This Day in History
02 Feb 1032
Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy succeeding Rudolf III
02 Feb 1141
Battle of Lincoln King Stephen captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert 1st Earl of Gloucester
02 Feb 1349
By this date at least 200 people a day were being buried in London as a result of the Black Death
02 Feb 1536
Pedro de Mendoza founds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
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Idi Amin takes power in Uganda
One week after toppling the regime of Ugandan leader Milton Obote Major General Idi Amin declares himself president of Uganda and chief of the armed forces. Am...
Battle of Stalingrad ends
On this day the last German troops in the Soviet city of Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II.On June 22 19...
ABSCAM operation revealed
On February 2 1980 details of ABSCAM an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government are released to the public. Thirty-one public offici...
First Groundhog Day
On this day in 1887 Groundhog Day featuring a rodent meteorologist is celebrated for the first time at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania. A...
Quisling becomes prime minister of puppet regime in Norway
On this day Vidkun Quisling a collaborator with the German occupiers of Norway is established as prime minister of a puppet government.On April 9 1940 Germ...
Germans surrender at Stalingrad
On this day the last of the German forces fighting at Stalingrad surrender despite Hitlers earlier declaration that Surrender is out of the que...
First U.S. Air Force plane crashes in South Vietnam.
The first U.S. Air Force plane is lost in South Vietnam. The C-123 aircraft crashed while spraying defoliant on a Viet Cong ambush site.The aircraft was part of...
Antiwar protestors sue Dow Chemical
Antiwar protestors take legal action in an attempt to prove that the Dow Chemical Company is still making napalm. Dow had claimed that it had stopped making nap...
National League of baseball is founded
On February 2 1876 the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs which comes to be more commonly known as the National League (NL) is formed. The Ameri...
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed
On this day in 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo ...
Russians establish Fort Ross
Staking a tenuous claim to the riches of the Far West Russians establish Fort Ross on the coast north of San Francisco.As a growing empire with a long Pacific ...
James Joyce is born
Novelist James Joyce is born this day in Dublin Ireland the eldest of 10 children. His father a cheerful neer-do-well will eventually go bankrupt.Jo...
Sid Vicious dies of a drug overdose in New York City
To the New York City Police Department and Medical Examiners Office he was John Simon Ritchie a 22-year-old Englishman under indictment for murder but now dea...
Gene Kelly dies
On this day in 1996 the dancer actor and choreographer Gene Kelly dies at the age of 83 at his home in Beverly Hills California.Born in Pittsburgh in 1912 ...
First Donner Party member dies
On this day in 1847 the first woman of a group of pioneers commonly known as the Donner Party dies during the groups journey through a Sierra Nevada mo...
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