On this day in History - Feb. 03

• 0619 - Laurence of Canterbury dies. Second Archbishop of Canterbury
• 0699 - Saint Werburgh dies.
• 1014 - Sweyn I dies (b. ca. 0965). King of Denmark.
• 1112 - Marriage of Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence, uniting the fortunes of those two states
• 1116 - King Coloman of Hungary dies (b. 1070)
• 1194 - Henrique VI da Alemanha liberta o rei inglês Ricardo, Coração de Leão, que havia sido capturado durante a Terceira Cruzada.
• 1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon was born (d. 1378). Queen of Charles V of France.
• 1368 - Charles VI was born. King of France (1380-1422).
• 1377 - More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
• 1399 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster dies (b. 1340).
• 1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi dies (b. 1386). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1451 - Murad II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Mehmed II.
• 1468 - Johannes Gutenberg dies (b. ca. 1390). German publisher.
• 1480 - Nascimento de Fernão de Magalhães, que em 1519 comandou a expedição que realizou a viagem de circum-navegação da Terra. Morreu em 1521, nas Filipinas.
• 1488 - Bartholomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south. / Bartolomeu Dias dobra o Cabo da Boa Esperança.
• 1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
• 1536 - Garcia de Resende, Portuguese writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies in Évora; See: GARCIA DE RESENDE at LoveToKnow.
• 1566 - George Cassander dies (b. 1513). Flemish theologian.
• 1590 - Germain Pilou dies. Sculptor.
• 1619 - Henry Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham dies (b. 1564). English conspirator.
• 1677 - Jan Santini Aichel was born (d. 1723). Czech architect.
• 1690 - The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
• 1690 - Richard Rawlinson was born (d. 1755). English minister and antiquarian.
• 1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz was born (d. 1773). Prussian general.
• 1754 - George Crabbe was born (d. 1832). English poet and naturalist.
• 1754 - Nascimento de Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, governador de Cuba vice-rei de Nova Espanha.
• 1783 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
• 1787 - Shays' Rebellion is crushed, ending an uprising that would prompt negotiations that would result in the drafting of the Constitution of the United States.
• 1802 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes dies (b. 1723). Spanish statesman and writer.
• 1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay, following a siege.
• 1809 - Illinois Territory is created.
• 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn was born (d. 1847). German composer (Great Scherzos) .
• 1811 - Horace Greeley was born (d. 1872). American journalist, editor, publisher.
• 1815 - The first commercial cheese factory is founded (Switzerland).
• 1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse was born (d. 1881). French geologist.
• 1817 - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent was born. Composer .
• 1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell was born (d. 31 May 1910). Anglo-American physician who is considered the first female doctor of medicine in modern times. She was the first woman to gain the M.D. degree from a medical school in the United States.
• 1830 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil was born (d. 1903). 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1834 - The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina establishes the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute, today known as Wake Forest University.
• 1842 - Sidney Lanier was born (d. 1881). American writer.
• 1843 - Começa o estado de sítio de Montevidéu, com as tropas do Governo de Rosas.
• 1843 - Sir William Cornelius Van Horne was born, (d. 11 Sep 1915). American-born Canadian railway official who directed the construction of Canada's first transcontinental railroad.
• 1852 - Batalha de Monte Caseros (Argentina). As tropas sublevadas do general Justo José de Urquiza derrotam as do presidente Juan José Rosas e Buenos Aires aclama Urquiza como seu libertador.
• 1858 - Gabino Ezeiza was born in Buenos Aires. Argentine musician and "payador"
• 1859 - Hugo Junkers was born (d. 1935). German industrialist and aircraft designer.
• 1862 - James Clark McReynolds was born (d. 1946). U.S. Supreme Court justice.
• 1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot dies (b. 1774). French physicist.
• 1863 - Se crean los Estados Unidos de Colombia bajo el Gobierno de Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera.
• 1867 - Prince Mutshuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan.
