February 2nd

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February 2nd (also called Candlemas ) is the 33rd day of the Gregorian calendar , so there are 332 days (333 days in leap years) left until the end of the year.

Historical Anniversaries
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events

politics and world affairs

The empire around 1000
1387: João I marries Philippa of Lancaster
Buenos Aires shortly after its founding in 1536
1709: The Juan Fernández Islands
1797: Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser
1848: Mexico cedes territory to the United States (red)
1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) and Winston Churchill (right) at the Malta Conference
1990: Frederik Willem de Klerk

business

1875: Baldwin's sprocket wheel machine

science and technology

1863: Alexine Tinne
1945: Hoarding H IX

Culture

1625: Title page of the libretto
1878: Semper Opera

society

2002: Willem-Alexander and Maxima

religion

1837: Gregory XVI

disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

John Zapolya (* 1487)
Nell Gwyn (b. 1650)

18th century

Heinrich Friedrich Link (* 1767)

19th century

1801-1850

Oswald Achenbach (* 1827)

1851-1900

Alexander Cameron Rutherford (b. 1857)
James Joyce (b. 1882)
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (b. 1889)

20th century

1901-1925

Joan Morgan (born 1905)
Masanobu Fukuoka (b. 1913)

1926-1950

Valery Giscard d'Estaing (b. 1926)
Franz Kamphaus (b. 1932)
Lea Ackerman (* 1937)
Dieter Mueller (* 1943)
Farrah Fawcett (born 1947)

1951-1975

Hansi Hinterseer (* 1954)
Hella of senses (born 1959)
Christian Ortner (born 1969)

1976-2000

Shakira (born 1977)
Gemma Arterton (born 1986)

Died

Before the 16th century

Vittorino da Feltre, by Joos van Wassenhove
Martin Schongauer († 1491)

16th to 18th centuries

19th century

Rudolph Suhrlandt († 1862)

20th century

1901-1950

Dmitri Mendeleev († 1907)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler († 1945)
Elisabeth Bronner († 1950)

1951-2000

Anna May Wong († 1961)
Imre Lakatos († 1974)
Gene Kelly († 1996)

21st century

Max Schmeling († 2005)

holidays and commemorations

The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .


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