Once Upon A Time – February 2 – 1892 – Longest Boxing Match Under Modern Rules; 77 Rounds Between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby

1653 New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)

1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican–American War: US acquires Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million

1901 Queen Victoria’s funeral takes place in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England

1922 James Joyce’s “Ulysses” first published by Sylvia Beach in Paris (1,000 copies)

1943 German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad in a major turning point in Europe during World War II

1971 Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote and appoints himself President (dictator) of Uganda

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Today In Film & TV

1974 Barbra Streisand’s 1st #1 hit, “The Way We Were”

Today In Sport

2014 Super Bowl XLVIII, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ: Seattle Seahawks beat Denver Broncos, 42-8; MVP: Malcolm Smith, Seattle, LB

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1935 Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings in Portage, Wisconsin

1892 Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby

Famous Weddings

1387 King John I of Portugal (29) marries Philippa of Lancaster (26), daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, in Porto, consolidating an Anglo-Portuguese Alliance that endures to the present day

1870 American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY

1904 US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey