On this day in History - Feb. 3

• 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). Japanese 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 dies in Évora (b. 1470). Portuguese writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral).
  
• 1566 - George Cassander dies (b. 1513). Flemish theologian.
• 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.
• 1706 - During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
• 1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz was born (d. 1773). Prussian general.
• 1737 - Tommaso Ceva dies (b. 1648). Italian mathematician.
• 1747 - Samuel Osgood was born (d. 1813). American patriot.
• 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.
• 1777 - John Cheyne was born (d. 1836). British physician, surgeon and author.
• 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.
• 1795 - Antonio José de Sucre was born (d. 1830). South American independence leader.
• 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.
• 1807 - Joseph E. Johnston was born (d. 1891). Confederate general.
• 1808 - Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar was born (d. 1877). Princess of Prussia.
• 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.
• 1824 - Ranald MacDonald was born (d. 1894). Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter.
• 1826 - Walter Bagehot was born (d. 1877). British essayist, journalist and businessman.
• 1830 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil was born (d. 1903). 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1832 - George Crabbe dies (b. 1754). English naturalist.
  
• 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.
• 1859 - Urbano Santos was born (d. 1922). Brazilian politician and Vice-President of Brazil (1914-1918).
• 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.
• 1866 - François-Xavier Garneau dies (b. 1809). French Canadian poet and historian.
• 1867 - Prince Mutshuhito becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan,the 122nd emperor 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).
• 1872 - Lou Criger was born (d. 1934). American baseball player.
• 1874 - Gertrude Stein was born (d. 1946). American writer and patron of the arts.
• 1874 - Lunalilo dies (b. 1835). Hawaiian monarch.
  
• 1876 - Assinatura do tratado de paz que pôs fim à guerra entre Argentina e Paraguai.
• 1876 - William Tedmarsh was born (d. 1937). Silent movie actor.
• 1887 - Georg Trakl was born (d. 1914). Austrian poet.
• 1887 - Juan Negrín was born (d. 1956). Spanish Popular Front politician and Prime Minister.
• 1889 - Carl Theodor Dreyer was born (d. 1968). Danish film director.
• 1889 - Belle Starr dies (b. 1848). American outlaw.
• 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.
• 1897 - Alfredo Monteiro Brochado was born in Amarante (d. 16 May 1949). Portuguese poet.
• 1898 - Alvar Aalto was born (d. 1976). Finnish architect.
• 1899 - Doris Speed was born (d. 1994). English actress.
• 1899 - João Café Filho was born (d. 1970). Brazilian president.
• 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 - Luigi Dallapiccola was born (d. 1975). Italian composer.
• 1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd was born (d. 1934). American gangster.
• 1905 - Arne Beurling was born (d. 1986). American mathematician.
• 1907 - James Michener was born (d. 1997). American author.
• 1908 - Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece.
• 1909 - André Cayatte was born (d. 1989). French filmmaker.
• 1909 - Simone Weil was born in Paris (d. 1943). French philosopher, Resistance fighter WW II.
• 1909 - Johann Georg Herzog dies at 86. Composer.
• 1911 - Jehan Alain was born (d. 1940). French organist and composer.
• 1911 - Robert Earl Jones was born (d. 2006). American actor.
  
• 1912 - Jacques Soustelle was born (d. 1990). French anthropologist.
• 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.
• 1913 - Richard Seaman was born (d. 1939). British racing driver.
• 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 - Helen Stephens was born (d. 1994). American runner.
  
• 1918 - Joey Bishop was born. American comedian, actor .
• 1919 - Primera reunión de la Liga de las Naciones en París.
• 1919 - Kiev was captured by the Bolsheviks .
• 1919 - João Penha dies in Braga (b. 29 Apr. 1838). Portuguese poet.
• 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.
• 1920 - Tony Gaze was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1922 - John Butler Yeats was born (d. 1839). Northern Irish artist.
• 1923 - The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
• 1923 - Alys Robi was born. Quebec singer
• 1924 - Andrzej Szczypiorski was born (d. 2000). Writer.
• 1924 - E. P. Thompson was born (d. 1993). English socialist historian, (The Making of the English Working Class).
  
