February 2

<< February 2011 >> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MMXI February 2 in recent years 2011 (Wednesday) 2010 (Tuesday) 2009 (Monday) 2008 (Saturday) 2007 (Friday) 2006 (Thursday) 2005 (Wednesday) 2004 (Monday) 2003 (Sunday) 2002 (Saturday) 2001 (Friday) 2000 (Wednesday) February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of the year (333 in leap years). Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links // Events 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum) a collection of Roman law. 962 – Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years. 1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy. 1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established. 1461 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross takes place in Herefordshire, England. 1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1542 – Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente. 1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated. 1812 – Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California. 1848 – Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. 1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California. 1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed. 1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed. 1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne. 1901 – Funeral of Queen Victoria. 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City. 1920 – The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia. 1920 – France occupies Memel. 1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published. 1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. 1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. 1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated. 1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces. 1946 – The Hungarian Republic is proclaimed. 1957 – Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage. 1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 1967 – The American Basketball Association is formed. 1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda. 1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday. 1974 – The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. 1976 – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. 1980 – Reports surface that the FBI was targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation. 1982 – Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama. 1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution the Philippines enacts a new constitution. 1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul. 1990 – Apartheid: F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela. 1998 – A Cebu Pacific Flight 387 DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, killing 104. 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks. 2007 – Three tornadoes hit Central Florida, killing 42 people. 2007 – Widespread flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia, begins, eventually killing 54 and causing more than US$400 million in damages. Births 1208 – James I of Aragon (d. 1276) 1455 – King John of Denmark (d. 1513) 1494 – Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557) 1502 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574) 1506 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583) 1522 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565) 1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653) 1613 – Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649) 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian humanist (d. 1679) 1649 – Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730) 1650 – Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress (d. 1687) 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (d. 1732) 1695 – William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772) 1695 – François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769) 1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (d. 1766) 1711 – Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (d. 1794) 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer (d. 1785) 1717 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790) 1754 – Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman (d. 1838) 1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856) 1802 – Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (d. 1887) 1803 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1862) 1829 – Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884) 1829 – William Stanley, inventor and engineer (d. 1909) 1841 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912) 1842 – Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927) 1849 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921) 1851 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican artist (d. 1913) 1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr., American politician (d. 1915) 1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1949) 1873 – Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and statesman (d. 1956) 1875 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962) 1878 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955) 1881 – Orval Overall, American baseball player (d. 1947) 1882 – James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941) 1887 – Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975) 1888 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969) 1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (d. 1952) 1890 – Charles Correll, American actor (d. 1972) 1892 – Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (d. 1959) 1893 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974) 1893 – Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970) 1895 – George Halas, American NFL co-founder (d. 1983) 1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980) 1897 – Aimé Avignon, France's former oldest living man (d. 2007) 1897 – Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972) 1900 – Willie Kamm, American baseball player (d. 1988) 1901 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (d. 1987) 1902 – Jane Ising, German-born wife of Ernst Ising 1902 – Newbold Morris, American politician (d. 1966) 1905 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author and philosopher (d. 1982) 1908 – Wes Ferrell, American baseball player (d. 1976) 1909 – Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964) 1912 – Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 2009) 1912 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (d. 1997) 1913 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985) 