About February 2
February 2, 2021 is the 33rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 10 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.
- 1032 –Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
- 1207 –Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established.
- 1536 –Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1966 –Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 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.
- 1984 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 1990 –Apartheid: F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
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