• 1870 - The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
• 1870 - Ada Negri was born. Italian Poet / Author (Il Libro di Mara).
• 1874 - Gertrude Stein was born (d. 1946). American writer and patron of the arts.
• 1876 - Assinatura do tratado de paz que pôs fim à guerra entre Argentina e Paraguai.
• 1887 - Georg Trakl was born (d. 1914). Austrian poet.
• 1887 - Juan Negrín was born (d. 1956). Spanish Popular Front politician and Prime Minister.
• 1889 - Belle Starr dies (b. 1848). American outlaw.
• 1889 - Café Filho, 26° presidente do Brasil (24/08/1954 - 08/11/1955).
• 1893 - Gaston Julia was born (d. 1978). French mathematician.
• 1894 - Norman Rockwell was born (d. 1978). American artist, illustrator.
• 1895 - Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre was born. Peruvian politician.
• 1898 - Alvar Aalto was born (d. 1976). Finnish architect.
• 1899 - Lao She was born (d. 1966). Chinese writer.
• 1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky. Former-Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebels.
• 1902 - Ramón J. Sender was born. Spanish writer.
• 1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd was born (d. 1934). American gangster.
• 1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola was born (d. 1975). Italian composer.
• 1907 - James Michener was born (d. 1997). American author.
• 1909 - Simone Weil was born in Paris. French philosopher, Resistance fighter WW II.
• 1909 - Johann Georg Herzog dies at 86. Composer.
• 1911 - Robert Earl Jones was born. American actor
• 1913 - Inicio de la II Guerra de los Balcanes.
• 1913 - The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income tax.
• 1916 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
• 1917 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after Germany announces a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1918 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long).
• 1918 - Joey Bishop was born. American comedian, actor .
• 1918 - Helen Stephens was born. American runner, sprinter.
• 1919 - Primera reunión de la Liga de las Naciones en París.
• 1919 - Kiev was captured by the Bolsheviks .
• 1920 - George Armitage Miller, was born, American psychologist, one of the fathers of modern cognitive psychology, who also helped to establish psycholinguistics as an independent field of research in psychology. In 1991 he was awarded the National Medal of Science.
• 1920 - Henry Heimlich was born. American physician.
• 1922 - John Butler Yeats was born (d. 1839). Northern Irish artist.
• 1924 - Andrzej Szczypiorski was born (d. 2000). Writer.
• 1924 - Woodrow Wilson dies (b. 1856). 28th President of the United States.
• 1925 - John Fiedler was born. American voice actor.
• 1926 - Shelley Berman was born. American comedian.
• 1927 - Revolta Reviralhista : Inicia-se no Porto um movimento militar e civil sob o comando do general Sousa Dias contra a Ditadura militar, que será derrotado no dia 7 seguinte. Em Lisboa a revolta irá prolongar-se até ao dia 10 . ( Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal ).
• 1927 - Val Doonican was born. Irish singer and entertainer .
• 1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam was born.
• 1930 - Gillian Ayres was born. English painter.
• 1931 - The Napier earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• 1932 - Peggy Ann Garner was born (d. 1984). Actress.
• 1932 - Cinco terremotos consecutivos destruyen parte de Santiago de Cuba.
• 1933 - Concluye la guerra civil de Nicaragua con un tratado de paz firmado por Augusto César Sandino y el presidente Sacasa.
• 1933 - Paul Sarbanes was born. U. S. Senator.
• 1938 - Victor Buono was born (d. 1982). American actor.
• 1939 - Michael Cimino was born. American film director.
• 1940 - Fran Tarkenton was born. American Football Hall of Famer .
• 1941 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
• 1941 - Neil Bogart was born (d. 1982). Music company executive.
• 1942 - David Lopes dies in Lisbon (b. Moita Fundeira, Sertã, 17 Apr 1867). Portuguese writer and arabist.
• 1943 - Blythe Danner was born. American actress.
• 1944 - World War II:United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
• 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.
• 1945 - Bob Griese was born. American Football Hall of Famer .
