Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 2
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British Embassy after the fire -
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| 962 – Pope John XII crowned Otto the Great as Holy Roman Emperor, the first in nearly 40 years. | refimprove section |
| 1141 – Stephen, King of England was captured by forces loyal to the Empress Matilda at the Battle of Lincoln. | refimprove |
| 1536 – An expedition to the New World led by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founded what is now Buenos Aires, Argentina. | refimprove section |
| 1653 – The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam received municipal rights, thus becoming a city on territory that is now New York City. | refimprove |
| 1922 – The novel Ulysses by James Joyce was first published in its entirety, becoming one of the most important works of modernist literature. | refimprove sections |
| 1925 – Medical supplies to combat an outbreak of diphtheria reached Nome, Alaska, on dog sleds after a five and a half-day journey, inspiring the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska. | Serum run: original research; Iditarod: refimprove sections |
| 1971 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands was signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. | needs more footnotes |
| 1982 – The Syrian army bombarded the town of Hama in order to quell a revolt by the Muslim Brotherhood, killing about 7,000–25,000 people. | disagreement in sources on actual date bombing began. See article talk page |
| 1990 – President F. W. de Klerk declared the end of apartheid in South Africa. | refimprove section |
| 2009 – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the Zimbabwean dollar for the third and final time, making Z$1 trillion now only Z$1 of the new currency. | refimprove section |
| Agha Petros |d|1932 | citation needed for the date of death |
| Christie Brinkley |b|1954| | Expansion needed banner |
Eligible
- 506 – Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, promulgated a collection of Roman law known as the Breviary of Alaric.
- 1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt were executed at Torda.
- 1709 – Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English captain Woodes Rogers and his crew after spending four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Pacific, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
- 1659 – Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first bottle of South African wine (vineyard pictured).
- 1920 – The signing of the Treaty of Tartu ended the Estonian War of Independence, with Soviet Russia agreeing to recognize the country's independence and renounce in perpetuity all rights to its territory.
- 1934 – The Export–Import Bank of the United States, the country's official export credit agency, was established.
- 1942 – The first act of the Norwegian resistance movement took place with the bombing of Oslo East Station by the Osvald Group to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
- 1943 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army captured 91,000 tired and starving German soldiers, ending the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
- 1963 – 113 alleged communists were arrested and detained without trial by Singapore's security agencies.
- 1974 – The F-16 Fighting Falcon (pictured), the most numerous fixed-wing aircraft currently in military service, made its first flight.
- 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer became the top-ranked men's singles player, a position he held for a record 237 consecutive weeks.
- 2007 – Following a Derby di Sicilia match in Catania, football violence caused the death of police officer Filippo Raciti, leading to new safety regulations at Italian sporting events.
- 2009 – Omid, Iran's first domestically made satellite, was successfully launched from Semnan Space Center.
- 2012 – The passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen capsized and sank in rough conditions in the Solomon Sea, resulting in at least 88 deaths.
- Born/died this day: | Piotr Skarga |b|1536| Alix Le Clerc |b|1576| Isaac Titsingh |d|1812| William Stanley |b|1829| Vincenzo Dimech |d|1831| José Guadalupe Posada |b|1852| Frederick William Vanderbilt |b|1856| Alexander Cameron Rutherford |b|1857| Julia Nava de Ruisánchez |b|1883| Likelike |d|1887| Alfred Delp |d|1945 | Marian Cruger Coffin |d|1957| Abraham Iyambo |bd|1961; 2013| Peter Lundgren |b|1963| Philip Seymour Hoffman |d|2014| Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri |d|2021
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Medieval artwork of Conrad II
- 1033 – An assembly at the Abbey of Payerne crowned Conrad II (pictured) king of Burgundy.
- 1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis.
- 1848 – Mexican–American War: During the American occupation of Mexico City, diplomats signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war and had Mexico cede 1.36 million square kilometres (530,000 sq mi) of territory and the United States pay US$15 million.
- 1913 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the world's largest train station by number of platforms, opened immediately after midnight.
- 1972 – The Troubles: Protestors burned the British Embassy in Ireland following the massacre of 14 civilians in Derry by British forces.
- Eleanor of Navarre (b. 1426)
- Gertrude Blanch (b. 1897)
- Hannah Ryggen (d. 1970)
- Mary Docherty (d. 2000)
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