February 2nd, 1972

Born on February 2nd, 1972

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 19,000 days old!

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What happened on February 2nd, 1972?

February 2nd, 1972

Protestors burned the British Embassy in Ireland following the massacre of 14 civilians in Derry by British forces.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_British_Embassy_in_Dublin

What else happened on February 2nd?

February 2nd, 1943

World War II: The Soviet Red Army captured 91,000 tired and starving German soldiers, ending the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in human history.

February 2nd, 2012

The passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen capsized and sank in rough conditions in the Solomon Sea, resulting in at least 88 deaths.

February 2nd, 2009

Omid, Iran's first domestically made satellite, was successfully launched from Semnan Space Center.

February 2nd, 2004

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer became the top-ranked men's singles player, a position he held for a record 237 consecutive weeks.

February 2nd, 1974

The F-16 Fighting Falcon (pictured), the most numerous fixed-wing aircraft currently in military service, made its first flight.

February 2nd, 1963

113 alleged communists were arrested and detained without trial by Singapore's security agencies.

February 2nd, 1942

The first act of the Norwegian resistance movement took place with the bombing of Oslo East Station by the Osvald Group to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.

February 2nd, 1934

The Export–Import Bank of the United States, the country's official export credit agency, was established.

February 2nd, 1920

The signing of the Treaty of Tartu ended the Estonian War of Independence, with Soviet Russia agreeing to recognize the country's independence and renounce in perpetuity all rights to its territory.

February 2nd, 1913

New York City's Grand Central Terminal, the world's largest train station by number of platforms, opened immediately after midnight.

February 2nd, 1850

Ute Wars: Brigham Young announced his decision to go to war against the Timpanogos, who were hostile to the Mormon settlement at Fort Utah.

February 2nd, 1709

Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued by English captain Woodes Rogers and his crew after spending four years as a castaway on an uninhabited island in the Pacific, providing the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

February 2nd, 1659

Jan van Riebeeck, the founder of Cape Town, produced the first bottle of South African wine (vineyard pictured).

February 2nd, 1207

Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, was established as a principality of the Holy Roman Empire.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 2nd

Born on February 2nd, 1972

52

Patrizio Prata

Italian voice actor

*February 2nd, 1972, Milan

52

Hendrick Ramaala

Athletics competitor

*February 2nd, 1972, Polokwane

52

Zoë Keating

Canadian avant-garde cellist and composer based in San Francisco

*February 2nd, 1972, Guelph

52

Parisa Bakhtavar

Iranian film and television director

*February 2nd, 1972, Tehran

52

Naheed Nenshi

Canadian politician; 36th mayor of Calgary, Alberta

*February 2nd, 1972, Toronto

52

Vidal Llerenas

Mexican politician

*February 2nd, 1972, Colima

52

Blaž Trupej

Slovenian tennis player

*February 2nd, 1972, Ljubljana

52

Hisashi

Musician

*February 2nd, 1972, Hirosaki

52

Aleksey Naumov

Russian footballer

*February 2nd, 1972, Saint Petersburg

52

Melvin Mora h

Venezuelan baseball player

*February 2nd, 1972, Yaracuy

52

Klára Dobrev

Hungarian politician

*February 2nd, 1972, Sofia

52

Todi Jónsson

Faroese footballer

*February 2nd, 1972, Vejle

52

T-Mo

American rapper

*February 2nd, 1972, Fairburn

52

Scott Sterling

Professional golfer

*February 2nd, 1972, Beaumont

52

Lance Brown

American football player

*February 2nd, 1972, Jacksonville

52

Kouji Shishido

Japanese professional wrestler

*February 2nd, 1972, Fukushima

52

Jarle Wee

Norwegian footballer

*February 2nd, 1972, Norway

52

Jared Fernández

American baseball player

*February 2nd, 1972, Salt Lake City

52

Ben Gruber

American screenwriter and producer

*February 2nd, 1972, Rosemont

52

Chad Weininger

American politician

*February 2nd, 1972, Green Bay

52

Syed Haroon Ahmed Sultan Bokhari

Politician

*February 2nd, 1972, Multan

52

Taras Chopik

Footballer

*February 2nd, 1972, Lviv

52

Aleksandar Vrhovac

Bosnian footballer

*February 2nd, 1972, Banja Luka

52

Oleg Belyakov

Footballer

*February 2nd, 1972, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic

52

Roberto Calcaterra

Italian water polo player

*February 2nd, 1972, Civitavecchia

52

Karim Fradin

Moroccan-French footballer

*February 2nd, 1972, Saint-Martin-d'Hères

52

José Ochoa

Venezuelan wrestler

*February 2nd, 1972, Valencia

52

Jota González

Spanish handball head coach

*February 2nd, 1972, Valladolid

52

Julio César Moreno Rivera

Mexican politician

*February 2nd, 1972, Mexico City

52

Hussam Al Sayed

Syrian football player and manager

*February 2nd, 1972, Damascus

52

Ryan Campbell

Australian cricketer (born 1972)

