What are the important events that happened on February 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 2 is the 33rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 20, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,738,454,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘triacontatrigon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 380 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,426 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 2 Historical Events
- 962 –Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
- 1207 –Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established.
- 1542 –Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
- 1899 –The Australian Premiers’ Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia’s capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
- 1920 –France occupies Memel.
- 1934 –The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
- 1957 –Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
- 1965 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 1972 –The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
- 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.
Who were born on February 2?
- 1841 –François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)
- 1912 –Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (d. 1997)
- 1923 –Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988)
- 1929 –George Band, British mountaineer (d. 2011)
- 1954 –John Tudor, American baseball player
- 1970 –Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1982 –Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress
- 1983 –Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
- 1983 –Will South, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
- 1993 –Ravel Morrison, English footballer
Who died on February 2?
- 1529 –Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
- 1580 –Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
- 1661 –Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
- 1675 –Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (born ca.1594)
- 1688 –Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
- 1948 –Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
- 1988 –Panos Gavalas, Greek singer and musician (b. 1926)
- 1999 –David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
- 2007 –Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
- 2007 –Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
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