February 2
February 2 is the 33rd day of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
962: Pope John XII crowned king Otone I the Holy Roman Empire
1032: Conrad II of the Holy Empire Romen becomes King of Burgundy
1119: Callixtus II becomes pope
1536: Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founded the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
1600: Michael the Brave was addressed, in Alba Iulia, Pope Clement VII asking for help against the Ottomans
1744: Pope Benedict XIV encyclical letter published "Inter omnigenas" moral responsibility eyes of Christians who are ashamed to confess their faith
1808: Pope Pius VII not to block aderta continental Europes imposed by Napoleon all States to isolate England. Napoleon, in retaliation, took Rome, PA who has embedded it in the United Italic with Ancona, Macerata, Urbino and Camerino
1812: Russia founded a colony for the leather trade in Fort Ross (Calif.)
1848: Mexican-American War: A peace treaty was signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo, which put an end to war Trattori
1848: the California Gold Rush: Chinese immigrants first ship landed on the coast of California (San Francisco) in search of fortune
1870: evolutionists lie was exposed: to demonstrate that the famous Cardiff Giant was nothing more than restore the plaster and not petrified of a human being
1871: Rome becomes the capital city of Italy
1889: the National Theatre in Bucharest are installed the first two electric lamps for public lighting
1928: Appears magazine "Flight parrot" (until 1945, in several series), under the direction of Tudor Arghezi
1943: World War II: Soviet Army victory in the famous Battle of Stalingrad marked a turning point in the conduct of war
1971: Idi Amin became dictator of Uganda
1990: It is re-established Romanian Society of Philosophy
1990: Bucharest Military Court pronounced sentence in the trial of four of Ceausescu's closest collaborators: Manea Manescu, Tudor Postelnicu, Emil Bobu, Ion Dinca - life imprisonment and confiscation of personal property total
1998: Launch of new TV channel - Home TV
2009: Government of Zimbabwe announced a cut of 12 zerori the Zimbabwean dollar. Thus, one trillion dollars were reviewed zimbabweni Zimbabwe for a dollar again.
Births
1649: Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
1711: Count von Kaunitz, Austrian politician, chancellor in the reign of Empress Maria Theresa
1754: Maurice de Talleyrand Charles, French politician and diplomat (d. 1838)
1800: Sándor Abday, actor, playwright and Hungarian writer (d.1882)
1816: Anastasie Fatu, Romanian physician and naturalist, founder of the Botanical Garden of Iasi (d. 1886)
1845: Ivan Pulyui, physicist, inventor and Ukrainian patriot (d. 1918)
1871: Constantin Isopescu-Greek, Romanian jurist and politician, active in the fight for the Romanian National Unitary State (d. 1938)
1880: Leon Biju, Romanian painter (d. 1970)
1882: James Joyce, Irish writer of English (d. 1941)
1889: Traian Savulescu, Romanian biologist, founder of the Romanian School of Phytopathology, member and president of the Romanian Academy (d. 1963)
1901: John N. Bancila, Romanian geologist, member of the Romanian Academy (d. 2001)
1915: Abba Eban, Israeli diplomatic and politician (d. 2002)
1925: George Tofan, Romanian artist
1926: Valery Giscard D'Estaing, French politician, President of the French Republic during 1974-1981.
1926: Elijah Pence, Adventist pastor, aticomunist fighter.
1934: Bettino Craxi, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy in the period 1983-1987 (d. 2000)
1940: Adrian Anghelescu, Romanian literary critic and historian
1947: Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
Vladimir Gaitan, Romanian actor and movie theater
1950: Serafim Urechean politician in Moldova
1955: Leszek Engelking, Polish poet and writer
1958: George Gregory, Romanian writer and orientalist
1977: Shakira, Colombian singer
1987: Gerard Piqué, Spanish football
Deaths
1660: Gaston, Duke of Orleans, son of King Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici (b. 1608)
1896: Nicholas Beldiceanu, Romanian poet (b. 1844)
1948: Smaranda Braescu, aviation and world-renowned Romanian paratrooper (b. 1897)
1954: Theodor Rogalski, Romanian composer (b. 1901)
1964: Ion Marin Sadoveanu, novelist, poet, playwright and essayist Romanian (b. 1893)
1970: Lord Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, writer and English politician, Nobel laureate (b. 1872)
1993: Michael Klein, Romanian footballer (b. 1959)
1996: Gene Kelly, American actor (b. 1912)
2009: Marius Pepino, Romanian actor
Ciopraga Constantin, Romanian literary critic and historian (b. 1916)
Celebrate
(†) Candlemas (eat fish) (Orthodox Christian calendar)
Candlemas, St. Cornel (Roman Catholic calendar)
Our Lord and God Jesus (Greek Catholic calendar)
