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is the 34th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 331 days remaining (332 in
leap years).
In the
Northern hemisphere, there are 88 days in
winter (in a non-leap year, 89 in a leap year). We are considered halfway through winter on .
Events
*
1112 - marriage of
Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and
Douce I of Provence, uniting the fortunes of those two states
*
1377 - more than 2,000 people of the
Italian city of
Cesena are slaughtered by
Papal Troops (
Cesena Bloodbath).
*
1451 -
Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the
Ottoman Empire.
*
1488 -
Bartolomeu Dias of
Portugal lands in
Mossel Bay after rounding the
Cape of Good Hope at the tip of
Africa, becoming the first known
European to travel this far south.
*
1509 - The
Battle of Diu, between
Portugal and the
Ottoman Empire takes place in
Diu,
India.
*
1690 - The colony of
Massachusetts issues the first
paper money in
America.
*
1783 -
American Revolutionary War:
Spain recognizes
United States independence.
*
1787 -
Shays' Rebellion is crushed, ending an uprising that would prompt negotiations that would result in the drafting of the
Constitution of the United States.
*
1809 -
Illinois Territory is created.
*
1815 - The first commercial
cheese factory is founded (
Switzerland).
*
1834 - The
Baptist State Convention of North Carolina establishes the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, today known as
Wake Forest University.
*
1867 -
Prince Mutsuhito becomes
Emperor Meiji of Japan.
*
1870 - The
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, grants voting rights regardless of race.
*
1900 - Gubernatorial candidate
William Goebel is assassinated in
Frankfort, Kentucky. Former
Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.
*
1913 - The
Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, authorizing the
Federal government to impose and collect
income tax.
*
1916 -
Parliament buildings in
Ottawa,
Canada burn down.
*
1917 -
World War I: The
United States breaks off diplomatic relations with
Germany a day after
Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted
submarine warfare.
*
1918 - The
Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest
streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long).
*
1931 - The
Napier earthquake,
New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
*
1941 -
World War II: The
Nazis forcibly restore
Pierre Laval to office in occupied
Vichy,
France.
*
1944 - World War II:
United States troops capture the
Marshall Islands.
*
1945 - World War II:
Soviet Union agrees to enter the
Pacific Theatre conflict against
Japan.
*
1947 -
Percival Prattis becomes the first
African American news correspondent allowed in the
United States House and
Senate press gallery.
* 1947 - Coldest ever temperature recorded in North America at
Snag, Yukon, -63 degrees
Celsius*
1952 - The earliest known
tropical storm makes landfall in
South Florida.
*
1957 -
Senegalese
political party Democratic Rally merges into the
Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
*
1959 -
The Day The Music Died: A
plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers
Buddy Holly,
Ritchie Valens, and
The Big Bopper.
*
1966 - The unmanned
Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the
Moon.
*
1967 -
Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in
Australia, is hanged in
Pentridge Prison,
Melbourne.
*
1969 - In
Cairo,
Yasser Arafat is appointed
Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the
Palestinian National Congress.
*
1984 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts,
Bruce McCandless II and
Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the
Manned Maneuvering Unit.
*
1988 -
Iran-Contra Affair: The
United States House of Representatives rejects
President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid
Nicaraguan
Contras.
*
1989 - After a
stroke,
P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of
South Africa.
* 1989 - A military coup overthrows
Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of
Paraguay since
1954.
*
1997 - Sixth
general elections held in
Pakistan under
1973 constitution.
*
1998 -
Karla Faye Tucker is executed in
Texas becoming the first woman executed in the
United States since
1984.
* 1998 -
Cavalese cable-car disaster: a
United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near
Trento,
Italy.
*
1999 - In
Jammu and Kashmir the
political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
*
2004 -
Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the
Faroe Islands.
Births
*
1338 -
Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of
Charles V of France (d.
1378)
*
1677 -
Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d.
1723)
*
1690 -
Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (d.
1755)
*
1721 -
Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d.
1773)
*
1747 -
Samuel Osgood American Patriot
*
1754 -
George Crabbe, English poet and naturalist (d.
1832)
*
1795 -
Antonio José de Sucre,
South Américan independence hero and Great Marshall of
Ayacucho (d.
1830)
*
1809 -
Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d.
1847)
*
1811 -
Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d.
1872)
*
1817 -
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d.
1881)
*
1821 -
Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d.
1910)
*
1830 -
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1903)
*
1842 -
Sidney Lanier, American writer (d.
1881)
*
1859 -
Hugo Junkers, German industrialist and aircraft designer (d.
1935)
*
1862 -
James Clark McReynolds, American politician, 49th
United States Attorney General &
U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.
1946)
*
1872 -
Lou Criger, baseball player (d.
1934)
*
1874 -
Gertrude Stein, American writer and patron of the arts (d.
1946)
*
1887 -
Juan Negrín, Spanish
Popular Front politician and Prime Minister (d.
1956)
* 1887 -
Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d.
1914)
*
1893 -
Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d.
1978)
*
1894 -
Norman Rockwell, American artist, illustrator (d.
1978)
*
1898 -
Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d.
1976)
*
1899 -
Lao She, Chinese writer (d.
1966)
*
1904 -
Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d.
1975)
* 1904 -
Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d.
1934)
*
1907 -
James Michener, American author (d.
1997)
*
1909 -
Simone Weil, French philosopher (d.