*February 2nd, 1972, Perth

52

Tanya Clarke

American actress

*February 2nd, 1972, Chicago

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51

Marissa Jaret Winokur

American actress

*February 2nd, 1973, New York City

47

Shakira

Colombian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 2nd, 1977, Barranquilla

54

Jennifer Westfeldt

American actress

*February 2nd, 1970, Guilford

51

Simone Warzel

German mathematician

*February 2nd, 1973, Erlangen

44

Lili Zhou

Badminton player

*February 2nd, 1980, Guangxi

49

Donald Driver

American football player (born 1975)

*February 2nd, 1975, Houston

64

Reinhard Häfner

German association football player and manager (1952–2016)

*February 2nd, 1952, Sonneberg †October 24th, 2016, Dresden

38

Gemma Arterton

British actress

*February 2nd, 1986, Gravesend

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

54

Anton Hofreiter

German politician

*February 2nd, 1970, Munich

28

Zhao Junpeng

Chinese badminton player

*February 2nd, 1996, Nanchang

46

Antje Nikola Mönning

German actress

*February 2nd, 1978, Münster

45

Sandy Casar

French cyclist

*February 2nd, 1979, Mantes-la-Jolie

58

James Joyce

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

*February 2nd, 1882, Rathgar †January 13th, 1941, Zürich

22

Magnus Johannesen

Danish badminton player

*February 2nd, 2002, Aalborg

77

Gerhard Winkler

Austrian classical philologist, historian and epigraphist (1935-2012)

*February 2nd, 1935, Vienna †November 19th, 2012, Linz

50

Ann Chiejine

Nigerian former football goalkeeper

*February 2nd, 1974, Nigeria

27

Stefan Gartenmann

Danish footballer

*February 2nd, 1997, Roskilde

37

Gerard Piqué

Spanish footballer (born 1987)

*February 2nd, 1987, Barcelona

62

Philippe Claudel

French film director, writer and screenwriter

*February 2nd, 1962, Dombasle-sur-Meurthe

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51

Stephen Barclay

British politician

*May 3rd, 1972, Lytham St Annes

51

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

47

Ari Behn

Norwegian author and artist (1972-2019)

*September 30th, 1972, Aarhus †December 25th, 2019, Lommedalen

52

Roland Møller

Danish actor

*March 20th, 1972, Odense

51

Bang Soo-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 13th, 1972, Seoul

52

Heryanto Arbi

Indonesian badminton player

*January 21st, 1972, Kota Kudus

51

Zinedine Zidane

French football manager and former player

*June 23rd, 1972, Marseille

51

Dwayne Johnson

American actor and professional wrestler

*May 2nd, 1972, Hayward

51

Joanne Goode

English badminton player

*November 17th, 1972, Harlow

51

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

52

Milaine Cloutier

Canadian badminton player

*February 16th, 1972, Granby

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

51

Chris Leslie

British politician (born 1972)

*June 28th, 1972, Keighley

51

Anniken Hauglie

Conservative Norwegian politician

*September 10th, 1972, Oslo

51

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer

*September 27th, 1972, Los Angeles

51

Steffen Wöller

German luger

*September 10th, 1972, Erfurt

51

Johann von Bülow

German actor

*September 26th, 1972, Munich

51

Jude Law

English actor

*December 29th, 1972, Lewisham

51

Josh Duhamel

American actor

*November 14th, 1972, Minot

52

Ong Ewe Hock

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1972, Penang

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 2nd

Fixed holidays (Christian Feast Day, Earliest day on which Shrove Monday can fall, while March 8 is the latest; celebrated on Monday before Ash Wednesday , Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple or Candlemas) which are celebrated on February 2nd.

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Born on February 2nd, 1972
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1972 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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