February 2 Historical Events

The following events took place on February 2. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.

• 1966
  Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• 1971
  Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
• 1971
  The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
• 1972
  The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
• 1976
  The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
• 1980
  Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
• 1982
  1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.

• 1987
  After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
• 1988
  Auntie Anne’s is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• 1989
  Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
• 1990
  Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
• 2000
  First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
• 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.
• 2007
  The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
• 2012
  The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.