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03 Feb 1377
Mass execution of population (between 2500 and 5000) of Cesena Italy by Breton troops of Giovanni Acuto under the command of Robert Cardinal of Geneva acting as the legate of Pope Gregory XI
03 Feb 1451
Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire
03 Feb 1509
The Battle of Diu naval battle at port of Diu India between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire establishes Portugese trading control
03 Feb 1591
German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
03 Feb 1740
Charles de Bourbon King of Naples invites Jews to return to Sicily
03 Feb 1743
Philadelphia establishes a pesthouse to quarantine immigrants
03 Feb 1830
The sovereignty of Greece confirmed in a London Protocol
03 Feb 1834
Wake Forest University is established in North Carolina
03 Feb 1836
Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
03 Feb 1844
Hector Berlioz Carnaval Romain premieres in Paris
03 Feb 1855
Wisconsin Supreme Coutt declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
03 Feb 1860
Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
03 Feb 1865
Hampton Roads Peace Conference Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
03 Feb 1867
Prince Mutsuhito 14 becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (-1912)
03 Feb 1869
Booth Theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
03 Feb 1870
US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races & colour
03 Feb 1876
Albert Spalding with 800 starts sporting goods co manufacturing 1st official baseball tennis ball basketball golf ball & football
03 Feb 1882
Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
03 Feb 1887
To avoid disputed national elections the US Congress creates Electoral Count Act
03 Feb 1752
Dutch States-General forbids export of windmills
03 Feb 1781
Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
03 Feb 1807
A British military force under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo in the Battle of Montevideo then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay (Napoleonic Wars)
03 Feb 1809
Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
03 Feb 1815
Worlds first commercial cheese factory established in Switzerland
03 Feb 1892
Russia closes down the Volozhin Yeshiva a Lithuanian talmudical college
03 Feb 1894
1st US steel sailing vessel Dirigo launched at Bath Maine
03 Feb 1895
Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
03 Feb 1900
Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Baltimore
03 Feb 1900
Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort Kentucky
03 Feb 1901
Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ili on Sumatra
03 Feb 1908
Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
03 Feb 1908
Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens Greece.
03 Feb 1913
16th Amendment to the US Constitution federal income tax ratified
03 Feb 1913
Golden and Cawthornes musical Sunshine Girl premieres in New York City
03 Feb 1916
Canadas original Parliament buildings in Ottawa burn down
03 Feb 1916
Tristan Tzara publishes the Dada manifesto in Zurich Switzerland
03 Feb 1918
Twin Peaks Tunnel for streetcars begins service in San Francisco at 11920 feet one of worlds longest
03 Feb 1919
Herbert and Blossoms musical Velvet Lady premieres in New York City
03 Feb 1919
Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
03 Feb 1919
The Bolshevik army is defeated in a series of clashes with the White Russians who are fighting to reclaim the government after the 1917 revolution
03 Feb 1923
The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
03 Feb 1924
Alexei Ryko elected as President of Peoples commission (succeeds Lenin)
03 Feb 1924
Canada beats United States 6-1 to retain the Olympic ice hockey gold medal (won at 1920 Summer Games) at the Chamonix Games Canadian LW Harry Watson top scores with 46 points
03 Feb 1924
Switzerland claims the inaugural Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the Chamonix Games ahead of Great Britain and Belgium
03 Feb 1927
Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
03 Feb 1929
Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
03 Feb 1930
The Indochinese Communist Party of Vietnam is established
03 Feb 1931
The Hawkes Bay earthquake New Zealands worst natural disaster kills 258
03 Feb 1933
1st interstate legislative conference in US opens Washington D.C.
