Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for February 3, 2022

Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• 1377: Soldiers under the command of Robert, Cardinal of Geneva, acting as the legate of Pope Gregory XI carried out the mass execution of the population of Cesena, Italy, killing between 2500 and 5000 people
• 1740: Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invited Jews to return to Sicily
• 1743: Philadelphia established a “pesthouse” to quarantine immigrants
• 1752: The Dutch States-General forbade the export of windmills
• 1825: The Dutch North Sea coast experienced significant flooding
• 1836: The Whig Party held its first national convention in Albany, New York
• 1892: Russia closed down the Volozhin Yeshiva, a Lithuanian Talmudic College
• 1908: The US Supreme Court ruled a union boycott violated the Sherman Antitrust Act
• 1913: The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution, allowing a federal income tax was ratified
• 1917: US President Woodrow Wilson broke off diplomatic relations with Germany
• 1929: The Revolutionary Socialist Party formed in Amsterdam
• 1930: The Indochinese Communist Party of Vietnam was established
• 1931: New Zealand experienced the Hawke’s Bay earthquake, which killed 256 people and injures thousands, while devastating Napier and the Hawke’s Bay region
• 1933: German Minister Hermann Goering banned the Social-Democratic newspaper Vorwarts
• 1941: The US Supreme Court upheld the Federal Wage and Hour law setting minimum wages and maximum hours
• 1962: US President John F. Kennedy banned all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs
• 1971: A series of house searches by the British Army in Catholic areas of Belfast resulted in serious rioting and gun battles
• 1971: OPEC mandated a “total embargo” against any company that rejected a 55 percent tax rate
• 1993: The Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in the videotaped beating of Rodney King began in Los Angeles, California
• 1994: US President Bill Clinton lifted the US trade embargo against Vietnam
• 1999: In Jammu and Kashmir, the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) was revived
• 2018: Moscow had its heaviest snowfall in a day on record, killing one person and bringing down 2,000 trees
• 2019: A dam in Townsville, Australia was deliberately opened flooding 20,000 homes after the city received a record 3.3 feet of rain in a week
• 2021: US and Russia extended their New START nuclear arms control treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms deal between the two countries, for five years
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including February 3, 2022

• African Heritage & Health Week (February 1-7)
• World Interfaith Harmony Week (February 1-7)
  
  

February Monthly Holidays and Observances

• African American History Month/National Black History Month
• American Heart Month/National Heart Healthy Month
• Canned Food Month
• Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month
• International Boost Self Esteem Month
• International Expect Success Month
• Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
• National Cancer Prevention Month
• National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
• National Time Management Month
• Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month
• Spiritual Teachers Month
• Relationship Wellness Month