WHAT HAPPENED ON 2. FEBRUARY
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The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia. (2. February 1920)

France occupies Memel. (2. February 1920)

Ulysses by James Joyce is published. (2. February 1922)

Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race. (2. February 1925)

Working as maids, the sisters Christine and Lea Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays. (2. February 1933)

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated. (2. February 1934)

Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine. (2. February 1935)

World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces. (2. February 1943)

Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage. (2. February 1957)

Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. (2. February 1966)

Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda. (2. February 1971)

The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran. (2. February 1971)

The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday. (2. February 1972)

The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. (2. February 1974)

The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. (2. February 1976)

Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation. (2. February 1980)

February 1982 Hama massacre: the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama. (2. February 1982)

After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution. (2. February 1987)

Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (2. February 1988)

Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul. (2. February 1989)