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.
- 1966Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 1971Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
- 1971The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
- 1972The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
- 1976The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
- 1980Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
- 19821982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
- 1987After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
- 1988Auntie Anne’s is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- 1989Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
- 1990Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
- 2000First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
- 2004Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men’s singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
- 2007The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
- 2012The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.
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