February 2<\/p>\n
1536 \u2013 Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.<\/p>\n
1653 \u2013 New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.<\/p>\n
1709 \u2013 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island for over 4 years, inspiring Daniel Defoe’s adventure book Robinson Crusoe.<\/em><\/p>\n 1848 \u2013 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, is signed.<\/p>\n 1876 \u2013 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs<\/em> of Major League Baseball is formed.<\/p>\n 1887 \u2013 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 Grand Central Terminal rail terminal, often called Grand Central Station, opens in New York City.<\/p>\n 1925 \u2013 Dog sleds loaded with diphtheria serum reach Nome, Alaska,\u00a0 inspiring the Iditarod race.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 The Export-Import Bank of the United States, the official export credit agency of the federal government, is incorporated.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013 Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013\u00a0 The last Soviet armored column leaves Kabul, Afghanistan ending the Soviet\u2013Afghan War<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Chris Kyle is murdered at a shooting range near Chalk Mountain, Texas, by a mentally disturbed veteran he was shooting with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 2 1536 \u2013 Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1653 \u2013 New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated. 1709 \u2013 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island for over 4 years, inspiring Daniel Defoe’s adventure book Robinson Crusoe. 1848 \u2013 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89743,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64437\/revisions\/89743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}