Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 2
February 2: Candlemas (Western Christianity); Groundhog Day in Canada and the United States.
- 962 - Pope John XII crowned Otto the Great as Holy Roman Emperor, the first in nearly 40 years.
- 1848 - The Mexican-American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, granting the United States the Mexican Cession.
- 1925 - Medical supplies to combat an outbreak of diphtheria reached Nome, Alaska on dog sleds, inspiring the annual Iditarod race across Alaska.
- 1943 - The Battle of Stalingrad concluded with 91,000 tired and starving German soldiers taken captive by the Red Army.
- 1990 - President F.W. de Klerk declared the end of Apartheid in South Africa.
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