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Events on the 3rd of February in history

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03 Feb 1112 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
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03 Feb 1377 Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term
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03 Feb 1377 Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
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03 Feb 1377 More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are killed by the Condottieri (papal armed forces) in the "Cesena Bloodbath".
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03 Feb 1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
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03 Feb 1488 Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros)
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1534 Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
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03 Feb 1547 Russian Czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
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03 Feb 1576 Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
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03 Feb 1591 German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
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03 Feb 1637 Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
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03 Feb 1653 Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
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03 Feb 1660 General Moncks army reaches London
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03 Feb 1690 1st paper money in America issued (Colony of Massachusetts)
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03 Feb 1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
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03 Feb 1706 During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
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03 Feb 1740 Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
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03 Feb 1743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
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03 Feb 1752 Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
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03 Feb 1781 Dutch West Indies island of St. Eustatia taken by British
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03 Feb 1781 American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
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03 Feb 1783 Spain recognizes US independence
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03 Feb 1783 American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
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03 Feb 1787 Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
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03 Feb 1807 A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
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03 Feb 1809 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
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03 Feb 1809 The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
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03 Feb 1813 José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
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03 Feb 1825 Dutch North Sea coast floods
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03 Feb 1825 Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide isthmus.
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1834 Wake Forest University is established.
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03 Feb 1836 Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
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03 Feb 1852 Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
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03 Feb 1855 Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
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03 Feb 1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
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03 Feb 1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse
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03 Feb 1867 Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
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03 Feb 1869 Booth theater at 23rd and 6th opens in NYC (Romeo and Juliet)
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03 Feb 1870 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
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03 Feb 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
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03 Feb 1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football
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03 Feb 1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
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03 Feb 1887 To avoid disputed National elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
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03 Feb 1892 Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
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03 Feb 1894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched in Bath, Maine
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03 Feb 1895 Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 seconds)
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03 Feb 1897 The Greco-Turkish War breaks out.
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03 Feb 1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Baltimore
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03 Feb 1900 Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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03 Feb 1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
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03 Feb 1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
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03 Feb 1908 The Panathinaikos athletic club is created
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03 Feb 1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
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03 Feb 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
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03 Feb 1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal
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03 Feb 1916 Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
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03 Feb 1916 Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
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03 Feb 1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1919 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
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03 Feb 1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
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03 Feb 1927 Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
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03 Feb 1929 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
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03 Feb 1930 Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
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03 Feb 1930 William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
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03 Feb 1930 Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
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03 Feb 1931 Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia"
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03 Feb 1931 The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
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03 Feb 1933 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
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03 Feb 1933 Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
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03 Feb 1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and maximum hours
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03 Feb 1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
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03 Feb 1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
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03 Feb 1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
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03 Feb 1943 The SS 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.
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
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03 Feb 1945 World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
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03 Feb 1947 The lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
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03 Feb 1948 Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
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03 Feb 1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
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03 Feb 1951 "Victor Borge Show, " debuts on NBC TV
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03 Feb 1951 Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
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03 Feb 1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
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03 Feb 1954 Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
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03 Feb 1956 Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2 / 7 after a riot
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03 Feb 1956 Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
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03 Feb 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
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03 Feb 1957 Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
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03 Feb 1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
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03 Feb 1959 Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
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03 Feb 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", an increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
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03 Feb 1961 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1962 John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
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03 Feb 1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs
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03 Feb 1964 "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
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03 Feb 1964 Black and Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
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03 Feb 1965 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
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03 Feb 1965 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
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03 Feb 1965 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
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03 Feb 1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552 / 636 km)
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03 Feb 1966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
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03 Feb 1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
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03 Feb 1966 The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
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03 Feb 1967 "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
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03 Feb 1967 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
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03 Feb 1969 The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
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03 Feb 1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
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03 Feb 1971 KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1972 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
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03 Feb 1974 "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
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03 Feb 1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
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03 Feb 1976 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
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03 Feb 1977 Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
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03 Feb 1978 Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
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03 Feb 1978 India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
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03 Feb 1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
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03 Feb 1979 Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
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03 Feb 1979 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
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03 Feb 1979 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
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03 Feb 1980 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
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03 Feb 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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03 Feb 1981 Australia beats New Zealand 3-1 to win World Series Cup
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03 Feb 1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected Premier of Norway
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03 Feb 1982 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
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03 Feb 1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
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03 Feb 1982 John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
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03 Feb 1982 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
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03 Feb 1983 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
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03 Feb 1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B) - Challenger 4 launched
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03 Feb 1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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03 Feb 1986 President Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
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03 Feb 1987 Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
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03 Feb 1989 Bill White named NL President; 1st black major-league sports head
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03 Feb 1989 A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1990 Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
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03 Feb 1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
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03 Feb 1990 New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center
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03 Feb 1991 Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
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03 Feb 1991 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
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03 Feb 1992 Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs"
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03 Feb 1992 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
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03 Feb 1992 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
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03 Feb 1993 Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
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03 Feb 1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California
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03 Feb 1994 "Les Miserables, " opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
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03 Feb 1994 Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
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03 Feb 1994 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
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03 Feb 1995 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca, New York
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03 Feb 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
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03 Feb 1998 Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
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03 Feb 1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
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03 Feb 1998 New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
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03 Feb 1998 Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
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03 Feb 1998 US military plane clips cable car lines in Northern Italy, kills 20
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03 Feb 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.
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03 Feb 1998 Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas, becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
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03 Feb 2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
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03 Feb 2014 Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
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03 Feb 2015 A collision between a commuter train and a passenger vehicle kills six in Valhalla, New York.
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