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What happend on 3. February in History
In our data base we found 333 events happened on 3. February:
• 619: Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury [category: Deaths]
• 699: Saint Werburgh [category: Deaths]
• 995: William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937) [category: Births]
• 1014: Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, England and Norway (b. c. 960) [category: Deaths]
• 1112: Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. [category: Events]
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• 1116: King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070) [category: Deaths]
• 1338: Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378) [category: Births]
• 1377: More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath). [category: Events]
• 1399: John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340) [category: Deaths]
• 1428: Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386) [category: Deaths]
• 1451: Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404) [category: Deaths]
• 1451: Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. [category: Events]
• 1468: Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher (b. c. 1398) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1509: The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India. [category: Events]
• 1534: The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England. [category: Events]
• 1549: Sri Suriyothai, Chief Queen of Ayutthaya [category: Deaths]
• 1566: George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513) [category: Deaths]
• 1619: Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564) [category: Deaths]
• 1637: Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts. [category: Events]
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• 1654: Pietro Antonio Fiocco, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1714) [category: Births]
• 1677: Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723) [category: Births]
• 1689: Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (d. 1741) [category: Births]
• 1690: Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755) [category: Births]
• 1690: The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America. [category: Events]
• 1706: During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment. [category: Events]
• 1721: Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773) [category: Births]
• 1736: Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian musician (d. 1809) [category: Births]
• 1737: Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician (b. 1648) [category: Deaths]
• 1747: Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1757: Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist (d. 1833) [category: Births]
• 1777: John Cheyne, British physician, surgeon and author (d. 1836) [category: Births]
• 1781: American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius. [category: Events]
• 1783: American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence. [category: Events]
• 1787: Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts. [category: Events]
• 1795: Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830) [category: Births]
• 1802: Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1807: Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891) [category: Births]
• 1807: A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay. [category: Events]
• 1808: Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess of Prussia (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1809: Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847) [category: Births]
• 1809: The Illinois Territory is created. [category: Events]
• 1811: Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872) [category: Births]
• 1813: José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence. [category: Events]
• 1817: Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1820: Emperor Gia Long the founded the Nguyễn Dynasty, the last of the Vietnamese dynasties (b. 1762) [category: Deaths]
• 1821: Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1824: Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1826: Walter Bagehot, English essayist, journalist and businessman (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1830: Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1830: The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol. [category: Events]
• 1832: George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754) [category: Deaths]
• 1834: Wake Forest University is established. [category: Events]
• 1842: Sidney Lanier, American musician and poet. (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1843: William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1852: Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros. [category: Events]
• 1857: Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1859: Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1862: James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1862: Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774) [category: Deaths]
• 1866: François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race. [category: Events]
• 1871: Jean-Baptiste Mimiague, French fencer (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1872: Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1873: Isaac Baker Brown, English gynaecologist and surgeon (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1874: Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet and art collector (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1874: King William Charles Lunalilo of Hawaiʻi (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: William Tedmarsh, English-born American silent movie actor (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1887: Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1889: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1889: Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1892: Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1893: Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1894: Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1898: Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1899: Doris Speed, English actress (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1899: João Café Filho, Brazilian president (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1899: Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1900: Mabel Mercer, English born cabaret singer (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1900: Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky. [category: Events]
• 1903: Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish aviator (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1903: Joe Stripp, American baseball player (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1904: Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1904: Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1905: Arne Beurling, Swedish/American mathematician (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1907: James Michener, American author (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1909: André Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1909: Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1911: Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1911: Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1912: Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1912: Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1913: Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1913: The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax. [category: Events]
