Today in History - History - February 2nd

19332 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament

1933Hermann Goering bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany

1913NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe

1975Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational

2003Jennifer Lopez starts a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'All I Have'

1986Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

1940Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch)

1970Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points

1983Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals

1992IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M)

1947Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)

1882James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake)

1977Shakira [Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll], Barranquilla, Colombian pop singer ('Whenever Wherever', 'Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)')

1895George Halas, Chicago Illinois, NFL pioneer (owner of the Chicago Bears)

1985NFL Footballer and felon OJ Simpson marries 2nd wife Nicole Brown (murdered 1994)

1870American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY

1936Physicist Emilio G. Segrè (31) weds jewish woman Elfriede Spiro at the Great Synagogue of Rome in Italy

1997"American Idol" judge Paula Abdul (34) weds sportswear designer Brad Beckerman at The Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel

200823rd French Republic President Nicolas Sarkozy (53) weds supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France

1957Actress Elizabeth Taylor (24) marries for the 3rd time to Producer Mike Todd (47)

1979Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols), OD's at 21

2014Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (Capote, Moneyball) dies at 46 of a suspected drug overdose