Today second february in history. 506 - King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out 962 - Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor 1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III 1119 - Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II 1141 - Battle of Lincoln: King Stephen captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester 1461 - 2nd battle of St Albans-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists 1536 - Pedro de Mendoza founds Argentine city of Buenos Aires 1542 - Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente. 1550 - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, freed 1633 - M Rossis opera Erminia sul Giordano, premieres in Rome 1637 - Zorillas El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las, premieres in Madrid 1653 - New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York) 1709 - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires Robinson Crusoe 1714 - Nicholas Rowes tragedy of Jane Shore, premieres in London 1731 - George F Handels opera Poro, premieres in London 1732 - King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia 1742 - British Walpole government resigns 1762 - Thomas Arnes opera Artaxerxes, premieres in London 1787 - Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. 1795 - Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres 1798 - Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire 1802 - 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents) 1811 - Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF 1823 - Rossinis opera Semiramide premieres in Venice 1829 - Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral on fire, does £60,000 damage 1843 - US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee 1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million 1852 - 1st British public mens toilet opens (Fleet St London) 1852 - Alexandre Dumas Jrs Le Dame aux Camélias, premieres in Paris 1854 - Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution of Armenians 1863 - Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time 1864 - -Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida 1869 - James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade 1870 - Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum 1876 - Baseballs National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis 1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey 1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton 1882 - Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn 1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed. 1892 - Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) 1892 - Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England v Aust SCG 1892 - Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby 1893 - 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ 1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island 1899 - The Australian Premiers Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australias capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne. 1900 - Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise premieres in Paris 1901 - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization 1901 - Queen Victorias funeral takes place. 1906 - Pope encyclical against separation of church & state 1909 - Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris 1912 - Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe) 1913 - NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe 1913 - NYCs Grand Central Terminal opens 1914 - James Royce Shannons musical Shameen Dhu, premieres in NYC 1919 - Monarchist riot in Portugal 1920 - Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace) 1920 - France occupies (German) Memel territory 1920 - Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence 1922 - It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22 1922 - James Joyces Ulysses published in Paris (1,000 copies) 1923 - Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio 1923 - US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries 1924 - International Ski Federation (FIS) forms 1925 - Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism 1925 - Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km 1925 - NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began 1926 - 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours 1927 - Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthys Rio Rita, premieres in NYC 1927 - Ziegfeld Theater (Loews Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC 1931 - 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students 1931 - 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria) 1932 - Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia) 1932 - Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries 1932 - Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83) 1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corp organized 1933 - 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament 1933 - Hermann Goering bans communist meetings/ demonstrations in Germany 1933 - Ucickys Rotten Morning, premieres in Berlin 1934 - Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/ nazism 1935 - Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage Wisc) 1935 - Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine. 1940 - Frank Sinatras singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch) 1942 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans 1942 - US auto factories switch from commercial to war production 1943 - Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army 1943 - Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest 1943 - German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II 1944 - 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands 1944 - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory 1944 - Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action 1944 - Edward Chodorovs Decision, premieres in NYC 1945 - Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp 1946 - Nellie Bly closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances 1946 - The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made. 1948 - President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1949 - Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident 1950 - Arms & the Girl opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances 1950 - 1st broadcast of Whats My Line, on CBS-TV 1951 - -35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
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