Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 2
This is a list of selected February 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Vineyard in Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Candlemas (Western Christianity) | unreferenced section |
| 962 – Pope John XII crowned Otto the Great as Holy Roman Emperor, the first in nearly 40 years. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1536 – An expedition to the New World led by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founded what is now Buenos Aires, Argentina. | refimprove section |
| 1653 – The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam received municipal rights, thus becoming a city on territory that is now New York City. | refimprove |
| 1922 – The novel Ulysses was first published in its entirety after this material by author James Joyce first appeared in serialized parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, becoming one of the most important works of Modernist literature. | empty section |
| 1925 – Medical supplies to combat an outbreak of diphtheria reached Nome, Alaska, on dog sleds after a five and a half-day journey, inspiring the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska. | Serum run: multiple issues; Iditarod: refimprove sections, unreferenced sections |
| 1943 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army captured 91,000 tired and starving German soldiers, ending the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in human history. | {{refimprove section}} |
| 1990 – President F.W. de Klerk declared the end of Apartheid in South Africa. | unreferenced section, reads like essay |
Eligible
- 1659 – Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first bottle of South African wine.
- 1974 – The F-16 Fighting Falcon, one of the best-selling jet fighters ever built, had its first flight.
- 2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer became the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he held for a record 237 weeks.
February 2: Groundhog Day in Canada and the United States
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- 1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1848 – The Mexican–American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave 1.36 million square kilometres (530,000 sq mi) of Mexican territory known as the Mexican Cession to the United States in exchange for US$15 million.
- 1920 – The signing of the Treaty of Tartu ended the Estonian War of Independence, with Russia agreeing to recognize the independence of Estonia and renounce in perpetuity all rights to that territory.
- 1982 – The Syrian army bombarded the town of Hama in order to quell a revolt by the Muslim Brotherhood, killing about 7,000–25,000 people.
- 2009 – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the Zimbabwean dollar (banknote pictured) for the third and final time, making Z$1 trillion now only Z$1 of the new currency.