02 February History


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  • 962    -    Otto I invades Italy and is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 1032    -    Conrad II claims the throne of France.
  • 1494    -    Columbus begins the practice using Indians as slaves.
  • 1571    -    All eight members of a Jesuit mission in Virginia are murdered by Indians who pretended to be their friends.
  • 1626    -    Charles I is crowned King of England. Fierce internal struggles between the monarchy and Parliament characterized 17th century English politics.
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  • 1848    -    The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo formally ends the Mexican War.
  • 1865    -    Confederate raider William Quantrill and his bushwackers rob citizens, burn a railroad depot and steal horses from Midway, Kentucky.
  • 1870    -    The press agencies Havas, Reuter and Wolff sign an agreement whereby between them they can cover the whole world.
  • 1876    -    The National Baseball League is founded with eight teams.
  • 1900    -    Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis agree to form baseball's American League.
  • 1901    -    Mexican government troops are badly beaten by Yaqui Indians.
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  • 1916    -    U.S. Senate votes independence for Philippines, effective in 1921.
  • 1921    -    Airmail service opens between New York and San Francisco. Airmail's First Day.
  • 1934    -    Alfred Rosenberg is made philosophical chief of the Nazi Party.
  • 1939    -    Hungary breaks relations with the Soviet Union.
  • 1943    -    Last of the German strongholds at Stalingrad surrender to the Red army.
  • 1944    -    The Germans stop an Allied attack at Anzio, Italy.
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  • 1945    -    Some 1,200 Royal Air Force planes blast Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe.
  • 1948    -    The United States and Italy sign a pact of friendship, commerce and navigation.
  • 1959    -    Arlington and Norfolk, Va., peacefully desegregate public schools.
  • 1960    -    The U.S. Senate approves 23rd Amendment calling for a ban on the poll tax.
  • 1972    -    The Winter Olympics begin in Sapporo, Japan.
  • 1978    -    U.S. Jewish leaders bar a meeting with Egypt's Anwar Sadat.
  • 1987    -    Largest steel strike in American history, in progress since August, ends.

  • 02 February Birthdays

  • 1754    -    Charles Maurice de Tallyrand-Perigord, minister of foreign affairs for Napoleon I, who represented France brilliantly at the Congress of Vienna.
  • 1882    -    James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (Ulysses, Portrait of a Young Man).
  • 1890    -    Charles Correl, radio performer.
  • 1895    -    George Halas, National Football League co-founder.