February 2

Definition: February 2

February 2

Noun

1. (US) if the ground hog emerges and sees his shadow there will be 6 more weeks of winter.

Synonym: February 2

Synonym: Groundhog Day (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: February 2

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 332 days remaining, (333 in leap years).

Events

962 - Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
1119 - Callixtus II becomes Pope.
1536 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
1812 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.
1848 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is singed ending the war.
1848 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.
1870 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.
1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey.
1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
1882 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1897 - The Pennsylvania state capitol is destroyed by fire.
1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
1920 - Estonia declares its independence from Russia.
1920 - France occupies Memel.
1925 - Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.
1935 - The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducted the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.
1940 - Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.
1943 - World War II: The last Nazi forces surrender to the Soviets following the Battle of Stalingrad.
1945 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
1962 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.
1967 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
1971 - In Uganda after a coup, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.
1980 - Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel were targeting members of the United States Congress in a sting operation.
1989 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation.
1990 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
1998 - A Cebu Pacific airlines DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines killing 104

Births

1650 - Nell Gwynne, actress, royal mistress (+ 1687)
1711 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, diplomat (+ 1794)
1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, politician (+ 1838)
1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate general (+ 1862)
1829 - Alfred Brehm, zoologist (+ 1884)
1878 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer
1882 - James Joyce, author (+ 1941)
1888 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer
1895 - George Halas, American football player, coach, co-founder of the National Football League (+ [[1983)
1901 - Jascha Heifetz, musician (+ 1987)
1905 - Ayn Rand, author (+ 1982)
1906 - Gale Gordon, actor (+ 1995)
1915 - Abba Eban, diplomat (+ 2002)
1923 - James Dickey, poet, author (+ 1997)
1923 - Liz Smith, gossip columnist
1925 - Elaine Stritch, actress
1926 - Valery Giscard d'Estaing, politican
1927 - Stan Getz, musician (+ 1991)
1931 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
1937 - Tom Smothers, musician, comedian, half of the Smothers Brothers
1942 - Graham Nash, musician
1947 - Farrah Fawcet, actress
1947 - Melanie, singer
1950 - Barbara Sukowa, actress
1954 - Christie Brinkley, model
1977 - Shakira, singer

Deaths

1648 - George Abbot, english writer
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, film director
1959 - rock and roll performers Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa
1969 - Boris Karloff, actor
1970 - Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 (+ 1970)
1979 - Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols
1992 - Bert Parks, game show host, Miss America host
1995 - Donald Pleasence, actor
1996 - Gene Kelly, dancer, actor, director
2003 - Lou Harrison, composer

Holidays and observances

Catholicism - Presentation of the Lord.
Catholicism - World Day for Consecrated Life (Feb. 2-3 in the U.S)
Ancient Latvia - Veja Diena observed
United States - Groundhog Day
Candlemas is one of the Scottish quarter days in the Christian calendar

See Also:

February 1 - February 3 - January 2 - March 2 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "February 2."

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Crosswords: February 2

Specialty definitions using "February 2": Acorn Computers Ltd. ♦ Cotton competitiveness provisions ♦ Object Management Group ♦ UC ♦ Watcom International, Winds. (references)

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Commercial Usage: February 2

Domain	Title
Books	Management and Processing of Complex Data Structures: Third Workshop on Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Hamburg, Germany, February 2 (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: February 2

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	February 2.Credit: Library of Congress.		Democratic Republican Party convention, 1967 February 2 at the Changch'ung gymnasium to select the presidential candidate : we have to select party Chairman Mr. Park Chung Hee.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: February 2

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		One major Franchising 4-day trade event called International Exhibition of Franchising was held for the first time from January 30 to February 2, 1999. Several seminars were held in parallel during this trade show. Six U.S. firms participated in the 1999 event, but the majority of participants were from Greece and other E.U. countries. (references)
Economic History	Estonia	On February 2, 1920 the Treaty of Tartu-the Soviet Union's first foreign peace treaty-was signed by the Republic of Estonia and Soviet Russia. (references)
	Turkey	Turkish Government passed a new electricity market law (Law No. 4628) on February 2, 2001. The new law stipulates that an independent regulatory body will be established to regulate the trading between power generation and distribution companies. (references)
Human Rights	Bolivia	Trujillo's mother presented the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in June 1999. Security forces had detained Trujillo, a 21-year-old university student, in December 1971, and he never was seen again after February 2, 1972. Trujillo's mother first presented his case to the IACHR in September 1992. In 1996 President Sanchez de Lozada's Government accepted responsibility for Trujillo's arrest and disappearance and named those responsible but did not hold them accountable. (references)
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Anagrams: February 2

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "2-a-b-e-f-r-r-u-y"
	-3 letters: brayer, rarefy, rebury.
	-4 letters: barer, barre, barye, berry, burry, buyer, faery, farer, ferry, feuar, fryer, furry, rebar, rebuy, refry, urare, yarer, yerba.
	-5 letters: abye, aery, bare, barf, bear, beau, brae, bray, bura, burr, bury, byre, eyra, fare, fear, frae, fray, fury, rare, rear, rube, ruby, ruer, urea, yare, year.
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