2 Februar

The **2nt o Februar** is the 33rd day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 332 days ti come (333 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1536 - Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires.
* 1654 - Scotland in the War o the Three Kinricks: The Battle o Innerlochy taks place.
* 1653 - New Amsterdam (later New York Ceety) is incorporatit.
* 1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued efter bein shipwrecked on ane o the Juan Fernandez Islands in the Paceefic Ocean.
* 1848 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty o Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
* 1887 - The first Groundhog Day is held in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvanie.
* 1901 - Funeral o Queen Victoria.
* 1913 - Grand Central Staition in New York Ceety opens.
* 1922 - Ulysses, bi James Joyce, is published.
* 1943 - Warld War II: The Battle o Stalingrad ends.
* 1987 - A new consitution is adoptit in the Philippines, efter the Fowks' Pouer Revolution.
* 1990 - F. W. de Klerk, Preses o Sooth Africae, announces the release o Nelson Mandela.
* 2002 - Netherlands: Weddin o Willem-Alexander, Prince o Orange an Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti.
* 2004 - Roger Federer becomes the Men's tennis nummer ane.
* 2012 - The ship "MV Rabaul Queen" sinks aff Papua New Guinea, killin an estimatit 165 fowk.
* 2014 - American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dies agit 46.
* 2020 - A rare palindromic (semme backward as forward) date occurs in baith the Unitit Kinrick an Unitit States: 02022020.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The first recordit daith ootside the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae occurs in the Philippines.
* 2021 - Jeff Bezos propales his intention tae step doon as CEO o Amazon.

## Births

* 1650 - Pape Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
* 1770 - George Gordon, 5t Duke o Gordon, Scots nobleman, sodger an politeecian (d. 1836)
* 1873 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (d. 1956)
* 1875 - William Wright Smith, Scots botanist an horticulturalist (d. 1956)
* 1882 - James Joyce, Erse writer (d. 1941)
* 1903 - Hughie Gallacher, Scots fitbawer (d. 1957)
* 1905 - Danny Blair, Scots fitbawer (d. 1985)
* 1905 - Ayn Rand, Roushie-American writer an philosopher (d. 1982)
* 1918 - Luis Nishizawa, Mexican airtist (d. 2014)
* 1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Preses o Fraunce (d. 2020)
* 1928 - Billy McPhail, Scots fitbawer (d. 2003)
* 1929 - Vera Chytilova, Czech film director (d. 2014)
* 1938 - Dave Thomson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
* 1940 - Sir David Jason, Inglis actor
* 1942 - Roger Hynd, Scots fitbawer (d. 2017)
* 1943 - Princess Maria Beatrice o Savoy
* 1946 - Blake Clark, American actor
* 1946 - Isaias Afwerki, Preses o Eritrea
* 1947 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
* 1952 - Park Geun-hye, umwhile Preses o Sooth Korea
* 1955 - Jim Blyth, Scots fitbawer
* 1963 - Andrej Kiska, Preses o Slovakie
* 1969 - Valeri Karpin, Roushie fitbawer
* 1977 - Shakira, Colombian sangster
* 1978 - Andy Aitken, Scots fitbawer
* 1978 - Barry Ferguson, Scots fitbawer
* 1980 - Gavin Newlands, Scots politeecian
* 1986 - Gemma Arterton, Inglis actress
* 1987 - Gerard Piqué, Spainyie fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1250 - Eric XI o Swaden (b. 1216)
* 1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian componer (b. 1525)
* 1769 - Pape Clement XIII (b. 1693)
* 1793 - William Aiton, Scots botanist (b. 1731)
* 1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Roushie chemist (b. 1834)
* 1970 - Bertrand Russell, Breetish philosopher (b. 1872)
* 1979 - Sid Vicious, Breetish sangster (b. 1957)
* 1995 - Fred Perry, Breetish tennis player (b. 1909)
* 1995 - Donald Pleasence, Inglis actor (b. 1919)
* 1996 - Gene Kelly, American actor, dancer an choreographer (b. 1912)
* 2008 - Joshua Lederberg, American biologist (b. 1925)
* 2014 - Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (b. 1967)
* 2017 - Gordon Aikman, Scots ALS campaigner (b. 1985)
* 2021 - Captain Sir Tom Moore, Inglis Warld War II veteran an NHS fundraiser (b. 1920)

## Halidays

* Caunlemas
* Groundhog Day (Unitit States)
* Constitution Day (Philippines)
* Inventor's Day (Thailand)
* Warld Wetlands Day