February 2 - this day in history

February 2, 1141 the battle of Lincoln was held between supporters of King Stephen and Queen Matilda of Scotland. Stephen's army was defeated, and the king himself was captured, which allowed Matilde to seize power in England.

1348 - Battle of Ströva, near Kovno, between the armies of the Teutonic Order and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under the leadership of the Princes Olgerd and Keystut. In honor of the victory in Königsberg, the Church of the Virgin Mary (considered the patroness of the Order) was built.

1848 - California Gold Rush: The first ship carrying Chinese immigrants arrived at the harbor of San Francisco.

1892 - American William Painter from Baltimore (Maryland) received a crown cap patent for tight, tightly closed bottles.

1912 - Frederick Law jumped with a parachute from the Statue of Liberty.

1920 - the premiere of Eugene O'Neal's play Over the Horizon (Pulitzer Prize in Dramatic Art) took place on Broadway.

1932 - the beginning of the work of the Geneva Conference on Disarmament 1932-1935 with the participation of 63 states.

1961 - the first flight of the first Soviet two-stage ICBM on high-boiling fuel components with an autonomous control system, the R-16.

1971 - the Convention on Wetlands was signed in the Iranian city of Ramsar (Mazandran Province). This document is better known as the Ramsar Convention.

1999 - the world's largest (at that time) outdoor advertising was posted on the front facade of the Ukraine department store in Kiev.