Here is what happened on this day in history.
February 2nd:
1887- First Groundhog Day
1897- Black inventor Alfred Cralle patents the first ice cream scoop
1974- “The Way We Were” becomes Barbra Streisand’s first No. 1 hit
1913- Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City
2014- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dies of drug overdose at age 46
1971- Idi Amin takes power in Uganda
1943- Battle of Stalingrad ends
1980- ABSCAM operation revealed
1962- First U.S. Air Force plane crashes in South Vietnam
1876- National League of baseball is founded
1848- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed
1882- James Joyce is born
1979- Sid Vicious dies of a drug overdose in New York City
1922- Director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered
1949- United States rejects proposal for conference with Stalin
1950- Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing atomic bomb information to Soviets
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