1943)
*
1911 -
Robert Earl Jones, American actor
*
1918 -
Joey Bishop, American comedian and actor
* 1918 -
Helen Stephens, American runner
*
1920 -
Henry Heimlich, American physician
*
1925 -
John Fiedler, American voice actor (d.
2005)
* 1925 -
Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist
* 1925 -
Leon Schlumpf, member of the
Swiss Federal Council*
1926 -
Shelley Berman, American comedian
* 1926 -
Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician
*
1927 -
Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
*
1930 -
Gillian Ayres, English painter
*
1932 -
Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d.
1984)
*
1933 -
Paul Sarbanes, American politician,
United States Senator from Maryland*
1938 -
Victor Buono, American actor (d.
1982)
*
1939 -
Michael Cimino, American film director
*
1940 -
Fran Tarkenton, American football player
*
1941 -
Neil Bogart, music company executive (d.
1982)
*
1943 -
Blythe Danner, American actress
* 1943 -
Dennis Edwards, American singer (
The Temptations)
*
1945 -
Bob Griese, American football player
*
1947 -
Paul Auster, American novelist
* 1947 -
Dave Davies, British musician (
The Kinks)
* 1947 -
Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter
*
1948 -
Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate* 1948 -
Henning Mankell, Swedish author
*
1949 -
Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist, 1975 World Champion
*
1950 -
Morgan Fairchild, American actress
*
1952 -
Fred Lynn, baseball player
*
1954 -
Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey players
*
1955 -
Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
* 1955 -
Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
*
1956 -
John Jefferson, American football player
* 1956 -
Nathan Lane, American actor
* 1956 -
Lee Ranaldo, American musician (
Sonic Youth)
*
1958 -
N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
*
1959 -
Thomas Calabro, American actor
* 1959 -
Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (
The Cure)
* 1959 -
Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician, composer and DJ (
Pizzicato Five)
*
1960 -
Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d.
1993)
*
1961 -
Keith Gordon, American actor and director
*
1965 -
Maura Tierney, American actress
*
1967 -
Bob Taylor, English footballer
*
1970 -
Warwick Davis, British actor
*
1971 -
Sarah Kane, English playwright (d.
1999)
* 1971 -
Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean television and film actor
*
1972 -
Mart Poom, Estonian football player
*
1974 -
Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
* 1974 -
Elisa Donovan, American actress
*
1976 -
Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian hockey player
* 1976 -
Isla Fisher, Australian actress
* 1976 -
Dwayne Rudd, American football player
*
1977 -
Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican reggaeton artist
*
1978 -
Adrian R'Mante, American actor
*
1980 -
Sarah Lewitinn, American writer and
disc jockey*
1981 -
Maurice Ross, English footballer
*
1982 -
Jessica Harp, American
Country Music singer, member of
The WreckersDeaths
*
619 -
Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd
Archbishop of Canterbury*
699 - Saint
Werburgh*
1014 - King
Sweyn I of Denmark*
1116 - King
Coloman of Hungary (b.
1070)
*
1399 -
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b.
1340)
*
1428 -
Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b.
1386)
*
1451 -
Murad II,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1404)
*
1468 -
Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
*
1566 -
George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b.
1513)
*
1619 -
Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b.
1564)
*
1737 -
Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b.
1648)
*
1802 -
Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (b.
1723)
*
1862 -
Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b.
1774)
*
1889 -
Belle Starr, American outlaw (b.
1848)
*
1922 -
John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b.
1839)
*
1924 -
Woodrow Wilson, 28th
President of the United States,
Nobel Prize Laureate (b.
1856)
*
1929 -
Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b.
1878*
1935 -
Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b.
1859)
*
1945 -
Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b.
1893)
*
1956 -
Émile Borel, French mathematician, politician, statesman, and resistance figher (b.
1871)
*
1959 - Also known as
The Day the Music Died because of the deaths of:
**
Buddy Holly, American singer (b.
1936)
**
Ritchie Valens, American singer (b.
1941)
**
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b.
1930)
*
1960 -
Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b.
1921)
*
1964 - Sir
Albert Richardson, English architect (b.
1880)
*
1967 -
Joe Meek, English record producer (b.
1929)
*
1975 -
Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b.
1904)
*
1985 -
Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b.
1912)
*
1989 -
John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and writer (b.
1929)
*
1991 -
Nancy Kulp, American actress (b.
1921)
*
1996 -
Audrey Meadows, American actress (b.
1926)
*
1998 -
Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b.
1959)
*
2000 -
Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b.
1923)
*
2003 -
Lana Clarkson, American actress (murdered) (b.
1962)
* 2003 -
Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b.
1926)
*
2004 -
Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b.
1975)
*
2005 -
Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1903)
* 2005 -
Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b.
1904)
* 2005 -
Zurab Zhvania,
Prime Minister of Georgia (b.
1963)
*
2006 -
Al Lewis, American actor (b.
1923)
Holidays and observances
*
Japan - the festival of
Setsubun before spring.
*
Mozambique -
Heroes' Day.
*
United States -
Four Chaplains Day.
liturgical feasts
*
Saint Blaise,
Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
*
Saint Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark
*
Saint Hadelin*
Saint Werburgh*
Saint Berlindis*
Saint Celsa*
Saint NonaExternal links
*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/3 BBC: On This Day*
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20060203.html NY Times: On this day*
http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Feb&day=03 On This Day in Canada----
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