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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 2
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Tine Balder [Clementine Alabama Cobbaut]; Flemish actress (Antigone).
- 100th: 1924 - International Ski Federation (FIS) founded.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of [Clyde] Skip Batten in Los Angeles, California, USA; rocker (Byrds - "Turn Turn Turn").
- 90th: 1934 - Dutch Roman Catholic Bishops warn against fascism/Nazism.
- 80th: 1944 - 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands.
- 80th: 1944 - Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory.
- 80th: 1944 - Major League Baseball officials meet in New York City, New York to discuss postwar action.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Andrew Davis in Ashbridge, England; conductor (New Philharmonic Orchestra-London).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Katherine Crawford in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Gemini Man, Captains and the Kings).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Ursula Oppens in New York City, New York, USA; pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-New York City).
- 70th: 1954 - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 points in basketball game.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Christie Brinkley; model (Sports Illustrated), actress (Vacation).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Jayantha Amerasinghe; cricket player (two Tests for Sri Lanka vs New Zealand 1983).
- 70th: 1954 - US President Dwight Eisenhower reports detonation of first Hydrogen bomb (done in 1952).
- 60th: 1964 - GI Joe debuts as a popular American boy's toy.
- 60th: 1964 - Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame.
- 60th: 1964 - Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) wins Olympic gold for figure skating.
- 50th: 1974 - Barbra Streisand's first #1 hit, "The Way We Were".
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of David Buck in Honolulu, Hawaii; kayak (alternate-Olympics-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of J R Conrad; offensive tackle/guard (New York Jets).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Jeff Cassar; soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Bénédictions), dies at age 80.
- 50th: 1974 - Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary".
- 50th: 1974 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena, Ohio (1641 - Cleveland Cavaliers versus Golden State Warriors).
- 40th: 1984 - Lebanese army fight in Beirut.
- 30th: 1994 - Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at age 75.
- 20th: 2004 - An eleven-story apartment building collapses in Konya, Turkey, killing more than 90 residents.
- 15th: 2009 - Odyssey Marine of Florida announces it has discovered the wreck of the British warship HMS Victory in the English Channel. The ship sunk in a storm in 1744 with 1150 sailors and four tons of gold.
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