About February 2
February 2, 2023 is the 33rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 373 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.
- 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.
- 1812 –Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.
- 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.
- 1899 –The Australian Premiers’ Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia’s capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
- 1913 –Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
- 1920 –The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
- 1922 –Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
- 1925 –The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
- 1934 –The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
- 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 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1980 –Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
- 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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