February 3

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on February 3. From 1900 until now. February 3 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Amal Clooney (1978), Isla Fisher (1976) and Sarah Kane (1971). Several movies were released around February 3 over the years, such as Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears in 1980 directed by Vladimir Menshov and Shutter Island in 2010 directed by Martin Scorsese.
But much more happened on February 3 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Saints Berlindis, Celsa and Nona.
Japan - the festival of Setsubun before spring.
United States - Four Chaplains Day.
Saint Blaise, Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
Saint Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark
Mozambique - Heroes' Day.
Saint Werburgh
Saint Hadelin (+690)
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Events

2019 At the request of Chadian authorities, French Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jets strike a convoy of around 40 pickups of an armed group that entered northern Chad from Libya. (Reuters)
2018 The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that unidentified rebel factions have shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 jet over the Idlib Governorate, near Maarrat al-Nu'man, also killing its pilot. The pilot had escaped with his parachute but was killed on the ground while he fought with a pistol to evade capture. No groups claim responsibility. Russia's Ministry of Defence corroborates this version of events. (Deutsche Welle)
2017 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): According to Afghan Police, eight of their forces have been killed by the Taliban at a checkpoint in Faryab Province. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2016 Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015–present): Three Palestinian assailants launch a shooting and stabbing attack near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, killing one policewoman and seriously injuring another, and lightly injuring a civilian, before being shot and killed by other security forces at the scene. Pipe bombs were discovered on their bodies. (The Times of Israel)Two Hamas militants die after a tunnel they were digging from the Gaza Strip into Israel collapses. (AP)
2015 In the town of Chuddogram in eastern Bangladesh, anti-government protesters firebomb a bus full of sleeping passengers, leaving seven people dead. (AFP via ABC News)
2014 Fox Broadcasting Company says Super Bowl XLVIII was watched by over 111 million people in the United States, making it the most viewed television event in U.S. history. (Headline)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: At least 33 people are killed in Kirkuk, Iraq, when a suicide bomber detonates a truck packed with explosives outside a police headquarters and gunmen disguised as officers tried to storm the compound. (Reuters) (BBC) (ITV) (Sky News)
2012 Insurgency in the North Caucasus: The Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov orders his subordinates to halt attacks on the civilian population of Russia, while leaving military and security personnel as legitimate targets. (RFE/RL)
2011 All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
2010 The sculpture ''L'Homme qui marche I'' by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
2009 Spectrum Brands, maker of Ray-O-Vac batteries, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US.
2008 In Glendale, Arizona, the NFL's Super Bowl XLII is played. The New York Giants beat the previously undefeated New England Patriots with a 17-14 victory. Most Valuable Player is Giants' Quarterback Eli Manning.
2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2006 An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
2005 Alberto Gonzales wins Senate confirmation (60-36) as the USA's first Hispanic attorney general.
2004 The US Central Intelligence Agency admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2003 Record producer Phil Spector was arrested in relation to an investigation into the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old woman in Los Angeles. Press reports identify the woman as the actress Lana Clarkson.
2002 Costa Rica holds presidential and congressional elections.
1998 Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
1996 The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
1995 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
1994 Les Miserables, opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
1993 Federal trial of four police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California.
1992 Defense opens calling Noriega our ally in war on drugs
1991 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21.
1990 New York Mets' Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for alcohol rehabilitation.
1989 Bill White named NL President; 1st black major-league sports head
1988 The Democrat-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
1986 US President Ronald Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident.
1985 Joanne Carner win LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic.
1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B) - Challenger 4 launched
1983 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners.
1982 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected Premier of Norway
1980 Muhammed Ali tours Africa as US President Jimmy Carter's envoy.
1979 YMCA by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1978 India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1977 Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1976 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1974 Pajama Game closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
1973 US President Richard Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law.
1972 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1971 KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1969 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat head of Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1967 Purple Haze recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1965 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
1964 Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools.
1962 US President John Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs.
1961 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4 (44.2cm))
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.
1959 American Airlines' Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65.
1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open.
1956 Toni Sailor becomes first Olympics skier to sweep the three alpine events.
1954 Jeen van den Berg win Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32).
1951 Victor Borge Show, debuts on NBC TV
1950 American Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges.
1948 Dick Button becomes first world figure skating champion from US.
1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
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 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942.
1941 US Supreme Court upholds Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and maximum hours.
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
1931 Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls the state the "apex of moronia".
1930 William Howard Taft resigns as chief justice for health reasons.
1929 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1927 Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal.
1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland).
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 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed
1916 Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland.
1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal.
1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified.
1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Baltimore.
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