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Historical Events
on February 2nd
- Lead Story
- First Groundhog Day,1887
- American Revolution
- Nathanael Greene finds fortification at Steele's Tavern,1781
- Automotive
- Hurley Haywood in quest to win fifth 24 Hours of Daytona,1991
- Civil War
- Albert Sidney Johnston born,1803
- Cold War
- United States rejects proposal for conference with Stalin,1949
- Crime
- Murder in Hollywood: A tale of vice and vixens,1922
- Disaster
- First Donner Party member dies,1847
- General Interest
- Battle of Stalingrad ends,1943
- Idi Amin takes power in Uganda,1971
- ABSCAM operation revealed,1980
- Hollywood
- Gene Kelly dies,1996
- Literary
- James Joyce is born,1882
- Music
- Sid Vicious dies of a drug overdose in New York City,1979
- Old West
- Russians establish Fort Ross,1812
- Presidential
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed,1848
- Sports
- National League of baseball is founded,1876
- Vietnam War
- First U.S. Air Force plane crashes in South Vietnam.,1962
- Antiwar protestors sue Dow Chemical,1970
- World War I
- Zeppelin crashes into North Sea,1916
- World War II
- Quisling becomes prime minister of puppet regime in Norway,1942
- Germans surrender at Stalingrad,1943
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