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.
- 1536 –Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 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.
- 1887 –In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
- 1901 –Funeral of Queen Victoria.
- 1908 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1920 –France occupies Memel.
- 1920 –The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
- 1925 –Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
- 1935 –Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
- 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.
- 1946 –The Hungarian Republic is proclaimed.
- 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.
- 1982 –Hama Massacre: Syria attacks the town of Hama.
- 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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