February
3
Four
Chaplains Day (United States)
Heroes' Day (Mozambique)
Martyrs' Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Setsubun (Japan)
Veterans' Day (Thailand)
Events
1377 – More than 2,000 people of
the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered
by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
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.
1690 – The colony of Massachusetts
issues the first paper money in
America.
1783 – American Revolutionary War:
Spain recognizes United States independence.
1830 – The sovereignty of Greece
is confirmed in a London Protocol.
1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake,
New Zealand's worst natural disaster,
kills 258.
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.
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.
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