SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Today is Saturday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2019. There are 332 days left in the year.

1714 — Nicholas Rowe’s “tragedy of Jane Shore” premieres in London

1795 — Joseph Haydn’s 102nd Symphony in B premieres

1811 — Russian settlers establish Fort Ross trading post, north of San Francisco

1823 — Rossini’s opera “Semiramide” premieres in Venice

1848 — First shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco

1878 — Greece declares war on Turkey

1906 — Pope encyclical against separation of church and state

1919 — Monarchist riot in Portugal

1931 — 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria)