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Events on the 2nd of February in history

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02 Feb 0506 King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
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02 Feb 0506 Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
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02 Feb 0962 Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor
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02 Feb 0962 Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
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02 Feb 1032 Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as King of Bourgundy
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02 Feb 1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
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02 Feb 1119 Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
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02 Feb 1141 Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured
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02 Feb 1141 The Battle of Lincoln, at which King Stephen is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda, presenting her with the unfulfilled opportunity to become the first queen of medieval England.
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02 Feb 1207 Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established.
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02 Feb 1461 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.
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02 Feb 1536 Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
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02 Feb 1536 Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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02 Feb 1542 Portuguese forces under Cristóvão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
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02 Feb 1550 English Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, freed
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02 Feb 1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later NYC)
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02 Feb 1653 New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
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02 Feb 1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"
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02 Feb 1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
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02 Feb 1732 King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia
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02 Feb 1742 British Walpole government resigns
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02 Feb 1762 Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes, " premieres in London
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02 Feb 1795 Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres
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02 Feb 1798 Federal St. Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
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02 Feb 1802 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents)
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02 Feb 1811 Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of San Francisco
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02 Feb 1843 US and British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee
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02 Feb 1848 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in San Francisco
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02 Feb 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
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02 Feb 1848 California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco.
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02 Feb 1848 Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
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02 Feb 1854 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians"
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02 Feb 1863 Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
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02 Feb 1868 Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
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02 Feb 1869 James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
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02 Feb 1870 Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
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02 Feb 1870 Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York
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02 Feb 1876 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
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02 Feb 1878 Greece declares war on Turkey
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02 Feb 1880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
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02 Feb 1882 Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn
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02 Feb 1887 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
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02 Feb 1892 Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)
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02 Feb 1892 Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England vs. Aust SCG
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02 Feb 1892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
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02 Feb 1893 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, New Jersey
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02 Feb 1894 US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
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02 Feb 1899 The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
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02 Feb 1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris
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02 Feb 1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
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02 Feb 1901 Funeral of Queen Victoria.
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02 Feb 1904 US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey
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02 Feb 1906 Pope encyclical against separation of church and state
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02 Feb 1909 Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
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02 Feb 1912 Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
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02 Feb 1913 New York football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
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02 Feb 1913 Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
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02 Feb 1914 Charlie Chaplin's first film appearance, Making a Living premieres.
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02 Feb 1919 Monarchist riot in Portugal
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02 Feb 1920 Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
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02 Feb 1920 France occupies (German) Memel territory
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02 Feb 1920 Tarto / Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
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02 Feb 1920 France occupies Memel.
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02 Feb 1920 The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
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02 Feb 1922 It was 2:22:22 on 2 / 2 / 22
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02 Feb 1922 Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
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02 Feb 1923 Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
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02 Feb 1923 US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
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02 Feb 1924 International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
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02 Feb 1925 Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism and socialism
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02 Feb 1925 Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
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02 Feb 1925 NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began
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02 Feb 1925 Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
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02 Feb 1931 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students
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02 Feb 1931 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria)
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02 Feb 1932 Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
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02 Feb 1932 Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
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02 Feb 1932 Grimmett takes 14 wickets vs. South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
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02 Feb 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
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02 Feb 1933 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament
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02 Feb 1933 Working as maids, the sisters Christine and Léa Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays.
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02 Feb 1934 Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism / Nazism
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02 Feb 1934 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
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02 Feb 1935 Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage Wisc)
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02 Feb 1935 Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
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02 Feb 1942 LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
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02 Feb 1942 US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
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02 Feb 1942 Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of Resistance [against the German occupation of Norway] when Østbanehallen (at present-day Oslo Central Station) was blown up to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
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02 Feb 1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army
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02 Feb 1943 Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
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02 Feb 1943 German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WWII
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02 Feb 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.
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02 Feb 1944 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands
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02 Feb 1944 Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
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02 Feb 1944 Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
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02 Feb 1945 Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
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02 Feb 1946 "Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances
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02 Feb 1948 President Truman urges Congress to adopt a civil rights program
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02 Feb 1949 1st 45 RPM record released
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02 Feb 1949 Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
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02 Feb 1950 "Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 134 performances
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02 Feb 1954 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
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02 Feb 1954 President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
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02 Feb 1954 Snow falls on Gibraltar
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02 Feb 1955 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
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02 Feb 1956 Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
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02 Feb 1957 "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
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02 Feb 1957 UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
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02 Feb 1957 Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
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02 Feb 1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
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02 Feb 1958 Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
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02 Feb 1958 WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
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02 Feb 1959 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
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02 Feb 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident
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02 Feb 1960 Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
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02 Feb 1961 Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
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02 Feb 1962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
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02 Feb 1963 Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
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02 Feb 1964 Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame
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02 Feb 1964 Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
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02 Feb 1965 Joe Ortons "Loot, " premieres in Brighton
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02 Feb 1966 Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
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02 Feb 1967 Bolivia adopts its constitution
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02 Feb 1967 Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
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02 Feb 1968 Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed
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02 Feb 1969 KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Feb 1969 Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
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02 Feb 1970 Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
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02 Feb 1971 Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become Dictator of Uganda
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02 Feb 1971 The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
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02 Feb 1971 Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
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02 Feb 1972 Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
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02 Feb 1972 The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
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02 Feb 1973 "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
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02 Feb 1973 James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th Director of CIA (until July)
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02 Feb 1973 Richath Helms, ends term as 8th Director of CIA
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02 Feb 1974 Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
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02 Feb 1974 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs. Golden State - 1,641)
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02 Feb 1975 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
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02 Feb 1975 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
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02 Feb 1975 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
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02 Feb 1976 "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
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02 Feb 1976 "Rich Little Show, " debuts on NBC-TV
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02 Feb 1976 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
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02 Feb 1976 The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
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02 Feb 1977 Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)
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02 Feb 1977 Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
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02 Feb 1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors
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02 Feb 1980 Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
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02 Feb 1982 "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC
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02 Feb 1982 Government troops and Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria
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02 Feb 1982 San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
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02 Feb 1982 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
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02 Feb 1983 Chicago Absp Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
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02 Feb 1983 Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals
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02 Feb 1984 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
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02 Feb 1984 Lebanese army fight in Beirut
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02 Feb 1985 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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02 Feb 1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances
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02 Feb 1986 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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02 Feb 1986 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
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02 Feb 1986 Oscar Arias Sanchez elected President of Costa Rica
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02 Feb 1987 Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
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02 Feb 1987 Philippines adopts constitution
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02 Feb 1987 After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
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02 Feb 1988 Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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02 Feb 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
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02 Feb 1990 Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl Princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
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02 Feb 1990 Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
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02 Feb 1991 Aravinda De Silva scores 267 vs. New Zealand at Wellington
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02 Feb 1991 NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56
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02 Feb 1991 US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents
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02 Feb 1992 Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
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02 Feb 1992 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 seconds)
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02 Feb 1992 IRS and Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M)
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02 Feb 1992 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40)
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02 Feb 1992 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15
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02 Feb 1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
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02 Feb 1993 Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 seconds)
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02 Feb 1995 "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
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02 Feb 1995 US space shuttle Discovery launched
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02 Feb 1996 Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA
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02 Feb 1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin, New York City
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02 Feb 1997 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT)
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02 Feb 1997 Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic
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02 Feb 1998 Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
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02 Feb 1998 Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
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02 Feb 2000 First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
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02 Feb 2004 Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
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02 Feb 2007 The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
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02 Feb 2012 The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.
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