Chicago Daily Tribune

ON FEBRUARY 2 ...

In 1536 the Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.

In 1895 George Halas, the founder, longtime owner and coach of the Chicago Bears, was born in Chicago.

In 1943 the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered in a major victory for the

Soviets in World War II.

In 1971 Idi Amin assumed power in Uganda, following a coup that ousted President Milton Obote.

In 1990 South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.

In 2008 a gunman killed five women at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, in an apparent botched robbery. (The case remains unsolved.)

In 2011 the Chicago region saw the end of a wicked, wailing blizzard — the third-worst in the city’s history — that began the previous night, buring the area under 20 inches of snow and blamed for at least a dozen deaths.

In 2013 former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who wrote the bestseller “American Sniper” detailing his 150plus kills of insurgents in Iraq from 1999 to 2009, was gunned down at a shooting range in Texas; he was 38.