Historical Events
- 1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)
- 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican–American War: US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
- 1901 Queen Victoria's funeral takes place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
- 1922 James Joyce's "Ulysses" first published by Sylvia Beach in Paris (1,000 copies)
- 1943 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II
- 1971 Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote and appoints himself President (dictator) of Uganda
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Feb 2 in Film & TV
- 1974 Barbra Streisand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
Feb 2 in Sport
- 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ: Seattle Seahawks beat Denver Broncos, 42-8; MVP: Malcolm Smith, Seattle, LB
Did You Know?
Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings in Portage, Wisconsin
On February 2, 1935
Talleyrand
James Joyce
Frank Lloyd
George Halas
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ShakiraWould You Believe?
Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby
On February 2, 1892
Famous Weddings
- 1387 King John I of Portugal (29) marries Philippa of Lancaster (26), daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, in Porto, consolidating an Anglo-Portuguese Alliance that endures to the present day
- 1870 American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY
- 1904 US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey
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Sid Vicious
Gene Kelly
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The Hidden Depths of Mark Twain
Forced to find a new job when the American Civil War struck the Mississippi river, Samuel Longhorne Clemens turned to writing and Mark Twain was born.
February 2, 1863
Funeral of Queen Victoria
The funeral cortege of Queen Victoria outside St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on February 2, 1901
February 2, 1901