• 1916: Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down. [category: Events]
• 1917: World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. [category: Events]
• 1918: Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1918: Joey Bishop, American entertainer, member of the Rat Pack (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1918: Shlomo Goren, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1920: Henry Heimlich, American physician [category: Births]
• 1920: Russell Arms, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1920: Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1922: John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Alys Robi, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 1924: E. P. Thompson, English socialist historian, (The Making of the English Working Class) (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1924: Martial Asselin, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1924: Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: John Fiedler, American voice actor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1925: Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist [category: Births]
• 1925: Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council [category: Births]
• 1926: Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician [category: Births]
• 1926: Shelley Berman, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1927: Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1927: Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1927: Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker [category: Births]
• 1927: Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer [category: Births]
• 1928: Frankie Vaughan, English singer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1928: Ingemar Haraldsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1929: Ken Shipp, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1929: Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Gillian Ayres, English painter [category: Births]
• 1931: The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258. [category: Events]
• 1932: Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1933: Paul Sarbanes, American politician [category: Births]
• 1933: Polde Bibič, Slovenian actor and writer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1933: Than Shwe, Burmese military ruler [category: Births]
• 1934: Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentine actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American singer and guitarist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1935: Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Jim Marshall, American photographer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1936: Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Billy Meier, Swiss ufologist [category: Births]
• 1937: Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands boxer [category: Births]
• 1938: Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1939: Michael Cimino, American film director [category: Births]
• 1940: Angelo D'Aleo, American singer (Dion and the Belmonts) [category: Births]
• 1940: Fran Tarkenton, American football player [category: Births]
• 1941: Bridget Hanley, American actress [category: Births]
• 1941: Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1941: Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1943: Blythe Danner, American actress [category: Births]
• 1943: Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations) [category: Births]
• 1943: Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1943: The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story. [category: Events]
• 1944: Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1945: Bob Griese, American football player [category: Births]
• 1945: Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1945: Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 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 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. [category: Events]
• 1947: Dave Davies, English musician (The Kinks) [category: Births]
• 1947: Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1947: Paul Auster, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1947: Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon. [category: Events]
• 1948: Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese politician, Nobel Peace laureate [category: Births]
• 1948: Henning Mankell, Swedish author [category: Births]
• 1948: Jim Lockhart, Irish musician (Horslips) [category: Births]
• 1949: Arthur Kane, American musician (New York Dolls) (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1949: Donald Palma, American musician [category: Births]
• 1949: Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist [category: Births]
• 1950: Morgan Fairchild, American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Pamela Franklin, British actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Sid Field, English Comedian and Actor (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager [category: Births]
• 1952: Fred Lynn, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1952: Harold L. Ickes, American administrator and politician (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1955: Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist [category: Births]
• 1955: Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1955: Vasili Blokhin, Soviet Union executioner (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: John Jefferson, American football player [category: Births]
• 1956: Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth) [category: Births]
• 1956: Nathan Lane, American actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Chico Serra, Brazilian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1957: Steven Stapleton, English musician (Nurse With Wound) [category: Births]
• 1957: Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). [category: Events]
• 1958: Joe F. Edwards, Jr., American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1958: N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist [category: Births]
• 1958: Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community. [category: Events]
• 1959: Ferzan Özpetek, Turkish film director [category: Births]
• 1959: Lol Tolhurst, English musician (The Cure) [category: Births]
• 1959: Thomas Calabro, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five) [category: Births]
• 1959: Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Roger Peterson, pilot (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: The Day the Music Died [category: Deaths]
• 1959: A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson in an incident that becomes known as The Day the Music Died. [category: Events]
• 1960: Joachim Löw, German football manager [category: Births]
• 1960: Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1960: Tim Chandler, American bass guitar player (Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies) [category: Births]
• 1960: Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation. [category: Events]
• 1961: Jay Adams, American skateboarder [category: Births]
