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Events on February 2

• 1536 The Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza founds the city of Puerto de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre, modern-day Buenos Aires.
• 1558 The High School of Jena, founded by Johann Friedrich I of Saxony, is elevated to the University of Jena by Emperor Ferdinand I in 1557 and begins teaching with its opening.
• 1709 The Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk is rescued from the otherwise uninhabited island of Más a Tierra in the Juan Fernández Archipelago. His fate provides the material for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
• 1913 New York's Grand Central Terminal is inaugurated. It has since been the world's largest railway station.
• 1943 The Battle of Stalingrad ends with the capitulation of the German and Romanian units commanded by General of Infantry Karl Strecker in the northern pocket. A total of around 108,000 soldiers from the 6th Army are taken into Soviet captivity.
• 1952 In Dortmund, the Westfalenhalle, rebuilt after its destruction in the Second World War and the largest sports hall in Europe with 13,500 seats, is inaugurated by German Federal President Theodor Heuss.
• 1974 The first Playmobil figures are presented at the Nuremberg Toy Fair.
• 1990 The Central Committee of the CPSU relinquishes the party's monopoly on power in the Soviet Union.
• 1991 In Passau, the German Judo Federation and the German Judo Association of the former GDR unite while retaining the name German Judo Federation.
• 2002 The Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta marry in Amsterdam.
• 2004 By defeating the Russian Marat Michailowitsch Safin in the final of the Australian Open in Melbourne, the Swiss Roger Federer wins his second Grand Slam title and becomes the world's number one in tennis for the first time.
• 2009 Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe forces the central bank to issue the Fourth Zimbabwean Dollar. Under the currency reform, one trillion Third Zimbabwean Dollars receive the value of 1 Fourth Zimbabwean Dollar.

Born on February 2

• 1873 Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat, SS general, politician and war criminal
• 1882 James Joyce, Irish writer
• 1901 Jascha Heifetz, American-Russian musician
• 1911 Jussi Björling, Swedish singer
• 1930 Reiner Süß, German chamber singer, entertainer and politician
• 1942 Graham Nash, British musician and songwriter
• 1950 Barbara Sukowa, German actress
• 1970 Anton Hofreiter, German politician
• 1970 Erik ten Hag, Dutch football manager
• 1980 Angela Finger-Erben, German television presenter

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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