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02 Feb 1032
Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy succeeding Rudolf III
02 Feb 1141
Battle of Lincoln King Stephen captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert 1st Earl of Gloucester
02 Feb 1349
By this date at least 200 people a day were being buried in London as a result of the Black Death
02 Feb 1536
Pedro de Mendoza founds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
02 Feb 1542
Portuguese under Christovo da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baente.
02 Feb 1633
M Rossis opera Erminia sul Giordano premieres in Rome
02 Feb 1637
Zorillas El ms Impropio Verdugo Para Las premieres in Madrid
02 Feb 1653
New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)
02 Feb 1709
British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years his story inspires Robinson Crusoe
02 Feb 1714
Nicholas Rowes play The Tragedy of Jane Shore premieres in London
02 Feb 1732
King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia
02 Feb 1762
Thomas Arnes opera Artaxerxes premieres in London
02 Feb 1787
Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation
02 Feb 1798
Federal St Theater Boston becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
02 Feb 1802
1st leopard exhibited in US Boston (admission 25 cents)
02 Feb 1811
Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post north of San Francisco
02 Feb 1823
Gioacchino Rossinis opera Semiramide premieres in Venice
02 Feb 1829
Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral on fire does 60000 damage
02 Feb 1843
US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee
02 Feb 1848
1st ship load of Chinese immigrants arrive in San Francisco
02 Feb 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War US acquires Texas California New Mexico and Arizona for 15 million
02 Feb 1852
1st British public mens toilet opens in Fleet St London
02 Feb 1852
Alexandre Dumas Jrs La Dame aux Camlias premieres in Paris
02 Feb 1854
Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution of Armenians
02 Feb 1861
The Organized Incorporated Territory of Nevada is created lasting until October 31st 1864
02 Feb 1869
James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
02 Feb 1870
Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
02 Feb 1876
Baseballs National League forms with teams in Boston Chicago Cincinnati Hartford Louisville New York Philadelphia St Louis
02 Feb 1880
SS Strathleven arrives in London with first shipment of frozen Australian mutton
02 Feb 1887
In Punxsutawney Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
02 Feb 1888
Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system the Richmond Union Passenger Railway in Richmond Virginia
02 Feb 1892
Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick England v Australia SCG
02 Feb 1892
Longest boxing match under modern rules 77 rounds in Nameoki Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby
02 Feb 1893
1st movie close-up (of a sneeze) Edison studio West Orange NJ
02 Feb 1894
US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef near Solomon Island
02 Feb 1899
The Australian Premiers Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australias capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.
02 Feb 1900
Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise premieres in Paris
02 Feb 1901
Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
02 Feb 1901
Mexican government troops are ambushed by Yaqui Indians 100 killed
02 Feb 1901
The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58000
02 Feb 1906
Pope encyclical against separation of church & state
02 Feb 1909
Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
02 Feb 1912
Frederick R Law parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
02 Feb 1914
James Royce Shannons musical Shameen Dhu premieres in NYC
02 Feb 1920
TartoDorpat peace treaty USSR recognizes Estonian independence
02 Feb 1923
US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
02 Feb 1924
Norways Thorleif Haug takes the cross-country double at the Chamonix Winter Olympics when he wins the 18k event Haug also 50k gold medalist
02 Feb 1925
Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism communism & socialism
02 Feb 1925
Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
02 Feb 1925
NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began
02 Feb 1926
Australasian Championships Womens Tennis Adelaide Daphne Akhurst Cozens retains title beats Esna Boyd Robertson 6-1 6-3
02 Feb 1926
Australasian Championships Mens Tennis Adelaide In all-Australian final John Hawkes beats James Willard 6-1 6-3 6-1
02 Feb 1927
Harry TierneyJoseph McCarthys Rio Rita premieres in NYC
02 Feb 1927
Ziegfeld Theater (Loews Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC
02 Feb 1931
1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students
02 Feb 1932
Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
02 Feb 1932
Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
02 Feb 1932
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) organized in the US to provide financial support to state and local governments and to make loans to banks railroads mortgage associations and other businesses
02 Feb 1934
Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism and nazism
02 Feb 1935
Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings in Portage Wisconsin
02 Feb 1941
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
02 Feb 1941
US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
02 Feb 1920
Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
02 Feb 1942
LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
02 Feb 1942
US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
02 Feb 1943
Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
02 Feb 1943
German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II
02 Feb 1944
4th US marine division conquers Roi Marshall Islands
02 Feb 1944
Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
02 Feb 1944
Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
02 Feb 1945
Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
02 Feb 1946
Nellie Bly closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances
02 Feb 1948
President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
02 Feb 1950
Arms & the Girl opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances
02 Feb 1951
-35F (-37C) Greensburg Indiana (state record until 1994)
02 Feb 1954
Bevo Francis Rio Grande College scores 113 pts in basketball game
02 Feb 1955
1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
02 Feb 1957
Candide closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
02 Feb 1957
UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
02 Feb 1958
WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
02 Feb 1960
Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
02 Feb 1961
Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
02 Feb 1962
1st pole vault over 16 (4.88m) (John Uelses-16 Melrose Games)
02 Feb 1962
8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
02 Feb 1963
Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
02 Feb 1964
GI Joe debuts as a popular American boys toy
02 Feb 1964
Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
02 Feb 1966
Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war.
