About February 2
February 2, 2024 is the 33rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 8 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 2
- 506 –Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates The Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum) a collection of Roman law.
- 1536 –Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1542 –Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
- 1653 –New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
- 1848 –California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco, California.
- 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.
- 1901 –Funeral of Queen Victoria.
- 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.
- 1957 –Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
- 1965 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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