• 1924 - Martial Asselin was born. French Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec
• 1924 - Woodrow Wilson dies (b. 1856). 28th President of the United States.
• 1925 - John Fiedler was born (d. 2005). American voice actor.
• 1925 - Keith Dunstan was born. Australian author and journalist
• 1925 - Leon Schlumpf was born. Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
  
• 1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel was born. German politician.
• 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 - Blas Ople was born (d. 2003). Filipino politician.
  
• 1927 - Joan Lowery Nixon was born (d. 2003). American writer.
• 1927 - Kenneth Anger was born. American Underground Filmmaker.
• 1927 - Val Doonican was born. Irish singer and entertainer.
• 1928 - Frankie Vaughan was born (d. 1999). British singer.
• 1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang dies (b. 1878). Danish scientist.
  
• 1929 - Ken Shipp was born. American football coach.
• 1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam was born.
• 1930 - Gillian Ayres was born. English painter.
• 1931 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• 1932 - Cinco terremotos consecutivos destruyen parte de Santiago de Cuba.
• 1932 - Peggy Ann Garner was born (d. 1984). American actress.
  
• 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. American politician.
• 1935 - Hugo Junkers dies (b. 1859). German engineer.
  
• 1936 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg dies (b. 1885). Consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania.
  
• 1937 - Marija Leiko dies (b. 1887). Latvian film actress.
  
• 1938 - Emile Griffith was born. US Virgin Islands professional boxer.
• 1938 - Victor Buono was born (d. 1982). American actor.
• 1939 - Michael Cimino was born. American film director.
• 1940 - Fran Tarkenton was born. American football player.
  
• 1941 - World War II: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
• 1941 - Dory Funk, Jr. was born. American professional wrestler.
• 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.
• 1943 - Dennis Edwards was born. American singer (The Temptations).
• 1943 - Shawn Phillips was born. American singer, guitarist and songwriter.
• 1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
• 1944 - Trisha Noble was born. Australian singer and actress
• 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.
• 1945 - World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.
• 1945 - Bob Griese was born. American Football Hall of Famer .
• 1945 - Johnny Cymbal was born (d. 1993). American singer and songwriter.
• 1945 - Roland Freisler dies (b. 1893). Nazi leader.
  
• 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 - The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon, Alaska -63 degrees Celsius.
  
• 1947 - Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.
• 1947 - Dave Davies was born. British musician (The Kinks).
• 1947 - Melanie Safka was born. American singer-songwriter (Candles in the Rain).
• 1947 - Paul Auster was born. American novelist (Mr. Vertigo, Smoke).
• 1947 - Stephen McHattie was born. Canadian actor.
• 1947 - Marc Mitscher dies (b. 1887). American Navy Admiral.
  
• 1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo was born. East Timor politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1948 - Henning Mankell was born. Swedish author.
• 1949 - Arthur Kane was born. American musician.
• 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.
• 1951 - Eugenijus Riabovas was born. Lithuanian football manager
• 1952 - The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida.
• 1952 - Fred Lynn was born. American baseball player.
• 1953 - J. Catherine Roberts was born. Science teacher.
• 1953 - Savvas Tsitouridis was born. Greek politician.
• 1954 - Tiger Williams was born. Canadian ice hockey players.
• 1955 - Kirsty Wark was born. British broadcast journalist
• 1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb was born. American novelist.
• 1956 - John Jefferson was born. American football player.
• 1956 - Lee Ranaldo was born. American musician (Sonic Youth).
• 1956 - Nathan Lane was born. American actor.
• 1956 - Émile Borel dies (b. 1871). French mathematician, politician, statesman, member of the French Resistance during World War II.
• 1956 - Johnny Claes dies (b. 1916). Belgian racing driver.
• 1957 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
• 1957 - Chico Serra was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1957 - Steven Stapleton was born. British musician (Nurse With Wound).
• 1958 - Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
• 1958 - Joe F. Edwards, Jr. was born. American astronaut.
• 1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw was born. American economist.
• 1959 - Lol Tolhurst was born. British musician (The Cure).
• 1959 - Thomas Calabro was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Yasuharu Konishi was born. Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five).
• 1959 - Rock and roll performers Buddy Holly (b. 1936), Ritchie Valens (b. 1941), The Big Bopper (b. 1930) and Roger Peterson (the pilot) died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. This date becomes known as "The Day The Music Died".
• 1960 - Kerry Von Erich was born (d. 1993). American professional wrestler.
• 1960 - Marty Jannetty was born. American wrestler.
• 1960 - Fred Buscaglione dies (b. 1921). Italian singer and actor.
• 1961 - Jay Adams was born. American skateboarder.
• 1961 - Keith Gordon was born. American actor and director.
• 1961 - Linda Eder was born. American singer.
• 1961 - Viscount Dunrossil dies (b. 1893). Australian governor-general.
• 1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs.
• 1962 - Michele Greene was born. American actress.
• 1964 - Sir Albert Richardson dies (b. 1880). English architect.
• 1965 - Karlous Marx Shinohamba was born. Namibian politician.
• 1965 - Maura Tierney was born. American actress.
• 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
• 1966 - Frank Coraci was born. American film director.
• 1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
• 1967 - Bob Taylor was born. English footballer.
• 1967 - Dave Benson-Phillips was born. Children's TV Presenter.
• 1967 - Joe Meek dies (b. 1929). English record producer.
  
