February 02

Monday 02, 1998:

A Cebu Pacific airlines DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, killing 104

Friday 02, 1990:

Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.

Thursday 02, 1989:

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation.

Tuesday 02, 1982:

1986 - Nurse Anita Cobby is found Dead in a paddock in Prospect, She had been Robbed, Raped + Murdered. 5 men, Micheal Murphy, Gary Murphy, Les Murphy, Micheal Murdoch + John Travers Sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, June 1987 for Anita Cobby's Murder

Saturday 02, 1980:

1980 - Founding congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey.

Friday 02, 1979:

Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose.

Monday 02, 1976:

Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.

Wednesday 02, 1972:

British embassy in Dublin destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday

Tuesday 02, 1971:

In Uganda after a coup, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.

Thursday 02, 1967:

The American Basketball Association is formed.

Friday 02, 1962:

For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.

Saturday 02, 1952:

A tropical storm forms north of Cuba and moves northeast making landfall in Florida. It is the earliest reported formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.

Friday 02, 1945:

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.

Tuesday 02, 1943:

World War II: The last Nazi forces surrender to the Soviets following the Battle of Stalingrad.

Friday 02, 1940:

Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.

Saturday 02, 1935:

The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducted the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.

Thursday 02, 1933:

Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.

Monday 02, 1925:

Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.

Monday 02, 1920:

France occupies Memel.

Thursday 02, 1899:

The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.

Tuesday 02, 1897:

The Pennsylvania state capitol is destroyed by fire.

Wednesday 02, 1887:

In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.

Thursday 02, 1882:

The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.

Monday 02, 1880:

The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.

Saturday 02, 1878:

Greece declares war on Turkey.

Wednesday 02, 1876:

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

Wednesday 02, 1870:

It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.

Wednesday 02, 1848:

California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.

Sunday 02, 1812:

Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, along the California coast.

Saturday 02, 1709:

Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

Sunday 02, 1653:

New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.

Sunday 02, 1536:

Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Tuesday 02, 1509:

Battle of Diu took place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.

Sunday 02, 1119:

Callixtus II becomes Pope.

Thursday 02, 1032:

Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.

Tuesday 02, 962:

Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.

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