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| February 3rd, 2008 (February 03 2008) | Death | Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (born in 1916) | |
| February 3rd, 1998 (February 03 1998) | Event | Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. | |
| February 3rd, 1998 (February 03 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| February 3rd, 1998 (February 03 1998) | Death | Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (born in 1959) | |
| February 3rd, 1988 (February 03 1988) | Event | Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan s request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| February 3rd, 1978 (February 03 1978) | Birth | Adrian R Mante, American actor | |
| February 3rd, 1978 (February 03 1978) | Birth | Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer | |
| February 3rd, 1968 (February 03 1968) | Birth | Vlade Divac, National Basketball Association player | |
| February 3rd, 1958 (February 03 1958) | Event | Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. | |
| February 3rd, 1958 (February 03 1958) | Birth | N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist | |
| February 3rd, 1948 (February 03 1948) | Birth | Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate | |
| February 3rd, 1948 (February 03 1948) | Birth | Henning Mankell, Swedish author | |
| February 3rd, 1938 (February 03 1938) | Birth | Victor Buono, American actor (died in 1982) | |
| February 3rd, 1938 (February 03 1938) | Birth | Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer | |
| February 3rd, 1918 (February 03 1918) | Event | The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long. | |
| February 3rd, 1918 (February 03 1918) | Birth | Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (died in 2007) | |
| February 3rd, 1918 (February 03 1918) | Birth | Helen Stephens, American runner (died in 1994) | |
| February 3rd, 1908 (February 03 1908) | Event | Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece. | |
| February 3rd, 1898 (February 03 1898) | Birth | Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (died in 1976) | |
| February 3rd, 1808 (February 03 1808) | Birth | Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar, Princess of Prussia (died in 1877) | |
| February 3rd, 1488 (February 03 1488) | Event | Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. | |
| February 3rd, 1468 (February 03 1468) | Death | Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher | |
| February 3rd, 1428 (February 03 1428) | Death | Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (born in 1386) | |
| February 3rd, 1338 (February 03 1338) | Birth | Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (died in 1378) | |
