About February 3
February 3, 2024 is the 34th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 7 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 3
- 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.
- 1637 –Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
- 1787 –Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
- 1813 –José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1834 –Wake Forest University is established.
- 1870 –The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1900 –Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
- 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.
- 1943 –The USAT 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.
- 1954 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1957 –Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
- 1958 –Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- 1961 –A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1989 –A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
- 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.
- 1996 –The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
- 1998 –Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
- 2007 –A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
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