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Ghost Stories was a U.S. pulp magazine that published 64 issues between 1926 and 1932. It was one of the earliest competitors to Weird Tales, the first magazine to specialize in the fantasy and occult fiction genre. Ghost Stories was a companion magazine to True Story and True Detective Stories, and focused almost entirely on stories about ghosts, many of which were written by staff writers but presented under pseudonyms as true confessions. These were often accompanied by faked photographs to make the stories appear more believable. Ghost Stories also ran original and reprinted contributions, including works by Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, and Frank Belknap Long. Among the reprints were Agatha Christie's "The Last Seance" (under the title "The Woman Who Stole a Ghost"), several stories by H. G. Wells, and Charles Dickens's "The Signal-Man". The magazine was initially successful, but had begun to lose readers by 1930, and ceased publication at the start of 1932. (Full article...)

Therese Huber

• ... that the cultural and literary journal Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände was most successful under its only female editor, Therese Huber (pictured)?
• ... that the largest civil rights demonstration of the 1960s took place when more than 450,000 New York City students boycotted school to protest segregation in public schools?
• ... that Canadian professor and writer W. G. Hardy was given the honorary tribal chief title of "Chief Running Eagle" by the Sarcees?
• ... that Sunrise, Inverness Copse, a World War I watercolour by Paul Nash, was one of what he described as "fifty drawings of muddy places on the Front"?
• ... that of the initial
  infected by a novel coronavirus in China, two-thirds had been directly exposed to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan
  ?
• ... that Sarah Ellerby's flight to the United States to play professional pool was diverted due to the September 11 attacks?
• ... that growth in the brown seaweed Zanardinia typus occurs at the base of the hairs that grow around the edge of the frond?
• ... that James Thompson, who made the first plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?

Patrick Mahomes

• In American football, the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers to win the Super Bowl (MVP Patrick Mahomes pictured).
• At the British Academy Film Awards, 1917 wins Best Film, along with six other awards.
• The United Kingdom leaves the European Union and begins an eleven-month transition period.
• The
  Public Health Emergency of International Concern
  .

February 3: Feast day of Saint Laurence of Canterbury (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism); Four Chaplains' Day in the United States; Setsubun in Japan

José de San Martín

• Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers defeated Spanish royalist forces in the Battle of San Lorenzo
  .
• 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
• 1930 – The Communist Party of Indochina, the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina merged to form the Communist Party of Vietnam.
• 2010 – A cast bronze sculpture, L'Homme qui marche I, by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.

Scipione Rebiba (b. 1504) · Isaac Baker Brown (d. 1873) · Dolly Rudeman (b. 1902)