's a liar Pt. 2".
• February 4th, 2023: The United States shoots down a Chinese surveillance balloon that had been flying over the country for 8 days.
• February 5th, 2023: Pakistan's former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, dies at the age of 79.
• February 6th, 2023: 47,000 people are killed after two earthquakes strike Turkey and Syria.
• February 6th, 2023: Soccer: The Premier League charges Manchester City with more than 100 breaches of financial rules.
• February 6th, 2023: Ohio train derailment: All residents within a 1-by-2-mile radius are forced to evacuate.
• February 7th, 2023: LeBron James breaks the NBA all-time scoring record.
• February 9th, 2023: Shares in Alphabet fall after Google's new AI chatbot Bard gets an answer wrong.
• February 10th, 2023: The video game "Hogwarts Legacy" is released.
• February 10th, 2023: The United States shoots down a car-sized UFO flying above Alaska.
• February 11th, 2023: NORAD shoots down an unidentified flying object that violated Canadian airspace.
• February 11th, 2023: Sam Smith raises eyebrows after he attends the 2023 Brit Awards in an inflated latex outfit.
• February 12th, 2023: Super Bowl LVII: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, and Rihanna performs at the halftime show.
• February 12th, 2023: Rihanna reveals that she is pregnant again.
• February 12th, 2023: De La Soul co-founder, Trugoy the Dove (David Jude Jolicoeur), dies at the age of 54.
• February 12th, 2023: The United States shoots down an unidentified flying object over Lake Huron in Michigan.
• February 12th, 2023: Cyclone Gabrielle hits New Zealand.
• February 13th, 2023: Three students are killed during a mass shooting at Michigan State University.
• February 14th, 2023: Microsoft permanently disables Internet Explorer.
• February 15th, 2023: American actress Raquel Welch dies at the age of 82.
• February 15th, 2023: Nicola Sturgeon announces that she will be resigning as the first minister of Scotland.
• February 15th, 2023: 42 people are killed after a bus crashes in the Gualaca District in Panama.
• February 16th, 2023: The family of actor Bruce Willis announce that he has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
• February 16th, 2023: US Senator John Fetterman checks into hospital with clinical depression.
• February 17th, 2023: The superhero film "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" is released.
• February 18th, 2023: The body of Ghana soccer player Christian Atsu is pulled from the debris of the Turkey earthquake.
• February 19th, 2023: Actor Richard Belzer dies at the age of 78.
• February 19th, 2023: The body of missing woman Nicola Bulley is found in the River Wyre.
• February 19th, 2023: Meta launches a subscription service called "Meta Verified" for Facebook and Instagram.
• February 20th, 2023: US President Joe Biden makes a surprise visit to Ukraine.
• February 21st, 2023: Andrew Tate's detention in Romania is extended for another 30 days.
• February 23rd, 2023: English football commentator John Motson dies at the age of 77.
• February 23rd, 2023: Internet drama: Selena Gomez announces that she is taking a break from social media amid reports that she is feuding with Hailey Bieber and Kylie Jenner.
• February 25th, 2023: Hundreds of US newspapers drop the "Dilbert" cartoon after its creator, Scott Adams, posts a racist rant on YouTube.
• February 26th, 2023: Boxing: Tommy Fury defeats Jake Paul by split decision in Saudi Arabia.
• February 26th, 2023: Partisans destroy a Russian surveillance plane in Belarus.
• February 26th, 2023: 63 migrants die after their boat sinks off the coast of Italy.
• February 27th, 2023: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district.
• February 27th, 2023: The White House gives agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from federal-owned devices.
• March 1st, 2023: 57 people are killed after two trains collide in Greece.
• March 3rd, 2023: The boxing movie "Creed III" is released.
• March 3rd, 2023: South Carolina: Alex Murdaugh is found guilty of murdering his wife and son.
• March 3rd, 2023: It is reported that US President Joe Biden had a cancerous lesion removed from his chest.
• March 3rd, 2023: Four American citizens are kidnapped by cartel members in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Personality traits.

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Horoscope, birthstone, and birth flower information.

Zodiac and birthstone information.

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• Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on February 1st, 2023, will have the star sign Aquarius.
• Zodiac Element: Air.
• Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2023 is the year of the Rabbit (Yin Fire).
• The Life Path Number for this date is 1.
• Native American Zodiac: February 1st, 2023 falls under the Otter.
• Birthstone: A person during the month of February will have the birthstone Amethyst.
• Birth flower (February): The Violet and the Primrose.

Holidays.

National holidays and famous events that fall on the 1st of February.

• The Memorial Day of the Republic (Hungary)

Conception dates.

Conception estimates for this date.

Warning! These conception dates are based on broad estimates.

• A baby that was born on February 1st, 2023 was most likely conceived around May 11th, 2022.
• The due date for a baby that was conceived on February 1st, 2023 is close to October 25th, 2023.

Time difference & statistics.

Here are some fun statistics about February 1st, 2023.

• A total of 50 days have passed since this date.
• 7 weeks have passed.
• 4,320,000 seconds have passed since the February 1st, 2023.
• If you were born on this day, your heart has beated approximately 5,040,000 times.
• Since February 1st, 2023, the Earth has travelled approximately 2,229,120,000 miles through space.
• If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 720,000 times.
• If you were born on this day, you have taken approximately 371,520 steps. That's about 165 miles!
• Since this date, 51,840 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere!
• How long ago was February 1st?

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