What happend on 2nd February

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03.02
1976

Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.

1972

The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday

1971

After a coup in Uganda, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.

1967

The American Basketball Association is formed.

1962

For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.

1952

A tropical storm forms north of Cuba and moves northeast making landfall in Florida. It is the earliest reported formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.

1945

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.

1943

World War II: The last Nazi forces surrender to the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad.

1940

Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.

1935

The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducts the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.