On February 2, 1943, the last German troops inside the ruined city of Stalingrad laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Soviet Red Army. The Battle of Stalingrad was over a
At exactly 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, February 2, 1913, the doors of Grand Central Terminal swung open in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. More than 150,000 people poured through those d
On the afternoon of February 2, 1876, a group of baseball club owners gathered in a private room at the Grand Central Hotel in New York City. They had been invited under the
On the morning of February 2, 1848, in the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo — a sanctuary town north of Mexico City to which the Mexican government had fled as American troops occupied
On February 2, 1536, a Spanish conquistador named Pedro de Mendoza stood on the western bank of a vast, tawny estuary at the southern edge of South America and decreed the founding
On February 2, 962, inside the solemn grandeur of Old St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, a ceremony took place that would define European civilization for nearly nine centu
On the morning of February 1, 2003, hundreds of people had gathered at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in quiet anticipation of what everyone expected to be a routine landing. The
