February 2

February 2nd will be the 33th day of 2023. This year, it will be a Thursday which will be in week 5. We will be the 2nd of February 2023 in 5 months.

Aquarius

Zodiac sign

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What happened that day?

2012: The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146-165 dead.
2005: The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
2004: Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2000: First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
1990: Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
1989: Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1987: After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1982: Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1980: Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1971: The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1971: Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1966: Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1943: World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last German troops in the city.
1942: The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
1935: Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
1934: The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1925: Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1922: Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1920: France occupies Memel.
1920: The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1913: Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
1901: Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1899: The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1887: In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1876: The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1868: Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
1850: Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
1848: Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1709: Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
1653: New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1536: Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1461: Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.
1438: Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
1207: Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
1141: The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
1032: Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
962: Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, [Holy Roman Emperor](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor), the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
880: Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
506: Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".