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This day in history: 2 February

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Key facts

544 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 2 February.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2025: Slovenian NBA player Luka Doncic is traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis in one of the largest trades in American sports history.

Holidays and observances

Anniversary of Treaty of Tartu (Estonia)

A quarter day in the Christian liturgical calendar (due to Candlemas). (Scotland)

Catherine de' Ricci

Celebration of Yemanja or Our Lady of Navigators (Candomblé)

Chandeleur (France)

February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Groundhog Day

Jeanne de Lestonnac

Liichtmëssdag (Luxembourg)

Martyrs of Ebsdorf

Our Lady of the Candles (Filipino Catholics)

Events

2025Slovenian NBA player Luka Doncic is traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis in one of the largest trades in American sports history.

2021The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.

2012The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146–165 dead.

2007Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.

2005The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.

2004Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.

2000First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.

1998Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.

1990Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.

1989Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.

1987After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.

1982Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.

1980Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.

1971Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.

1971The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.

1966Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.

1959Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.

1954The Detroit Red Wings played in the first outdoor hockey game by any NHL team in an exhibition against the Marquette Branch Prison Pirates in Marquette, Michigan.

1943World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.

1942The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.

1935Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.

1934The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.

1925Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.

1922The uprising called the "pork mutiny" starts in the region between Kuolajärvi and Savukoski in Finland.

1922Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

1920The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.

1913Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.

1909The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPPC cartel in the United States.

1901Funeral of Queen Victoria.

1899The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.

1887In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.

1881The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are imparted.

1876The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.

1870The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.

1868Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burn it to the ground.

1850Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.

1848Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.

1814The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.

1797The siege of Mantua ends after eight months when Count Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser surrenders the fortress of Mantua to Napoleon Bonaparte. The fall of Mantua secures French control over Northern Italy and marks the beginning of the conclu

1725J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis.{{cite web

Born on this day

2006Lucas Bergvall, Swedish footballer

2004Eleonore Caburet, French rhythmic gymnast

2001Westcol, Colombian online streamer

2000Munetaka Murakami, Japanese baseball player

1999Jeff Okudah, American football player

1998Shiho Katō, Japanese singer and model

1997Ellie Bamber, English actress

1996Christian Dvorak, American ice hockey player

1996Harry Winks, English footballer

1996Paul Mescal, Irish actor

1995Aleksander Jagiełło, Polish footballer

1995Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer prodigy

1995Curtis Lazar, Canadian ice hockey player

1995Paul Digby, English footballer

1995Remilia, American professional gamer

1994Caterina Bosetti, Italian volleyball player

1993Bobby De Cordova-Reid, English-Jamaican footballer

1993Ravel Morrison, English footballer

1992Joonas Tamm, Estonian footballer

1992Lammtarra, American race horse

1991Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer

1991Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer

1991Shohei Nanba, Japanese actor

1989Harrison Smith, American football player

1989Southside, American record producer

1988Brad Peacock, American baseball player

1988JuJu Chan, Hong Kong-American actress, martial artist, singer, and writer

1988Zosia Mamet, American actress

1987Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player

1987Athena Imperial, Filipino journalist, Miss Earth-Water 2011

1987Faydee, Australian singer

1987Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer

1987Javon Ringer, American football player

1987Jill Scott, English footballer

1987Martin Spanjers, American actor and producer

1987Mimi Page, American singer-songwriter and composer

1987Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player

1986Gemma Arterton, English actress and singer

1986Miwa Asao, Japanese volleyball player

1985Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player

Died on this day

2025Brian Murphy, English comic actor

2024Carl Weathers, American football player and actor

2024Don Murray, American actor

2023Butch Miles, American jazz drummer

2023K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter

2021Captain Sir Tom Moore, British Army officer and charity campaigner

2020Bernard Ebbers, Canadian businessman, the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom

2020Mad Mike Hoare, British-Irish military officer and mercenary

2016Bob Elliott, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

2015Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter and actor

2015Dave Bergman, American baseball player

2015Joseph Alfidi, American pianist, composer, and conductor

2015Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist

2015Stewart Stern, American screenwriter

2015The Jacka, American rapper and producer

2014Bunny Rugs, Jamaican singer

2014Eduardo Coutinho, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

2014Gerd Albrecht, German conductor

2014Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican comedian and actor

2014Nicholas Brooks, English historian

2014Nigel Walker, English footballer

2014Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer

2014Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer

2013Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician

2013Chris Kyle, American soldier and sniper

2013Guy F. Tozzoli, American architect

2013John Kerr, American actor and lawyer

2013Lino Oviedo, Paraguayan general and politician

2013Pepper Paire, American baseball player

2013P. Shanmugam, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Puducherry

Quote of the day

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Seneca

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