1837 - Chicago is incorporated as a city.
1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1882 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
1887 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
1890 - The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) in length, is opened.
2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
2007 - Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526[1] - 2 February 1594)
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741) --- Guitar Concerto in D - II - Boris Björn Bagger ***YouTube***
Alexander Stepanovich Popov (March 16 [O.S. March 4] 1859 – January 13 [O.S. December 31, 1905] 1906)