About February 3
February 3, 2023 is the 34th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 372 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 3
- 1112 –Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
- 1451 –Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1637 –Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
- 1706 –During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
- 1809 –The Illinois Territory is created.
- 1813 –José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
- 1870 –The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1913 –The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
- 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.
- 1954 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1958 –Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
- 1984 –Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 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.
- 1989 –A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
- 1996 –The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
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