2 February
Notable Births
WestCOL
b. 2001
Colombian streamer (born 1998)
Munetaka Murakami
b. 2000
Japanese baseball player (born 2000)
Jeff Okudah
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Shiho Katō
b. 1998
Japanese singer and model
Ellie Bamber
b. 1997
English actress (born 1997)
Christian Dvorak
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Paul Mescal
b. 1996
Irish actor (born 1996)
Harry Winks
b. 1996
English footballer (born 2001)
Paul Digby
b. 1995
English footballer
Aleksander Jagiełło
b. 1995
Polish footballer
Arfa Karim
b. 1995
Pakistani computer prodigy (1995–2012)
Curtis Lazar
b. 1995
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Remilia
b. 1995
American professional gamer (1995–2019)
Caterina Bosetti
b. 1994
Italian professional volleyball player
Bobby De Cordova-Reid
b. 1993
Jamaican footballer (born 1993)
Ravel Morrison
b. 1993
Jamaica international footballer (born 1993)
Lammtarra
b. 1992
American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse (1992–2014)
Joonas Tamm
b. 1992
Estonian footballer (born 1992)
Nathan Delfouneso
b. 1991
English footballer (born 1991)
Gregory Mertens
b. 1991
Belgian footballer (1991-2015)
Notable Deaths
Brian Murphy (actor)
d. 2025
English comic actor (1932–2025)
Don Murray (actor)
d. 2024
American actor (1929–2024)
Carl Weathers
d. 2024
American actor and football player (1948–2024)
K. Viswanath
d. 2023
Indian director, screenwriter, and actor (1930–2023)
Butch Miles
d. 2023
American jazz drummer (1944–2023)
Captain Tom Moore
d. 2021
British Army officer and fundraiser (1920–2021)
Bernard Ebbers
d. 2020
Canadian-American businessman and fraudster (1941–2020)
Mad Mike Hoare
d. 2020
British-Irish military officer and mercenary (1919–2020)
Bob Elliott (comedian)
d. 2016
American comedian (1923–2016)
Dave Bergman
d. 2015
American baseball player (1953–2015)
Andriy Kuzmenko
d. 2015
Ukrainian musical artist (1968–2015)
The Jacka
d. 2015
American rapper (1977–2015)
Gerd Albrecht
d. 2014
German conductor (1935–2014)
Tommy Aquino
d. 2014
American motorcycle racer
Eduardo Coutinho
d. 2014
Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer
Philip Seymour Hoffman
d. 2014
American actor (1967–2014)
Luis Raúl
d. 2014
Puerto Rican actor and comedian (1962–2014)
Bunny Rugs
d. 2014
Musical artist
Abraham Iyambo
d. 2013
Namibian politician (1961–2013)
Bertrand Russell
d. 1970
Mathematician and philosopher
On This Day in History
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2025
Slovenian NBA player Luka Doncic is traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis in one of the largest trades in American sports history.
Slovenia
2021
The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
Tatmadaw
2012
The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146–165 dead.
MV Rabaul Queen
2007
Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
Catania football riot
2005
The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
Government of Canada
2004
Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
Tennis
2000
First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
Digital cinema
1998
Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.
Cebu Pacific Flight 387
1990
Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
Apartheid
1989
Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
Soviet–Afghan War
1987
After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
People Power Revolution
1982
Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1982 Hama massacre
1980
Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
1971
Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
Idi Amin
1971
The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
Ramsar Convention
1966
Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.
Kashmir
1959
Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
Ural Mountains
1954
The Detroit Red Wings played in the first outdoor hockey game by any NHL team in an exhibition against the Marquette Branch Prison Pirates in Marquette, Michigan.
Detroit Red Wings
1943
World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
World War II
1942
The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
Osvald Group