• 1946 - Linda Wachner was born. Industry executive .
• 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.
• 1947 - Coldest ever temperature recorded in North America at Snag, Yukon, -63 degrees Celsius
• 1947 - Paul Auster was born. American novelist (Mr Vertigo, Smoke) .
• 1947 - Dave Davies was born. British musician (The Kinks).
• 1947 - Melanie Safka was born. Singer/songwriter (Candles in the Rain) .
• 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.
• 1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo was born. East Timor politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1949 - Hennie Kuiper was born. Dutch cyclist, World Champion in 1975
• 1949 - Carlos Obligado dies. Argentinean poet.
• 1950 - Morgan Fairchild was born. American actress .
• 1950 - Pamela Franklin was born. American actress
• 1951 - Dick Button wins the American figure skating championship for the sixth time.
• 1952 - The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida.
• 1952 - Fred Lynn was born. American baseball player
• 1953 - J. Catherine Roberts science teacher.
• 1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb was born. American novelist.
• 1955 - Kirsty Wark was born. British broadcast journalist.
• 1956 - Nathan Lane was born. American actor.
• 1956 - Lee Ranaldo was born. American musician (Sonic Youth)
• 1956 - Émile Borel dies (b. 1871). French mathematician, politician, statesman, member of the French Resistance during World War II
• 1957 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
• 1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw was born. American economist.
• 1959 - Thomas Calabro was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Rock and roll performers Buddy Holly (b. 1936), Ritchie Valens (b. 1941) and The Big Bopper (b. 1930) all died in a plane crash. This date becomes known as "The Day The Music Died".
• 1960 - Kerry Von Erich was born (d. 1993). American professional wrestler.
• 1960 - Fred Buscaglione dies. Italian singer and actor.
• 1961 - Keith Gordon was born. American actor and director.
• 1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs .
• 1964 - Sir Albert Richardson dies (b. 1880). English architect.
• 1965 - Maura Tierney was born. American actress
• 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.
• 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
• 1969 - Eduardo C. Mondlane founder and first President of FRELIMO is murdered in Der-es-Salaam.
• 1970 - José María Aragón (Pompoff) dies. Spanish famous clown.
• 1970 - Warwick Davis was born. British actor.
• 1971 - Sarah Kane was born (d. 1999). English playwright.
• 1972 - The first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia open in Sapporo, Japan.
• 1972 - Mart Poom was born. Estonian soccer player
• 1974 - Miriam Yeung was born. Hong Kong actress and singer.
• 1976 - Isla Fisher was born. Australian actress.
• 1978 - Sadat in US for Mid East talks : Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat arrives in Washington DC to discuss the Middle East peace process with US President Jimmy Carter.
• 1979 - First episode of You Can't Do That On Television premieres.
• 1980 - Sarah Lewitinn was born. American Blogger and writer
• 1984 - Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the tenth space shuttle mission.
• 1984 - Declaración de Caracas, firmada por seis países democráticos hispanoamericanos y por España, en la que se califica la democracia como el mejor sistema político.
• 1985 - Desmond Tutu se convierte en el primer obispo negro anglicano en Johannesburg.
• 1985 - El Papa Juan Pablo II visita Cuzco (Perú).
• 1985 - Frank Oppenheimer dies (b. 1912). American physicist.
• 1986 - Oscar Rias wins the Presidential elections in Costa Rica.
• 1987 - Carlos Lehder co-founder of Medellin Cartel, drugs dealer, is captured in Medellin and sent to Unites States where he would be tried and condemned
• 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
• 1989 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.
• 1989 - John Cassavetes dies (b. 1929). American actor, director, writer (Shadows, Too Late Blues, A Child is Waiting, Faces, A Woman under Influence, Opening Night, Glória, Love Streams)
• 1989 - Twenty villages evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
• 1989 - Military coup led by Gen. Andres Rodriguez overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay and forced him into exile. In May 1989 Rodriguez would win convincingly the presidential elections.
