What happend on 2nd February

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03.02
1876

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.

1870

It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.

1848

California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.

1848

Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the war.

1812

Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, along the California coast.

1709

Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

1653

New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.

1536

Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1509

Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.

1119

Callixtus II becomes Pope.