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International observance days, weeks, and months for February 2, 2026. Plus historical events and birthdays.
February 2, 2026 celebrates World Play Your Ukulele Day, plus 1 more. Every year on February 2nd, World Play Your Ukulele Day encourages music lovers to get out their four-stringed instrument and strum away. It’s also a day to get people interested in the ukulele.
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Each year on February 2nd, World Wetlands Day celebrates the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands and spreads awareness for the world’s vanishing wetlands.
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Events that occurred on February 2 throughout history
The United States and Mexico sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty defined the boundary between the two countries as the Rio Grande River.
Using Thomas Edison's kinetoscope, William K.L. Dickson filmed Fred Ott as he sneezed at Edison's Black Maria Studio. Named "Record of a Sneeze," it consisted of 45 frames and is the first film recorded in the studio. It is registered as a photograph but not as a film because the category did not exist at the time.
Considered one of the film world's first stuntmen, Frederick R. Law parachuted from the torch of the Statue of Liberty and landed 30 feet from the bay. This wasn't his first parachute jump nor would it be his last.
Sylvia Beach publishes the complete novel Ulysses by James Joyce.
After a week of mushing 625 miles of brutal conditions, 20 drivers and their dogs safely relay a delivery of 300,000 doses of Diptheria serum to Nome, Alaska. February 2nd Celebrated History