February 3: Setsubun in Japan; Four Chaplains' Day in the United States
José de San Martín
- 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: British forces captured the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius after a brief skirmish.
- 1813 – Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín (pictured) and his Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers gained a largely symbolic victory against a royalist army in the Battle of San Lorenzo.
- 1953 – Hundreds of native creoles known as forros were massacred in São Tomé by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners.
- 1971 – New York City Police officer Frank Serpico, who had reported police corruption to the department and the press, was shot and wounded under questionable circumstances.
- 2010 – A cast of L'Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sold for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record for most expensive sculpture sold at a public auction.
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