Notable Historical Events on February 2nd
February 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
506 |
King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out |
962 |
Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor |
1032 |
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III |
1119 |
Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II |
1141 |
Battle of Lincoln: King Stephen captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester |
1461 |
2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists |
1536 |
Pedro de Mendoza founds Argentine city of Buenos Aires |
1542 |
Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente. |
1550 |
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, freed |
1633 |
M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome |
1637 |
Zorilla's "El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las," premieres in Madrid |
1653 |
New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York) |
1709 |
British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe" |
1714 |
Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London |
1731 |
George F Handel's opera "Poro," premieres in London |
1732 |
King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia |
1742 |
British Walpole government resigns |
1762 |
Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London |
1787 |
Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. |
1795 |
Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres |
1798 |
Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire |
1802 |
1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents) |
1811 |
Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF |
1823 |
Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice |
1829 |
Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral on fire, does £60,000 damage |
1843 |
US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee |
1848 |
1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF |
1848 |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million |
1852 |
1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London) |
1852 |
Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camélias," premieres in Paris |
1854 |
Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians" |
1863 |
Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time |
1864 |
-Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida |
1869 |
James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade |
1870 |
Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum |
1876 |
Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis |
1878 |
Greece declares war on Turkey |
1880 |
SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton |
1882 |
Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn |
1887 |
In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed. |
1888 |
Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia |
1892 |
Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) |
1892 |
Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England v Aust SCG |
1892 |
Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby |
1893 |
1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ |
1894 |
US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island |
1899 |
The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne. |
1900 |
Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris |
1901 |
Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization |
1901 |
Queen Victoria's funeral takes place. |
1901 |
Mexican government troops are ambushed by Yaqui Indians, 100 killed |
1901 |
The US Congress passes the Army Reorganization Act, placing the minimum number of men under arms at 58,000 |
1906 |
Pope encyclical against separation of church & state |
1909 |
Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
1912 |
Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe) |
1913 |
NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe |
1913 |
NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens |
1914 |
James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in NYC |
1919 |
Monarchist riot in Portugal |
1920 |
Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace) |
1920 |
France occupies (German) Memel territory |
1920 |
Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence |
1922 |
It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22 |
1922 |
James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) |
1923 |
Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio |
1923 |
US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries |
1924 |
International Ski Federation (FIS) forms |
1925 |
Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism |
1925 |
Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km |
1925 |
NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began |
1926 |
3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours |
1927 |
Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC |
1927 |
Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC |
1931 |
1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students |
1931 |
1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria) |
1932 |
Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia) |
1932 |
Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries |
1932 |
Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83) |
1932 |
Reconstruction Finance Corp organized |
1933 |
2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament |
1933 |
Hermann Goering bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany |
1933 |
Ucicky's "Rotten Morning," premieres in Berlin |
1934 |
Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism |
1935 |
Leonarde Keeler first use of his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings (Portage Wisc) |
1940 |
Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch) |
1942 |
LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans |
1942 |
US auto factories switch from commercial to war production |
1943 |
Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest |
1943 |
German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad, turning point in Europe during WW II |
1944 |
4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands |
1944 |
Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory |
1944 |
Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action |
1944 |
Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in NYC |
1945 |
Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp |
1946 |
"Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances |
1946 |
The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made. |
1948 |
President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program |
1949 |
Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident |
1950 |
"Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances |
1950 |
1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV |
1951 |
-35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994) |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1952 |
B. B. King's "3 O'Clock Blues" hits #1 on the US Billboard's R&B hit parade to become his first national hit |
1954 |
Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game |
1954 |
Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952) |
1954 |
Snow falls on Gibraltar |
1955 |
1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC |
1956 |
Coasters sign with Atlantic Records |
1957 |
"Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances |
1957 |
UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt |
1958 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open |
1958 |
Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic |
1958 |
WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Buddy Holly's last performance |
1959 |
Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers |
1960 |
Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss |
1961 |
Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam |
1962 |
1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games) |
1962 |
8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1963 |
Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard) |
1964 |
GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy |
1964 |
Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating |
1964 |
Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame |
1965 |
Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton |
1966 |
Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war. |
1967 |
Bolivia adopts its constitution |
1967 |
Formation of American Basketball Association is announced |
1968 |
Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed |
1969 |
KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame |
1970 |
Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points |
1971 |
Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda |
1972 |
Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame |
1972 |
Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London |
1972 |
Funerals of eleven of those killed on Bloody Sunday: in Dublin, over 30,000 march to the British Embassy, carrying thirteen replica coffins and black flags; they attack the Embassy with stones and bottles, then petrol bombs eventually burning it to the ground |
1973 |
"Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV |
1973 |
James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA (until July) |
1973 |
Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA |
1973 |
Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ v Pakistan, Wellington |
1974 |
Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were" |
1974 |
Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary" |
1974 |
Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641) |
1974 |
The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. |
1975 |
Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea |
1975 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
1975 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
1975 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
1976 |
"Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV |
1976 |
"Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
1976 |
Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame |
1977 |
Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR) |
1977 |
Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer |
1977 |
Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman |
1980 |
FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors |
1982 |
Government troops and Muslim fundamentalists battle in Hamah, Syria |
1982 |
San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead |
1983 |
Chicago Archbishop Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested |
1983 |
Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals |
1984 |
8th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
1984 |
Lebanese army fight in Beirut |
1985 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
1986 |
"Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 perfs |
1986 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
1986 |
Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India |
1986 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24 |
1986 |
Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica |
1987 |
KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires |
1987 |
Philippines adopts constitution |
1988 |
David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* v England at Sydney |
1989 |
0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states |
1989 |
FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
1989 |
NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president |
1990 |
South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs |
1991 |
Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington |
1991 |
NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56 |
1991 |
US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents |
1991 |
Sting scores his second UK No.1 album with 'The Soul Cages' |
1992 |
Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
1992 |
Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec) |
1992 |
David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth |
1992 |
IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M) |
1992 |
Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40) |
1992 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15 |
1993 |
Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song |
1993 |
Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec) |
1995 |
"Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances |
1995 |
Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket |
1995 |
US space shuttle Discovery launched |
1996 |
Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA |
1997 |
"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin NYC |
1997 |
Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am |
1997 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT) |
1997 |
Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic |
1997 |
Scotty Bowman becomes first coach in NHL history to win 1,000 games |
1998 |
Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose |
1998 |
Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board |
2003 |
Jennifer Lopez starts a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'All I Have' |
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' |
2003 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 45-23 |
2012 |
Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02) |
2012 |
MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside) |
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 |
2013 |
23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan |
2013 |
Shinzō Abe, Japan's Prime Minister, vows to defend the Senkaku Islands "at all costs" |
2013 |
18 people are killed and 34 are injured after a bus catches fire after falling down a ravine in Gansu province, China |
2014 |
Seattle Seahawks defeat Denver Broncos 42-8 to win Super Bowl XLVII |
2014 |
Super Bowl XLVIII becomes the the most viewed television event in the United States with over 111 million viewers |
2016 |
Ted Cruz Wins Republican Caucuses in Iowa |
2016 |
Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil sees early spring |
2016 |
Yahoo lays off 15% of staff after posting a massive loss |
2017 |
Milo Yiannopoulous' speech at UC-Berkeley canceled over protest |
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