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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

liturgical feasts

References

External links

Events

★ 1112 - marriage of Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence, uniting the fortunes of those two states

★ 1377 - more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).

★ 1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.

★ 1488 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south.

★ 1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.

★ 1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.

★ 1706 - Swedish forces defeats a superior Saxon-Russian force by deploying a text book example of a double envelopment during the Battle of Fraustadt.

★ 1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.

★ 1787 - Shays' Rebellion is crushed, ending an uprising that would prompt negotiations that would result in the drafting of the Constitution of the United States.

★ 1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay, following a siege.

★ 1809 - Illinois Territory is created.

★ 1815 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded (Switzerland).

★ 1834 - The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina establishes the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, today known as Wake Forest University.

★ 1867 - Prince Mutshito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan.

★ 1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, grants voting rights regardless of race.

★ 1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky. Former Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.

★ 1913 - The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect a graduated income tax.

★ 1916 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.

★ 1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

★ 1918 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long).

★ 1923 - Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.

★ 1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam was born.

★ 1931 - The Napier earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.

★ 1941 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.

★ 1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.

★ 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.

★ 1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.

★ 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.

★ 1947 - Coldest ever temperature recorded in North America at Snag, Yukon, -63 degrees Celsius

★ 1952 - The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida.

★ 1957 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).

★ 1959 - The Day The Music Died: A plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.

★ 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

★ 1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.

★ 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

★ 1974 - Science fiction author Philip K. Dick reportedly has a gnostic religious experience or theophany, later recounted in his books Valis (1981) and Radio Free Albemuth (1985).

★ 1984 - Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

★ 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.

★ 1989 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.

★ 1989 - A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.

★ 1997 - Sixth general elections held in Pakistan under 1973 constitution.

★ 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.

★ 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.

★ 1999 - In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.

★ 2004 - Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.

★ 2007 - The Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.

★ 2007 - An outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian flu was confirmed at a turkey farm owned by Bernard Matthews Foods in Suffolk, U.K.

Births

★ 1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)

★ 1677 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)

★ 1690 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)

★ 1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)

★ 1747 - Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813)

★ 1754 - George Crabbe, English naturalist (d. 1832)

★ 1795 - Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)

★ 1807 - Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general (d. 1891)

★ 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)

★ 1811 - Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)

★ 1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)

★ 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910)

★ 1830 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)

★ 1842 - Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)

★ 1843 - William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915)

★ 1859 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)

★ 1862 - James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)

★ 1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)

★ 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)

★ 1887 - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)

★ 1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)

★ 1893 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)

★ 1894 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)

★ 1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)

★ 1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)

★ 1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)

★ 1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)

★ 1905 - Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)

★ 1907 - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)

★ 1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)

★ 1909 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989)

★ 1911 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)

★ 1911 - Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)

★ 1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990)

★ 1918 - Joey Bishop, American comedian

★ 1918 - Helen Stephens, American runner

★ 1920 - Henry Heimlich, American physician

★ 1920 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver

★ 1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer

★ 1924 - Martial Asselin, French Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec

★ 1925 - John Fiedler, American voice actor (d. 2005)

★ 1925 - Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist

★ 1925 - Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council

★ 1926 - Shelley Berman, American comedian

★ 1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician

★ 1927 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer

★ 1927 - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)

★ 1927 - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker

★ 1930 - Gillian Ayres, English painter

★ 1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)

★ 1933 - Paul Sarbanes, American politician

★ 1938 - Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)

★ 1938 - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer

★ 1939 - Michael Cimino, American film director

★ 1940 - Fran Tarkenton, American football player

★ 1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)

★ 1943 - Blythe Danner, American actress

★ 1943 - Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations)

★ 1943 - Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter

★ 1944 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress

★ 1945 - Bob Griese, American football player

★ 1945 - Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (d. 1993)

★ 1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist

★ 1947 - Dave Davies, British musician (The Kinks)

★ 1947 - Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter

★ 1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate

★ 1948 - Henning Mankell, Swedish author

★ 1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist

★ 1950 - Morgan Fairchild, American actress

★ 1951 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager

★ 1952 - Fred Lynn, American baseball player

★ 1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey players

★ 1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist

★ 1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist

★ 1956 - Nathan Lane, American actor

★ 1956 - John Jefferson, American football player

★ 1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)

★ 1957 - Chico Serra, Brazilian racing driver

★ 1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist

★ 1959 - Thomas Calabro, American actor

★ 1959 - Laurence Tolhurst, British musician (The Cure)

★ 1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)

★ 1960 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)

★ 1961 - Keith Gordon, American actor

★ 1961 - Jay Adams, American skateboarder

★ 1962 - Michele Greene, American actress

★ 1965 - Maura Tierney, American actress

★ 1965 - Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician

★ 1967 - Bob Taylor, English footballer

★ 1968 - Vlade Divac, Serbian professional basketball player

★ 1969 - Retief Goosen, professional golfer

★ 1970 - Warwick Davis, British actor

★ 1970 - Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer

★ 1971 - Elisa Donovan, American actress

★ 1971 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)

★ 1971 - Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor

★ 1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player

★ 1973 - Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist

★ 1974 - Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress

★ 1974 - Konrad Gałka, Polish swimmer

★ 1976 - Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian hockey player

★ 1976 - Isla Fisher, Australian actress

★ 1976 - Dwayne Rudd, American football player

★ 1978 - Adrian R'Mante, American actor

★ 1978 - Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer

★ 1980 - Sarah Lewitinn, American writer

★ 1981 - Maurice Ross, English footballer

★ 1982 - Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)

★ 1982 - Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver

★ 1983 - Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress

★ 1989 - Ryne Sanborn, American actor

★ 1990 - Sean Kingston, American reggae rapper

★ 1991 - Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, British racing driver

Deaths

★ 619 - Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury

★ 699 - Saint Werburgh

★ 1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark

★ 1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)

★ 1399 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)

★ 1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)

★ 1451 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)

★ 1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher

★ 1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)

★ 1619 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)

★ 1737 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)

★ 1802 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (b. 1723)

★ 1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)

★ 1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)

★ 1874 - Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)

★ 1889 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)

★ 1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)

★ 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)

★ 1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)

★ 1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)

★ 1945 - Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893)

★ 1947 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887)

★ 1956 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)

★ 1956 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)

★ 1959 - Also known as The Day the Music Died because of the deaths of:

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★ Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)

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★ Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)

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★ J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)

★ 1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)

★ 1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)

★ 1967 - Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)

★ 1969 - Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique independence founder (b. 1920)

★ 1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)

★ 1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)

★ 1989 - John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)

★ 1989 - Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)

★ 1991 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)

★ 1993 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (b. 1916)

★ 1996 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)

★ 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)

★ 2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)

★ 2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (b. 1962)

★ 2004 - Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)

★ 2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)

★ 2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)

★ 2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)

★ 2006 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)

★ 2007 - Pedro Knight, Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz (b. 1921)

★ 2007 - Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)

★ 2007 - George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001) (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

★ Japan - the festival of Setsubun before spring.

★ Mozambique - Heroes' Day.

★ United States - Four Chaplains Day.

★ United States - the earliest calendar day that Mardi Gras can occur.

liturgical feasts

★ Saint Blaise, Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.

★ Aaron the Illustrious, saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church^[1]

★ Saint Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark

★ Saint Hadelin

★ Saint Werburgh

★ Saint Berlindis

★ Saint Nona and Saint Celsa

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★ February 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

References

1.
★ Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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