• 1990 - Na VI Cimeira Ibérica, os chefes dos Governos português e espanhol, Aníbal Cavaco Silva e Felipe Gonzalez, respectivamente, decidem antecipar a livre circulação de pessoas entre os dois países, em relação ao calendário europeu.
• 1991 - O Partido Comunista Italiano deixa de existir oficialmente depois de 70 anos de história, ao aprovar sua conversão para Partido Democrático da Esquerda.
• 1991 - Nancy Kulp dies (b. 1921). American actress.
• 1992 - O presidente argentino Carlos Menem assina um decreto aprovando a investigação sobre nazistas que buscaram asilo na América do Sul após a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
• 1994 - O presidente Bill Clinton anuncia o fim do embargo ao Vietname, firmando uma mudança dramática na relação dos dois países, até recentemente marcada por hostilidade ocasionada pela sangrenta Guerra do Vietname.
• 1994 - Lançamento do ônibus espacial "Discovery" com um astronauta russo à bordo, Sergei Kirkalev, o primeiro em um veículo espacial americano.
• 1995 - Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off.
• 1995 - Maria da Graça dies (b. 17 Mar 1919). Portuguese actress and singer / Morre a cantora e actriz Maria da Graça [Ladrão, Precisa-se!... (1946), Pátio das Cantigas, O (1942) aka The Courtyard of the Ballads (USA) , Porto de Abrigo (1941) .
• 1996 - Audrey Meadows dies (b. 1926). American actress.
• 1996 - Death on Portuguese roads: Na auto-estrada do Norte, na zona de Sacavém, seis colisões em cadeia provocam 7 mortos e 19 feridos.
• 1997 - Sixth general elections held in Pakistan under 1973 constitution.
• 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
• 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.
• 1998 - Sílvio Caldas dies (b. 23 May 1908). Brazilian popular musician, singer
• 1998 - Um sismo de grau 6,1, na escala de Richter, sacode o nordeste do Afeganistão, provocando mais de quatro mil mortos.
• 1999 - In Jammu & Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
• 2000 - O Senado dos Estados Unidos aprova por 89 a 4 votos a aprovação de Alan Greenspan, presidente do Banco Central norte-americano, para um quarto mandato.
• 2000 - Richard Kleindienst dies (b. 1923). American politician.
• 2001 - O governo mexicano entrega à Espanha o ex-capitão Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, para ser julgado pelos crimes de genocídio e tortura cometidos pelas juntas militares entre 1976 e 1983.
• 2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: The New England Patriots defeat the St. Louis Rams, 20-17, to win their first Super Bowl championship.
• 2003 - Lana Clarkson dies murdered (b. 1962), American actress.
• 2003 - Kid Gavilan dies (b. 1926). Cuban boxer.
• 2003 - Morre, em Lisboa, o cineasta João César Monteiro um dia depois de ter completado 64 anos. Realizou "Veredas", "Silvestre", "A Flor do Mar", "Recordações da Casa Amarela", "A Comédia de Deus", "A Branca de Neve". Ganhou o Leão de Prata, o Grande Prémio do Júri e o Prémio da Crítica, em Veneza. Pouco antes da morte, terminara o último filme, "Vai e Vem".
• 2004 - Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
• 2004 - Kaúlza de Arriaga dies (b. 1915). Portuguese General.
• 2004 - Jason Raize dies (b. 1975). American musical theatre actor.
• 2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile dies (b. 1903). Italian Catholic cardinal.
• 2005 - Ernst Mayr dies (b. 1904). German-born biologist.
• 2005 - Zurab Zhvania dies (b. 1963). Prime Minister of Georgia.
• 2006 - Al Lewis dies (b. 1923). American actor.
• 2007 - The Baghdad market bombing kills at least 121 people and inures a further 226.
• Saint Blaise Roman Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
• Boy Scout Sunday
• Feast day of Saint Werburgh
• Japan - the festival of Setsubun before spring
• Mozambique - Heroes' Day
• United States - Four Chaplains Day