What happend on 2nd February

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1998

A Cebu Pacific airlines DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, killing 104

1996

Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.

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.

1989

Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation.

1986

Nurse Anita Cobby is found dead in a paddock in Prospect, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She had been robbed, raped, and murdered. Five men (Micheal Murphy, Gary Murphy, Les Murphy, Micheal Murdoch, and John Travers) are later sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in June of 1987 for Anita Cobby's murder.

1984

Charles II,and Louis the German sign a treaty.

1982

Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama and kills thousands of people.

1980

Abscam: Reports surface that FBI personnel were targeting members of the U.S. Congress in a sting operation.

1980

Founding congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey.

1979

Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose.