February first

Today's Highlight in History:
On February first, 1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they'd been refused service.

On this date:
In 1861, Texas voted to secede from the Union.

In 1893, inventor Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio, his %26quot;Black Maria,%26quot; in West Orange, New Jersey.

In 1896, Puccini's opera %26quot;La Boheme%26quot; premiered in Turin.

In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came into existence.

In 1943, one of America's most highly decorated military units of World War Two, the 442d Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.