What happened on February 2nd?
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| 1626 | Coronation of Britain's King Charles I Learn more.. |
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| 1653 | New Amsterdam (New York City) is incorporated as a city Learn more.. |
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| 1709 | Alexander Selkirk rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Learn more.. |
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| 1848 | The war between the U.S. and Mexico ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Learn more.. |
| 1852 | The first public flushing toilet is opened in London Learn more.. |
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| 1876 | The National League, the oldest existing major-league professional baseball organisation, begins play as the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs Learn more.. |
| 1882 | Irish novelist and poet James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more.. |
| 1887 | The first Groundhog Day is held, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania Learn more.. |
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| 1901 | Queen Victoria is interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park. Learn more.. |
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| 1912 | Frederick Rodman Law performed what was considered the first motion-picture stunt, parachuting from the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor Learn more.. |
| 1913 | Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City Learn more.. |
| 1914 | Chaplin makes his first film, Making a Living, a one-reel comedy Learn more.. |
| 1922 | James Joyce's Ulysses is published in its entirety in Paris on what happened to be Joyce's 40th birthday Learn more.. |
| 1925 | 20 mushers embark on a journey to transport medicine to Nome, Alaska, inspiring the Iditarod Race Learn more.. |
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| 1970 | English mathematician, historian, philosopher and Nobel Prize laureate Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, dies Learn more.. |
| 1971 | Idi Amin declares himself president of Uganda and for the next eight years heads a regime that was noted for its brutality Learn more.. |
| 1972 | British embassy in Dublin is destroyed Learn more.. |
| 1977 | Colombian singer-songwriter, producer and actress Shakira is born Learn more.. |
| 1979 | Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, early proponents of British punk rock, dies of a drug overdose in New York City Learn more.. |
| 1987 | Terry Waite, Assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury, is kidnapped in Beirut Learn more.. |
| 1990 | In South Africa, the 30-year-old ban on the African National Congress was lifted by President F.W. de Klerk Learn more.. |
| 1996 | American dancer and actor Gene Kelly dies Learn more.. |
| 2006 | Astronomers report that the object 2003 UB313 has a diameter some 30% greater than that of Pluto, fuelling the debate as to whether both, or neither, should be considered planets Learn more.. |
| 2013 | François Hollande visits Timbuktu, who's residents are grateful that French intervention helped drive Islamist militants from the city Learn more.. |
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