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On this day - February 3
1047 — Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans ...
1112 — Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess ...
1451 — Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 — Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding ...
1509 — The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman ...
1583 — Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where ...
1637 — Tulip Mania collapses within the Dutch Republic.
1639 — The House of Assembly of Barbados meets for the first time.
1690 — The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in ...
1706 — During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a ...
1716 — The 1716 Algiers earthquake sequence began with an Mw 7.0 ...
1781 — American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the ...
1783 — Spain–United States relations are first established.
1787 — Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of ...
1807 — A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel ...
1809 — The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States ...
1813 — José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the ...
1830 — The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence ...
1862 — Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian ...
1870 — The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ...
1913 — The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ...
1916 — The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, ...
1917 — World War I: The American entry into World War I begins when ...
1918 — The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins ...
1927 — A revolt against the military dictatorship of Portugal breaks ...
1930 — The Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a ...
1931 — The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst ...
1933 — Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into ...
1943 — The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 ...
1944 — World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands ...
1945 — World War II: The United States and the Philippine ...
1945 — World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of ...
1953 — The Batepá massacre occurs in São Tomé when the colonial ...
1958 — Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ...
1959 — Sixty-five people are killed when American Airlines Flight 320 ...
1959 — Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. ...
1960 — British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind ...
1961 — The United States Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass, ...
1966 — The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to ...
1971 — New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug ...
1972 — The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would ...
1984 — Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space ...
1984 — Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical ...
1989 — A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of ...
1989 — After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President ...
1994 — Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei ...
1995 — Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the ...
1998 — Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot ...
2005 — One hundred five people are killed when Kam Air Flight 904 ...
2007 — A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures ...
2014 — A school shooting in Moscow, Russia leaves two people dead and ...
2023 — Ohio train derailment: A freight train containing vinyl ...
2026 — Islamist militants massacred at least 162 while injuring and ...