1914 – Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004) 1915 – Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002) 1915 – Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005) 1916 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985) 1917 – Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese leader 1918 – Hella S. Haasse, Dutch writer 1919 – Georg Gawliczek, German football manager (d. 1999) 1923 – James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997) 1923 – Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988) 1923 – Red Schoendienst, American baseball player and manager 1923 – Liz Smith, American gossip columnist 1924 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born American producer and musician (d. 2007) 1924 – Jack Clemmons, American law enforcement officer (d. 1998) 1925 – Elaine Stritch, American actress 1926 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician 1927 – Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991) 1928 – Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr, American civil rights activist (d. 1998) 1929 – George Band, British mountaineer 1929 – Věra Chytilová, Czech director 1931 – Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1977 until 1982 1931 – Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993) 1931 – Judith Viorst, American author 1932 – Robert Mandan, American actor 1933 – Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006) 1933 – Than Shwe, ruler of Myanmar 1936 – Duane Jones, American actor (d. 1988) 1937 – Don Buford, American baseball player 1937 – Anthony Haden-Guest British American writer 1937 – Remak Ramsay, American actor 1937 – Tom Smothers, American musician and comedian 1939 – Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (d. 2000) 1940 – Wayne Fontes, American football coach 1940 – David Jason, English actor 1941 – Terry Biddlecombe, English horse racing jockey 1942 – Graham Nash, British-born American musician 1943 – Susan Hanson, English actress 1944 – Andrew Davis, British conductor 1944 – Karen Foss, American broadcaster 1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, British actor 1946 – Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman 1946 – Alpha Oumar Konaré, Mali politician 1947 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009) 1948 – Ina Garten, American author and TV personality 1948 – Al McKay, American guitarist and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire) 1948 – Roger Williamson, English racecar driver (d. 1973) 1949 – Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish entrepreneur 1949 – Francisco Maturana, Colombian football manager 1949 – Brent Spiner, American actor 1949 – Ross Valory, American musician (Journey) 1950 – Osamu Kido, Japanese professional wrestler 1950 – Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler 1950 – Barbara Sukowa, German actress 1952 – John Cornyn, American politician, junior senator of Texas 1953 – Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter 1954 – Christie Brinkley, American model 1954 – Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian singer and actor 1954 – John Tudor, American baseball player 1955 – Leszek Engelking, Polish poet, writer and translator 1955 – Virginia Leng, British equestrian 1957 – Phil Barney, French singer 1958 – Michel Marc Bouchard, Quebec playwright 1960 – Jari Porttila, Finnish sports journalist 1961 – Lauren Lane, American actress 1961 – Steve Penney, National Hockey League goaltender 1962 – Andy Fordham, English darts player 1962 – Paul Kilgus, American baseball player 1962 – Michael T. Weiss, American actor 1963 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996) 1963 – Philip Laats, Belgian judoka 1965 – Carl Airey, English footballer 1965 – Naoki Sano, Japanese professional wrestler 1966 – Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player 1966 – Robert DeLeo, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots) 1967 – Arturs Irbe, Latvian hockey player 1967 – Laurent Nkunda, Congolese military leader 1968 – Sean Elliott, American basketball player 1968 – Scott Erickson, American baseball player 1968 – Simon Wickham-Smith, British musician 1968 – Thomas Teige, German martial artist, actor and record holder 1969 – Valeri Karpin, Russian footballer 1970 – C. Ernst Harth, Canadian actor 1970 – Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek footballer 1970 – Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer 1970 – Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress 1972 – Tego Calderón, Puerto Rican reggaeton artist 1972 – Dana International, Israeli singer 1972 – Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player 1973 – Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower 1973 – Marissa Jaret Winokur, American actress 1975 – Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player 1975 – Donald Driver, American football player 1975 – Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer 1975 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer 1975 – Niclas Wallin, Swedish hockey player 1976 – James Hickman, British swimmer 1976 – Lori Beth Denberg, American actress 1977 – Shakira, Colombian singer 1977 – Libor Sionko, Czech football player 1978 – Eden Espinosa, American singer and actress 1978 – Barry Ferguson, Scotish football player 1978 – Rich Sommer, American actor 1979 – Urmo Aava, Estonian rally driver 1979 – Fani Chalkia, Greek hurdler 1979 – Klaus Mainzer, German rugby player 1979 – Shamita Shetty, Indian actress 1979 – Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter 1980 – Teddy Hart, Canadian professional wrestler 1980 – Gucci Mane, American rapper 1980 – Oleguer Presas, Spanish football player 1981 – Michelle Bass, English reality TV star and glamour model 1982 – Sergio Castaño, Spanish footballer 1982 – Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress 1982 – Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player 1982 – Brandy Talore, American pornographic actress 1983 – Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player 1983 – Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete 1983 – Will South, British musician (Thirteen Senses) 1983 – Jordin Tootoo, Canadian hockey player 1983 – Alex Westaway, British musician 1984 – Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor 1984 – Rudi Wulf, New Zealand All Black rugby player 1987 – Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player 1987 – Martin Spanjers, American actor 1990 – Dan Gosling, English footballer 1992 – Danielle White, American singer Deaths 1124 – Borivoj II, Duke of Bohemia 1218 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186) 