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What Happened on February 3rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2014	Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
2007	A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
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.
1995	Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1994	Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
1989	After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989	A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1984	Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984	Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1972	The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1971	New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
1966	The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
1961	The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1960	British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
1959	Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash along with the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa, an event later known as The Day the Music Died.
1958	Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1953	The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
1945	World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945	World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1944	World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1943	The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
1933	Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Nazi foreign policy.
1931	The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1930	Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
1927	A revolt against the military dictatorship of Portugal breaks out at Oporto.
1918	The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1917	World War I: The American entry into World War I begins when diplomatic relations with Germany are severed due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.
1916	The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of seven lives.
1913	The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1870	The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
1830	The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
1813	José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1809	The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
1807	A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
1787	Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
1783	Spain–United States relations are first established.
1781	American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
1716	The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an Mw  7.0 mainshock that caused severe damage and killed 20,000 in Algeria.
1706	During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1690	The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
1661	Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind.
1583	Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process.
1509	The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
1488	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.
1451	Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1112	Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.

Famous People Born on February 3

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Year	Name
1954	Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1912	Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (d. 1990)
1951	Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian footballer and manager
1777	John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author (d. 1836)
1918	Helen Stephens, American runner, baseball player, and manager (d. 1994)
1817	Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (d. 1881)
1979	Paul Franks, English cricketer and coach
1951	Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1909	Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1943)
1986	Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater

Famous People Deaths On February 3

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 3. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1468	Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher, invented the Printing press (b. 1398)
1922	Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
2017	Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1931)
1116	Coloman, king of Hungary
1866	François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
1969	C. N. Annadurai, Indian journalist and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State (b. 1909)
929	Guy, margrave of Tuscany
1985	Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
1961	William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Scottish-Australian captain and politician, 14th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1893)
1947	Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)