On This Day - February 2, 2026

The United States and Mexico sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty defined the boundary between the two countries as the Rio Grande River.

Using Thomas Edison's kinetoscope, William K.L. Dickson filmed Fred Ott as he sneezed at Edison's Black Maria Studio. Named "Record of a Sneeze," it consisted of 45 frames and is the first film recorded in the studio. It is registered as a photograph but not as a film because the category did not exist at the time.

Considered one of the film world's first stuntmen, Frederick R. Law parachuted from the torch of the Statue of Liberty and landed 30 feet from the bay. This wasn't his first parachute jump nor would it be his last.

Sylvia Beach publishes the complete novel Ulysses by James Joyce.

After a week of mushing 625 miles of brutal conditions, 20 drivers and their dogs safely relay a delivery of 300,000 doses of Diptheria serum to Nome, Alaska. February 2nd Celebrated History