GOOD MORNING - TODAY IS SUNDAY, February 02nd, the 33rd day of 2014 with 332 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 6:57 and sunset is @ 4:58. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mars, Saturn & Venus. The evening stars are, Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune & Uranus. ON THIS DAY IN: 962 - Otto I invaded Italy and is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1536 - The Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.| 1653 - New Amsterdam -- now New York City -- was incorporated. 1801 - The first parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland assembled. 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ended the Mexican War. 1848 - The United States paid Mexico $15 million for lands that eventually becameArizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. 1863 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens decided to use the pseudonym Mark Twain. 1876 - The National Baseball League was founded with eight teams: Boston, Chicago,Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville, and Hartford. 1878 - Greece declared war on Turkey. 1887 - The first Groundhog Day was celebrated in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. 1892 - William Painter of Baltimore, Maryland, patented the crown-cork bottle cap. 1916 - U.S. Senate voted independence for the Philippines, effective in 1921. 1936 - Babe Ruth was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1943 - The last German troops in Stalingrad surrendered to the Red Army, ending one of the pivotal battles of World War II. 1946 - The game Twenty Questions was first aired on radio. 1950 - Whats My Line? premiered on TV. 1967 - The American Basketball Association was formed. 1971 - Idi Amin assumed power in Uganda, following a coup ousting President Milton Obote. 1980 - Details of ABSCAM, an FBI operation to uncover political corruption in the government, were released to the public. The FBI had conducted a sting operation targeting members of Congress using phony Arab businessmen. 1989 - The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation in Afghanistan. 1990 - President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela. 2003 - After 13 years as president of Czechoslovakia and then of the Czech Republic,Vaclav Havel gave his farewell address. 2006 - An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
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