February 2: Groundhog Day in Canada and the United States
Statue of Alexander Selkirk
- 1438 – Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt were executed at Torda.
- 1709 – Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (commemorative statue pictured) was rescued by English captain Woodes Rogers and the crew of the Duke after spending four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernández archipelago, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.
- 1913 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the world's largest train station in number of platforms, opened at midnight.
- 1942 – The Osvald Group committed the first active event of the Norwegian resistance movement by blowing up Oslo East Station to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
- 2012 – The passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen capsized and sank in rough conditions in the Solomon Sea, resulting in at least 88 deaths.
Piotr Skarga (b. 1536) · Vincenzo Dimech (d. 1831) · Christie Brinkley (b. 1954)
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