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)