03 Feb 1938
Paul Osborns On Borrowed Time premieres in NYC
03 Feb 1941
US Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law sets minimum wages & maximum hours
03 Feb 1942
Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in
03 Feb 1943
4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
03 Feb 1944
World War II United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
03 Feb 1945
Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 tons of bombs on Berlin
03 Feb 1947
-81F (-63C) Snag Yukon (North American record)
03 Feb 1947
1st black reporter in US Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
03 Feb 1947
Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
03 Feb 1950
Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spying charges
03 Feb 1951
Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
03 Feb 1951
Largest purse to date in horse racing 144323 won by Great Circle
03 Feb 1953
J Fred Muggs a chimpanzee becomes a regular on NBCs Today Show
03 Feb 1954
Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (732)
03 Feb 1956
Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama suspended 27 after a riot
03 Feb 1956
Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
03 Feb 1958
Royal Teens Short Shorts enters Top 40 chart & peaks at 3
03 Feb 1959
American Airlines Electra crashes in NYs East River killing 65
03 Feb 1961
6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4 (44.2cm))
03 Feb 1964
Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
03 Feb 1965
105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating in exams
03 Feb 1965
Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
03 Feb 1965
Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552636 km)
03 Feb 1965
Braves offer Milwaukee 500000 to terminate their lease a year earlier the proposal is turned down
03 Feb 1966
1st operational weather satellite ESSA-1 launched US
03 Feb 1967
Ronald Ryan the last person to be executed in Australia is hanged in Pentridge Prison Melbourne
03 Feb 1969
Canterbury Tales opens at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC for 122 performances
03 Feb 1969
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence ONeill announces the dissolution of the Stormont parliament and the holding of new elections
03 Feb 1971
KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
03 Feb 1971
A series of house searches by the British Army in Catholic areas of Belfast resulting in serious rioting and gun battles
03 Feb 1971
OPEC mandates total embargo against any company that rejects 55 percent tax rate
03 Feb 1971
NYPD officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust while his fellow officers stood outside and failed to call for assistance
03 Feb 1972
XI Winter Olympic Games opens in Sapporo Japan (1st in Asia)
03 Feb 1973
Dr Hooks Cover of Rolling Stone enters Top 40 & peaks at 6
03 Feb 1974
Pajama Game closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
03 Feb 1975
Billy Herman Earl Averill & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
03 Feb 1976
26th NBA All-Star Game Spectrum Philadelphia Pa East beats West 123-109 MVP Dave Bing Washington Bullets PG
03 Feb 1977
Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
03 Feb 1978
Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test after India are all out for 445 chasing 493 to win
03 Feb 1979
YMCA by Village People peaks at 2 on pop singles chart
03 Feb 1979
Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
03 Feb 1980
Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carters envoy
03 Feb 1981
Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win crickets World Series Cup
03 Feb 1981
Gro Harlem Brundtland is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Norway
03 Feb 1982
Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
03 Feb 1982
Greatest helicopter lift 56888 kg Podmoscovnoe USSR
03 Feb 1982
John Sharples of England finishes 371 hours of disco dancing
03 Feb 1982
Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
03 Feb 1984
10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
03 Feb 1985
Harrigan n Hart closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
03 Feb 1986
OPEC fails to agree upon a petroleum production agreement after a 2 day meeting in Vienna
03 Feb 1987
Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
03 Feb 1987
SD Yacht Club celebrates return of Americas Cup
03 Feb 1988
Nurses across the UK strike over pay and funding for the NHS
03 Feb 1989
Baseballs National League announces Yanks broadcaster Bill White will its 1st African American President
03 Feb 1989
Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner dictator of Paraguay
03 Feb 1990
Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58) retires after 40350 horse race
03 Feb 1991
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI AFC beats NFC 23-21 MVP Jim Kelly Buffalo Bills QB
03 Feb 1992
Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to 300 per week
03 Feb 1993
Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
03 Feb 1993
General Hospitals Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
03 Feb 1994
Les Miserables opens at Kallang Theatre Singapore
03 Feb 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
03 Feb 1998
NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
03 Feb 1998
US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy kills 20
03 Feb 1998
Mary Kay LeTourneau 36 former teacher violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
03 Feb 1998
Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas first woman executed in the United States since 1984
03 Feb 1998
Cavalese cable car disaster 20 people killed after NATO aircraft severs a cable car line
03 Feb 1999
In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
03 Feb 2005
51st National Film Awards (India) Shwaas wins the Golden Lotus
03 Feb 2007
A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
03 Feb 2008
Super Bowl XLII University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale AZ New York Giants beat New England Patriots 17-14 MVP Eli Manning New York QB
03 Feb 2011
All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
03 Feb 2013
33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk Iraq
03 Feb 2013
Super Bowl XLVII Mercedes-Benz Stadium New Orleans LA Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers 34-31 MVP Joe Flacco Baltimore QB
03 Feb 2014
2 students are shot & killed in a school shooting in Moscow
03 Feb 2016
Lord Lucans death certificate is granted 42 years after he disappeared following the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett
03 Feb 2018
Moscow has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record killing one and bringing down 2000 trees
03 Feb 1956
Toni Sailer of Austria wins the downhill at the Cortina dAmpezzo Winter Olympics becomes first athlete to sweep all 3 alpine skiing events in a single Olympics
03 Feb 1964