1250 – Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216) 1294 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229) 1307 – Oljeitu Temur Khagan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty (b. 1265) 1461 – Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England 1529 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478) 1580 – Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558) 1594 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525) 1648 – George Abbot, English writer 1660 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615) 1660 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608) 1661 – Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596) 1688 – Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610) 1704 – Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661) 1712 – Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician 1714 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643) 1723 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (b. 1666) 1768 – Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689) 1769 – Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693) 1802 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713) 1804 – George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50) 1895 – Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817) 1904 – William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841) 1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834) 1909 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (b. 1829) 1918 – John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1858) 1922 – William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872) 1925 – Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873) 1926 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848) 1932 – Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader (b. 1880) 1942 – Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905) 1945 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician, member of the German resistance (b. 1884) 1945 – Johannes Popitz, Prussian finance minister, member of the German resistance (b. 1884) 1945 – Alfred Delp, German Jesuit priest, member of the German resistance (b. 1907) 1948 – Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894) 1948 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870) 1950 – Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873) 1956 – Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869) 1956 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876) 1957 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890) 1961 – Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905) 1962 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-born Israeli biochemist (b. 1914) 1969 – Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887) 1970 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898) 1970 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1872) 1972 – Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876) 1973 – Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (b. 1902) 1974 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1922) 1979 – Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957) 1980 – Hanna Rovina, Israeli actress 1980 – William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (b. 1911) 1982 – Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b. 1905) 1983 – Sam Chatmon, American blues musician (b. 1897) 1986 – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957) 1987 – Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927) 1987 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922) 1988 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French film actor (b. 1929) 1989 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951) 1989 – Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand politician (b. 1901) 1990 – Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934) 1992 – Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914) 1995 – Fred Perry, British tennis player (b. 1909) 1995 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor (b. 1917) 1995 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919) 1996 – Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912) 1997 – Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913) 1997 – Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904) 1999 – David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962) 2002 – Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960) 2002 – Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937) 2003 – Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917) 2004 – Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924) 2005 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905) 2007 – Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944) 2007 – Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939) 2007 – Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927) 2007 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967) 2007 – Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919) 2007 – Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931) 2008 – Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960) 2011 – Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and former VJ. (b. 1979) Holidays and observances Anniversary of Treaty of Tartu (Estonia) Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple or Candlemas (Western Christianity), and its related observances: A quarter day in the Christian calendar (due to Candlemas). (Scotland) Celebration of Yemanja (Candomblé) La Chandeleur or Crêpe (Pancake) Day (France) Our Lady of Navigators (Brazil) Virgin of Candelaria (Tenerife, Spain) Christian Feast Day: Cornelius the Centurion February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (The Philippines) Earliest day on which Shrove Monday can fall, while March 8 is the latest; celebrated on Monday before Ash Wednesday (Christianity), and its related observances: Bun Day (Iceland) Fastelavn (Denmark) Rosenmontag (Germany) Groundhog Day (United States and Canada) Imbolc in northern hemisphere, Lughnasadh in southern hemisphere (Neopaganism) Inventor's Day (Thailand) World Wetlands Day (International) External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: February 2 BBC: On This Day The New York Times: On This Day On This Day in Canada v · d · eMonths and days of the year January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 February 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 September 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Related dates January 0 · February 30 · February 31 · March 0