February 3rd Events |
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| February 3rd, 2007 (February 03 2007) | Event | A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. | |
| February 3rd, 1999 (February 03 1999) | Event | In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived. | |
| 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, 1991 (February 03 1991) | Event | The Italian Communist Party dissolves and splits into the Democratic Party of the Left and the Communist Refoundation Party. | |
| February 3rd, 1989 (February 03 1989) | Event | After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa. | |
| February 3rd, 1989 (February 03 1989) | Event | A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. | |
| 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, 1984 (February 03 1984) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B MissionAstronauts, Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit. | |
| February 3rd, 1971 (February 03 1971) | Event | New York Police Office Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.. Many believed the incident proved NYPD officers tried to kill him. | |
| February 3rd, 1969 (February 03 1969) | Event | In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress. | Yasser Arafat Quotes |
| February 3rd, 1967 (February 03 1967) | Event | Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. | |
| February 3rd, 1966 (February 03 1966) | Event | The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. | |
| February 3rd, 1959 (February 03 1959) | Event | A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper, also known as The Day the Music Died. | |
| 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, 1957 (February 03 1957) | Event | Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). | |
| February 3rd, 1947 (February 03 1947) | Event | The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon. | |
| February 3rd, 1945 (February 03 1945) | Event | World War II: The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan. | |
| February 3rd, 1945 (February 03 1945) | Event | World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17 s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin. | |
| February 3rd, 1944 (February 03 1944) | Event | World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands. | |
| February 3rd, 1941 (February 03 1941) | Event | World War II: Nazi Germany forcibly restores Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France. | |
| February 3rd, 1931 (February 03 1931) | Event | The Hawke s Bay earthquake, New Zealand s worst natural disaster, kills 258. | |
| February 3rd, 1930 (February 03 1930) | Event | The Communist Party of Vietnam is established. | |
| February 3rd, 1923 (February 03 1923) | Event | The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University. | |
| 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, 1917 (February 03 1917) | Event | World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the former announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. | |
| February 3rd, 1916 (February 03 1916) | Event | Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down. | |
| February 3rd, 1913 (February 03 1913) | Event | The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax. | |
| February 3rd, 1908 (February 03 1908) | Event | Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece. | |
| February 3rd, 1900 (February 03 1900) | Event | Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky. | |
| February 3rd, 1870 (February 03 1870) | Event | The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of race. | |
| February 3rd, 1867 (February 03 1867) | Event | Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan. | |
| February 3rd, 1834 (February 03 1834) | Event | Wake Forest University is established. | |
| February 3rd, 1830 (February 03 1830) | Event | The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol. | |
| February 3rd, 1809 (February 03 1809) | Event | The Illinois Territory is created. | |
| February 3rd, 1807 (February 03 1807) | Event | A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay. | |
| February 3rd, 1787 (February 03 1787) | Event | Shays Rebellion is crushed. | |
| February 3rd, 1783 (February 03 1783) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. | |
| February 3rd, 1706 (February 03 1706) | Event | During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment. | |
| February 3rd, 1690 (February 03 1690) | Event | The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America. | |
| February 3rd, 1509 (February 03 1509) | Event | The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India. | |
| 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, 1451 (February 03 1451) | Event | Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| February 3rd, 1377 (February 03 1377) | Event | more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath). | |
| February 3rd, 1112 (February 03 1112) | Event | Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. | |