French sisters Marielle Goitschel (gold) and Christine Goitschel (silver) repeat (in reverse order) their top-2 finish in the slalom 2 days earlier in the giant slalom at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics
03 Feb 2019
Dam in Townsville Australia deliberately opened flooding 20000 homes after city receives record 3.3ft of rain in a week
03 Feb 2019
Super Bowl LIII Mercedes-Benz Stadium Atlanta GA New England Patriots beat Los Angeles Rams 13-3 MVP Julian Edelman NE Patriots WR Patriots 6th SB victory
03 Feb 2019
Wreckage from light aircraft carrying EPL team Cardiff Citys record signing Emiliano Sala is discovered on seabed of the English Channel cause of death head and trunk injuries
03 Feb 2019
Rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration for overstaying his visa
03 Feb 1509
The Battle of Diu naval battle at port of Diu India between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire establishes Portuguese trading control
03 Feb 1876
Albert Spalding invests 800 to start sporting goods company manufacturing first official baseball tennis ball basketball golf ball and football
03 Feb 1990
Jockey Bill Shoemaker (58) retires after 40350 horse race
03 Feb 2020
Malawis constitutional court annuls 2019 election which saw President Peter Mutharika re-elected due to voting irregularities
03 Feb 2020
Cruise ship Diamond Princess with 3700 passengers quarantined in Yokohama port Japan after cases of COVID-19 found on board
03 Feb 1907
Josek Suks Asreal Symphony dedicated to his late wife and father-in-law Antonin Dvok premieres at the Prague National Theatre conducted by Karel Kovaovic
03 Feb 1969
Musical adaptation of Chaucers Canterbury Tales opens at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC runs for 121 performances
03 Feb 1982
Columbia Shuttle moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating for STS-3 mission
03 Feb 1985
Max Showalter and Peter Walkers musical Harrigan n Hart starring Harry Groening and Mark Hamill closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 4 performances
03 Feb 2021
US and Russia extend their New START nuclear arms control treaty for five years the last remaining nuclear arms deal between the two countries
03 Feb 2021
Engineers at MIT announce they have engineered spinach to send emails when detecting explosive materials in groundwater as part of plant nanobionic research [1]
03 Feb 1943
The Four Chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others as the US Army transport ship Dorchester sinks in the North Atlantic [1]
03 Feb 1975
Billy Herman Earl Averill & Bucky Harris elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
03 Feb 1984
10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B) Challenger 4 launches
03 Feb 2022
Austria brings into force its vaccine mandate for all first country in Europe to do so
03 Feb 2022
ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi blows himself and his family up during a raid by US Special Forces in Syria [1]
03 Feb 1857
Early ice hockey game played between teams from Swavesey and Over on Mare Fen England [1]
03 Feb 1870
US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races and colors
03 Feb 1961
6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4 inches or 44.2cm)
03 Feb 1966
First soft landing on the Moon by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 9
03 Feb 1969
Ibuprofen launched in the UK under brand name Brufen as prescription medicine - now worlds most popular anti-inflammatory painkiller [1]
03 Feb 1973
Dr Hooks The Cover of Rolling Stone enters the top 40 and peaks at 6
03 Feb 2023
Coldest wind chill likely ever recorded in the US of minus 108 degrees taken at Mount Washington Observatory New Hampshire [1]
03 Feb 1509
Battle of Diu Portuguese Armada defeats a Mamluk Egyptian fleet in a naval battle at the port of Diu India establishing Portuguese trading control in the Indian Ocean
03 Feb 1653
French Chief Minister Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
03 Feb 1870
Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races and colors
03 Feb 1876
Albert Spalding invests 800 to start a sporting goods company manufacturing the first official baseball tennis ball basketball golf ball and football
03 Feb 1923
Soviet Commisision of Commasars (Sovnarkom) approves plans for expanding the Red Air Fleet mail service to include passenger service seen as the countrys start of civil aviation
03 Feb 1923
Soviet Council of Peoples Commissars (Sovnarkom) approves plans for expanding the Red Air Fleet mail service to include passenger service seen as the countrys start of civil aviation
03 Feb 1951
Dick Button wins Mens Figure Skating Championship title for 6th time
03 Feb 1956
Autherine Lucy admitted to University of Alabama and suspended for her own safety a few days later after a riot by protesters on campus
03 Feb 1959
American Airlines Flight 320 crashes in NYs East River killing 65 of the 73 people on board the Lockheed L-188 Electra
03 Feb 1973
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Shows single The Cover of the Rolling Stone written by Shel Silverstein enters the top 40 and peaks at 6
03 Feb 1977
Martin Dihigo and John Pop Lloyd are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
03 Feb 1987
MLB Montreal Expos trade pitcher Jeff Reardon to Minnesota Twins for pitcher Neal Heaton
03 Feb 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit Michigan on WKRK 97.1 FM
03 Feb 1998
Former teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau (36) violates probation with the 14 year-old father of her baby
03 Feb 2014
Teenage student shoots and kills a geography teacher and a police officer and wounds 8 at School 263 on the outskirts of Moscow Russia
03 Feb 2018
Moscow Russia has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record (43 cm 17 inches) killing one and bringing down 2000 trees
03 Feb 2023
Train carrying toxic chemicals including vinyl chloride derails in East Palestine Ohio starting a fire and leading to an intentional burn off of chemicals to stop a possible explosion [1]
03 Feb 1913
16th Amendment to the US Constitution instituting a federal income tax is ratified
03 Feb 1969
Ibuprofen launches in the UK under the brand name Brufen as a prescription medicine now the worlds most popular anti-inflammatory painkiller [1]
03 Feb 1979
Y.M.C.A. by Village People peaks at 2 on pop singles chart
03 Feb 1989
Baseballs National League announces New York Yankees broadcaster Bill White will become its 1st African American President
03 Feb 1993
General Hospital actor Tristan Rogers (46) convicted of drunk driving in Beverly Hills California
03 Feb 1993
MLB Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
03 Feb 1998
MLB New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
03 Feb 2019
British-born rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration for overstaying his visa
03 Feb 2025
Edmond Dds opera Morgiane world premiere performance 138 years after its composition by the OperaCrole and Opera Lafayette at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington D.C. [1]