_ On Jan. 30, 1661, Oliver Cromwell was ritually executed. That is, his corpse was. The former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England was posthumously convicted of high treason and his remains hanged and beheaded, two years after his actual demise._ On Feb. 4, 1789, George Washington was unanimously elected as the first president of the United States. His campaign cost nothing, as he did no public campaigning, since he didn’t really want to take office. He was also the only U.S. president to be inaugurated in two cities (New York and Philadelphia)._ On Feb. 5, 1931, Maxine Dunlap ...