About February 2
February 2, 2025 is the 33rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 380 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 2
- 962 –Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
- 1542 –Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
- 1848 –Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
- 1876 –The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
- 1899 –The Australian Premiers’ Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia’s capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
- 1920 –The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
- 1922 –Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
- 1925 –Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
- 1934 –The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
- 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.
- 1966 –Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 1971 –Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
- 1972 –The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
- 1976 –The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
- 1980 –Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
- 1982 –Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama.
- 1984 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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.
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