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
- 1377 –More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
- 1534 –The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
- 1637 –Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
- 1781 –American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
- 1787 –Shays’ Rebellion is crushed.
- 1945 –World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
- 1947 –The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1984 –Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 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 –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.
- 2007 –A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
- 2008 –The New York Giants defeated the heavily favored and previously undefeated 18-0 New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, 17-14, in what is known to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
- 2011 –All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
- 2030 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
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