• 1961: Keith Gordon, American actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Linda Eder, American singer [category: Births]
• 1961: Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Viscount Dunrossil, Australian governor-general (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars. [category: Events]
• 1961: US 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 US' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post. [category: Events]
• 1962: Marty Jannetty, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1962: Michele Greene, American actress [category: Births]
• 1963: Raghuram Rajan, American economist [category: Births]
• 1964: Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician [category: Births]
• 1965: Kathleen Kinmont, American actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Maura Tierney, American actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Frank Coraci, American film director [category: Births]
• 1966: Kostas Patavoukas, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1966: The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1967: Bob Taylor, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Dave Benson Phillips, English children's TV presenter [category: Births]
• 1967: Mixu Paatelainen, Finnish footballer and coach [category: Births]
• 1967: Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. [category: Events]
• 1968: Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Retief Goosen, South African golfer [category: Births]
• 1969: Robert Pack, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress. [category: Events]
• 1970: Warwick Davis, English actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Óscar Córdoba, Colombian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Christian Liljegren, Swedish singer-songwriter (Narnia, Audiovision, and Divinefire) [category: Births]
• 1971: Elisa Donovan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Rockwilder, American producer [category: Births]
• 1971: Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1971: Sean Dawkins, American football player [category: Births]
• 1971: Vincent Elbaz, French actor [category: Births]
• 1971: New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him. [category: Events]
• 1972: Jesper Kyd, Danish composer [category: Births]
• 1972: Mart Poom, Estonian footballer [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1973: Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist [category: Births]
• 1974: Julie Meadows, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Konrad Gałka, Polish swimmer [category: Births]
• 1974: Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Brad Thorn, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1975: Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Dwayne Rudd, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Isla Fisher, Scottish-Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Tim Heidecker, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1977: Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer and rapper [category: Births]
• 1977: Marek Zidlicky, Czeck ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Adrian R'Mante, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1978: Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Becca Fitzpatrick, American author [category: Births]
• 1980: Kim E-Z, former member of the Korean girl group, Baby V.O.X. [category: Births]
• 1980: Sarah Lewitinn, American writer [category: Births]
• 1981: Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver [category: Births]
• 1982: Bridget Regan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers) [category: Births]
• 1982: Marie-Eve Drolet, Canadian short track speed skater [category: Births]
• 1983: Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster [category: Births]
• 1983: Richard Bartel, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Silambarasan Rajendar, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Sara Carbonero, Spanish TV presenter and journalist [category: Births]
• 1984: John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. [category: Events]
• 1984: Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. [category: Events]
• 1985: Andrei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1985: Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Lucas Duda, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater [category: Births]
• 1986: Rebel Wilson, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Angela Fong, Canadian wrestler, model, cheerleader [category: Births]
• 1987: Jung Ayul, South Korean actress (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1988: Gregory van der Wiel, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Kyuhyun, South Korean singer (Super Junior) [category: Births]
• 1988: Nicola Redomi, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Julio Jones, American Football player [category: Births]
• 1989: Ryne Sanborn, American actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. [category: Events]
• 1989: After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months. [category: Events]
• 1990: Sean Kingston, Jamaican-American singer [category: Births]
• 1990: Sterling Moore, American football player [category: Births]
• 1991: Glenn McCuen, American actor and model [category: Births]
• 1991: Nikola Hofmanova, Austrian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1991: Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Getter Jaani, Estonian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1993: Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1996: Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Fat Pat, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1998: Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. [category: Events]
• 2002: Lucien Rivard, Quebec criminal (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Jason Raize, American actor (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. [category: Events]
• 2009: Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Dick McGuire American basketball player (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Regina, Crown Princess of Austria (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Ron Piché, Canadian baseball player (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities. [category: Events]
• 2012: Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• _: Aaron the Illustrious (Syriac Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ansgar [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Berlinda of Meerbeke [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Blaise [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Celsa and Nona [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Shrove Tuesday can fall, while March 9 is the latest; celebrated on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Four Chaplains Day (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hadelin [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Heroes' Day (Mozambique) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Margaret of England [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Martyrs' Day (São Tomé and Príncipe) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Setsubun (Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Veterans' Day (Thailand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Werburgh [category: Holidays and observances]