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
- 1536 –Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1542 –Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
- 1653 –New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
- 1812 –Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, 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.
- 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.
- 1922 –Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
- 1925 –Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
- 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.
- 1974 –The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
- 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.
- 1987 –After the 1986 People Power Revolution the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
- 1990 –Apartheid: F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
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