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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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Candlemas (Western Christianity) refimprove sections
962Pope John XII crowned Otto the Great as Holy Roman Emperor, the first in nearly 40 years. refimprove section
1536 – An expedition to the New World led by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founded what is now Buenos Aires, Argentina. unreferenced section
1653 – The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam received municipal rights, thus becoming a city on territory that is now New York City. refimprove section
1659Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first bottle of South African wine intro needs rewrite
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. refimprove section
1922 – The novel Ulysses by James Joyce was first published in its entirety, becoming one of the most important works of modernist literature. refimprove sections
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: original research; Iditarod: refimprove sections
1943World 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
1971 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands was signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. COI, needs more footnotes
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. disagreement in sources on actual date bombing began. See article talk page
1990 – President F. W. de Klerk declared the end of apartheid in South Africa. refimprove section
2009 – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalued the Zimbabwean dollar for the third and final time, making Z$1 trillion now only Z$1 of the new currency. refimprove section

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February 2: Groundhog Day in Canada and the United States

Statue of Alexander Selkirk
Statue of Alexander Selkirk

Piotr Skarga (b. 1536) · Vincenzo Dimech (d. 1831) · Christie Brinkley (b. 1954)

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