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February 2

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Observed on February 2, 2026
  • Tu BiShvatJewish

    Tu BiShvat, the “new year of the trees,” marked with fruit and, today, tree-planting.

  1. 1993 CEMesopotamian · died

    Jørgen Læssøe, the Danish Assyriologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, died at the age of 68.

  2. 2010 CEMesopotamian · died

    Donald John Wiseman, a British Assyriologist and Professor of Assyriology at the University of London, died at the age of 91.

  3. 1970 CEScience · died

    Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and logician who co-authored Principia Mathematica, died in Wales at ninety-seven, having profoundly shaped modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.

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