Today in History.....February 2

On this day in …

* 1653, New Amsterdam -- now New York City -- was incorporated

* 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, was signed

* 1870, the "Cardiff Giant," supposedly the petrified remains of a human discovered in Cardiff, N.Y., was revealed to be nothing more than carved gypsum

* 1876, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was formed in New York

* 1945, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill departed Malta for the summit in Yalta with Soviet leader Josef Stalin

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

* 2000, former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said they would pay for $86,000 worth of White House gifts they chose to keep