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What Happened on February 2nd This Day in History

Year	Name
2012	The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146–165 dead.
2007	Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
2005	The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
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.
2000	First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
1998	Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.
1990	Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
1989	Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1987	After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1982	Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1980	Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1971	Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1971	The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1966	Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1959	Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
1943	World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
1942	The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
1935	Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
1934	The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1925	Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1922	Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1920	The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1913	Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.
1909	The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
1901	Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1900	Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis, agree to form baseball's American League.
1899	The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1887	In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1881	The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are imparted.[7]
1876	The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1870	The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.
1868	Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burn it to the ground.
1850	Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
1848	Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1814	The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.
1709	Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
1653	New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1645	Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
1536	Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1461	Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results in the death of Owen Tudor.
1438	Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
1207	Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
1141	The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
1032	Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
962	Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
880	Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
506	Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".

Famous People Born on February 2

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Year	Name
1897	Gertrude Blanch, Russian-American mathematician (d. 1996)
1915	Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (d. 2014)
1829	William Stanley, English engineer and philanthropist (d. 1909)
1971	Michelle Gayle, English singer-songwriter and actress
1901	Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born American violinist and educator (d. 1987)
1977	Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1968	Kenny Albert, American sportscaster
1940	Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (d. 2008)
1983	Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
1952	John Cornyn, American lawyer and politician, 49th Attorney General of Texas

Famous People Deaths On February 2

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Date	Name
1218	Konstantin of Rostov (b. 1186)
1994	Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921)
1904	Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
2014	Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)
1529	Baldassare Castiglione, Italian soldier and diplomat (b. 1478)
1987	Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
1995	Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (b. 1917)
2004	Bernard McEveety, American director and producer (b. 1924)
1962	Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
1712	Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)