1st – Thursday, 1893 Thomas Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the black maria.

2nd – Friday, In  Punxsutawney Pennsylvania the first groundhogs day.

29th – Monday, 1861, Kansas is admitted as the 34th state.

30th – Tuesday, 1911, The destroyer USS. Terry makes the first airplane rescue saving the life of Douglass Mccurdy ten miles from Havana Cuba.

31st – Wednesday 1865, the U.S. Congress passes the thirteenth amendment freeing the slaves.