About February 3
February 3, 2025 is the 34th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 379 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 3
- 313 –Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius met at a conference in Milan. They proclaimed a policy of religious freedom, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
- 1451 –Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1690 –The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
- 1787 –Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
- 1807 –A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
- 1830 –The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
- 1834 –Wake Forest University is established.
- 1852 –Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
- 1870 –The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1916 –Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
- 1917 –World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1958 –Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- 1959 –A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
- 1966 –The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
- 1969 –In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
- 1984 –Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 1996 –The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
- 2007 –A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
- 2011 –All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
- 2011 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
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