02 Feb 1967
Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
02 Feb 1969
KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
02 Feb 1969
Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
02 Feb 1971
US Congressional Black Caucus organizes with Charles C. Diggs Jr. its first Chair
02 Feb 1972
Lefty Gomez Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
02 Feb 1972
Angry demonstrators burn the British Embassy in Dublin to the ground in protest at the shooting dead of 13 people on bloody sunday
02 Feb 1973
Midnight Special rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
02 Feb 1973
Richard Helms ends term as 8th director of CIA succeeded by James R Schlesinger (until July)
02 Feb 1973
Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee NZ v Pakistan Wellington
02 Feb 1974
Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1641)
02 Feb 1974
The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
02 Feb 1974
Playmobil toys debut at the Nuremberg Toy Fair designed by Hans Beck and produced by the Brandsttter Group
02 Feb 1975
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
02 Feb 1976
Roger Connor Fred Lindstrom & umpire Cal Hubbard elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
02 Feb 1977
Radio Shack officially begins creating the TRS-80 computer
02 Feb 1977
Torontos Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals NHL REcord for a defenseman
02 Feb 1980
FBI releases details of Abscam a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors
02 Feb 1980
Mexican boxer Salvador Snchez dethrones Danny Little Red Lopez as WBC world featherweight champion with a 13th-round TKO in Phoenix AZ Lopez champion since November 1976 8th defence
02 Feb 1982
Government troops and Muslim fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria
02 Feb 1983
Chicago Archbishop Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
02 Feb 1983
CBS premiere of fact based WW2 drama The Scarlet and the Black based on the life of Monsignor Hugh OFlaherty
02 Feb 1984
1st Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
02 Feb 1986
Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances
02 Feb 1986
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI NFC beats AFC 28-24 MVP Phil Simms NY Giants QB
02 Feb 1986
Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
02 Feb 1987
KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner) retires
02 Feb 1988
David Boons 6th Test Cricket century 184 v England at Sydney
02 Feb 1990
South African President F. W. de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political organisations
02 Feb 1991
Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington
02 Feb 1991
NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross 72-56
02 Feb 1991
US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents
02 Feb 1992
Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec)
02 Feb 1992
David Boons 13 Test Cricket century 107 v India at Perth
02 Feb 1992
Australian Kieren Perkins swims 1500m freestyle short course world record 1432.40 at AIS Canberra Australia
02 Feb 1992
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI NFC beats AFC 21-15 MVP Michael Irvin Dallas Cowboys WR
02 Feb 1993
Frito Lay pays court ordered 2500000 to Tom Wait for using his song
02 Feb 1993
Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
02 Feb 1995
Molire Comedies opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
02 Feb 1995
Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
02 Feb 1996
Ali Landry 22 (Louisiana) crowned 45th Miss USA
02 Feb 1997
Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus closes at Gershwin NYC
02 Feb 1997
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT) MVP Mark Brunell Jacksonville Jaguars QB
02 Feb 1998
Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
02 Feb 1998
Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
02 Feb 2002
52nd NHL All-Star Game Staples Center Los Angeles CA World beats North America 8-5 MVP ric Daz Chicago Blackhawks RW
02 Feb 1876
Baseballs National League forms at the Grand Central Hotel NYC with teams in Boston Chicago Cincinnati Hartford Louisville New York Philadelphia and St Louis
02 Feb 1893
1st movie close-up (of a sneeze) Edison studio West Orange New Jersey
02 Feb 1956
Despite a severe ankle injury Tenley Albright leads an American 1-2 in the womens figure skating at the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Olympics Carol Heiss takes the silver medal
02 Feb 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the MexicanAmerican War US acquires Texas California New Mexico and Arizona for 15 million
02 Feb 1461
Battle of Mortimers Cross in a major battle of the War of the Roses Yorkist army of Edward Earl of March defeats Lancaster force led by Jasper Tudor
02 Feb 1887
First Groundhog Day observed at Gobblers Knob Punxsutawney Pennsylvania
02 Feb 1892
Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick England v Australia at the SCG
02 Feb 1961
Dutch Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
02 Feb 1976
The Honeymooners Second Honeymoon airs on TV
02 Feb 1983
Chicago Archbishop Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals named by Pope John Paul II
02 Feb 2003
Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with All The Things She Said
02 Feb 1909
Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes Manifest o of Futurism in Paris France
02 Feb 1950
Morton Gould and Dorothy Fields colonial-era musical Arms and the Girl starring Nanette Fabray and Pearl Bailey opens at 46th St Theater NYC runs for 134 performances
02 Feb 1972
Lefty Gomez Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Baseball Hall of Fame
02 Feb 2002
Philip Glass Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) for soprano and orchestra based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg premieres withthe American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies at Carnegie Hall NYC
02 Feb 2003
53rd NHL All-Star Game Office Depot Centre Sunrise FL West beats East 6-5 MVP Danny Heatley Atlanta Thrashers LW
02 Feb 1550
Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset and former Lord Protector freed from the Tower of London
02 Feb 1653
New Amsterdam becomes a city later renamed New York City
02 Feb 1852
Alexandre Dumas Jrs play an adaptation of his novel La Dame aux Camlias premieres in Paris
02 Feb 1848
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the MexicanAmerican War. Mexico loses 55 percent of its territory to the US including California Nevada and Utah in exchange for 15 million.
