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.
- 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.
- 1690 –The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
- 1809 –The Illinois Territory is created.
- 1834 –Wake Forest University is established.
- 1852 –Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
- 1916 –Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
- 1957 –Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
- 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 –After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
- 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.
- 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 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
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