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

  • 1509 –
    The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
  • 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.
  • 1783 –
    American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
  • 1834 –
    Wake Forest University is established.
  • 1916 –
    Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
  • 1947 –
    The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
  • 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.
  • 1967 –
    Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
  • 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.
  • 1984 –
    John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.

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