02 Feb 1869
American industrialist James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
02 Feb 1892
Bottle cap for beverages patented by US inventor William Painter - still used today [1]
02 Feb 1912
Frederick R. Law parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
02 Feb 1927
Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthys musical Rio Rita premieres in NYC
02 Feb 1932
Australian spin bowler Clarrie Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
02 Feb 1934
Dutch Roman Catholic Bishops warn against fascism and Nazism
02 Feb 1943
German 6th Army surrenders after the Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II
02 Feb 1944
Edward Chodorovs play Decision premieres in NYC
02 Feb 1954
Rio Grande College basketball forward Bevo Francis scores NCAA record 113 points vs Hillsdale College
02 Feb 1964
Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
02 Feb 1966
Pakistan suggests six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war
02 Feb 1977
Soviet Salyut 4 Space Station re-enters Earths atmosphere
02 Feb 1977
Toronto Maple Leafs Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals NHL record for a defenseman
02 Feb 1980
Mexican boxer Salvador Snchez dethrones Danny Little Red Lopez as WBC world featherweight champion with a 13th-round TKO in Phoenix AZ Lopez champion since November 1976 8th defense
02 Feb 2003
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI AFC beats NFC 45-23 MVP Ricky Williams Miami Dolphins RB
02 Feb 2003
Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at 1 on the UK singles chart with All The Things She Said
02 Feb 1141
Battle of Lincoln English King Stephen captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert 1st Earl of Gloucester
02 Feb 1654
Dutch tragedy Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel and regarded as his masterpiece premieres in Amsterdam - banned three days later
02 Feb 1848
1st Chinese immigrants arrive by boat in San Francisco California
02 Feb 1876
Baseballs National League forms at the Grand Central Hotel NYC with teams in Boston Chicago Cincinnati Hartford Louisville New York Philadelphia and St Louis
02 Feb 1892
Longest boxing match under modern rules 77 rounds in Nameoki Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
02 Feb 1900
Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise premieres at the Salle Favart in Paris France performed by the Opra-Comique conducted by Andr Messageri
02 Feb 1913
NYCs Grand Central Terminal train station opens [1]
02 Feb 1935
Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals who are later convicted of assault based on its findings in Portage Wisconsin
02 Feb 1943
MLB Chicago Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest style
02 Feb 1976
Roger Connor Fred Lindstrom and umpire Cal Hubbard elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
02 Feb 2012
Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
02 Feb 2012
MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside)
02 Feb 2012
NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989
02 Feb 2013
18 people are killed and 34 are injured after a bus catches fire after falling down a ravine in Gansu province China
02 Feb 2013
23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District Pakistan
02 Feb 2014
Protests in Ukraine turn violent after parliament passes legislation that outlaws protest
02 Feb 2016
First case of Zika contracted on US mainland (Texas) and second known sexually transmitted case confirmed in Texas
02 Feb 2018
All 955 miners rescued from the Beatrix gold mine in Welkom town South Africa after 2 days underground
02 Feb 2019
More than 40 mummies from 323-30 BC found at a burial site at Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site south of Cairo Egypt
02 Feb 2019
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam admits to wearing blackface in 1984 but says hes not in a photo of men wearing blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe on a yearbook page
02 Feb 2020
Palindrome Day the date 0202 reads the same forward and backward including in the US and China (last one like this 11 November 1111)
02 Feb 2021
Alejandro Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant to be confirmed as head of the US Department of Homeland Security
02 Feb 2021
Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a US cabinet post as transportation secretary
02 Feb 2021
Russias Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine deemed 91.6% effective according to analysis published in The Lancet [1]
02 Feb 2021
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny jailed for three and a half years in jail over alleged parole violations in Moscow
02 Feb 2022
More than one million Afghans have fled the country for Iran since October due to the countrys economic crisis according to immigration authorities threatening a new migrant crisis [1]
02 Feb 1550
Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset and former Lord Protector is freed from the Tower of London
02 Feb 1892
Bottle cap for beverages is patented by US inventor William Painter and is still used today [1]
02 Feb 1963
British pop singer Helen Shapiro begins an English tour the Beatles are part of undercard
02 Feb 1990
South African President F. W. de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political organizations
02 Feb 2002
Philip Glass Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) for soprano and orchestra based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg premieres withthe American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies at Carnegie Hall NYC
02 Feb 2024
Wildfires begin burning in Chile east of Via del Ma spread to Quilpu and Villa Alemana killing at least 131 with hundreds missing. Chiles greatest natural disaster since 2010. [1]