Image by Getty Images via @daylifeFEBRUARY 2
1943:Two days after German Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus surrendered, the remaining German forces cease fighting around the Soviet city of Stalingrad; 91,000 Germans are taken prisoner. The German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad is a major turning point in World War II that costs both sides a combined 2 million casualties.
1848: American diplomat Nicholas Trist and Mexican peace commissioners Luis Cuevas, Bernardo Couto and Miguel Atristain sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican-American War. The treaty grants the United States more than 525,000 square miles of former Mexican territory that includes present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, most of New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Wyoming, in exchange for $15 million.
1887: Members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club in Punxsutawney, Pa., declare that a groundhog named Phil has the ability to predict the weather, deciding whether there will be an early spring or six more weeks of winter. Every Groundhog Day following, Phil and his successors will forecast on Feb. 2 at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney.
1848: American diplomat Nicholas Trist and Mexican peace commissioners Luis Cuevas, Bernardo Couto and Miguel Atristain sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican-American War. The treaty grants the United States more than 525,000 square miles of former Mexican territory that includes present-day California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, most of New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Wyoming, in exchange for $15 million.
1887: Members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club in Punxsutawney, Pa., declare that a groundhog named Phil has the ability to predict the weather, deciding whether there will be an early spring or six more weeks of winter. Every Groundhog Day following, Phil and his successors will forecast on Feb. 2 at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney.
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