• 1968 - Vlade Divac was born. Serbian professional basketball player.
• 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
• 1969 - Eduardo C. Mondlane (b. 1920), founder and first President of FRELIMO is murdered in Dar-es-Salaam.
• 1969 - Retief Goosen was born. Professional golfer.
• 1970 - Oscar Cordoba was born. Colombian footballer.
• 1970 - Warwick Davis was born. British actor.
• 1970 - José María Aragón (Pompoff) dies. Spanish famous clown.
• 1971 - New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believed the incident proved NYPD officers tried to kill him.
• 1971 - Elisa Donovan was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Hong Seok-cheon was born. South Korean actor.
• 1971 - Sarah Kane was born (d. 1999). English playwright.
  
• 1971 - Sean Dawkins was born. Former American football wide receiver.
• 1971 - Vincent Elbaz was born. French actor.
• 1972 - The first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia open in Sapporo, Japan.
• 1972 - Jesper Kyd was born. Film and Video game music composer.
• 1972 - Mart Poom was born. Estonian football player (goalkeeper).
• 1973 - Ilana Sod was born. Mexican journalist.
• 1974 - Science fiction author Philip K. Dick reportedly has a gnostic religious experience or theophany, later recounted in his books Valis and Radio Free Albemuth.
• 1974 - Konrad Gałka was born. Polish swimmer.
• 1974 - Miriam Yeung was born. Hong Kong actress and singer.
• 1975 - Umm Kulthum dies (b. 1904). Egyptian singer.
  
• 1975 - William D. Coolidge dies (b. 1873). American physicist and inventor.
  
• 1976 - Dwayne Rudd was born. American football player.
• 1976 - Isla Fisher was born. Australian actress.
• 1976 - Mathieu Dandenault was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1976 - Tim Heidecker was born. American comedian.
• 1977 - Daddy Yankee was born. Reggaeton singer/rapper.
• 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.
• 1978 - Adrian R'Mante was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Eliza Schneider was born. American actress and singer.
• 1979 - First episode of You Can't Do That On Television premieres.
• 1980 - Sarah Lewitinn was born. American writer.
• 1981 - Alisa Reyes was born. American actress and singer.
• 1981 - Maurice Ross was born. English footballer.
• 1982 - Alan Gurr was born. Australian V8 Supercar driver.
• 1982 - Jessica Harp was born. American singer (The Wreckers).
• 1983 - Richard Bartel was born. American football quarterback.
• 1983 - Silambarasan Rajendar was born. Famous south Indian actor.
• 1984 - Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one women to another resulting in a live birth.
• 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 - A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
• 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.
• 1989 - Ryne Sanborn was born. American actor.
• 1989 - Slobodan Rajković was born. Serbian footballer.
• 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 - Lionel Newman dies (b. 1916). American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger.
  
• 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.
• 1990 - Sean Kingston was born. American reggae rapper.
• 1991 - The Italian Communist Party dissolves and splits into the Democratic Party of the Left and the Communist Refoundation Party.
• 1991 - Adrian Quaife-Hobbs was born. British racing driver.
• 1991 - Harry Ackerman dies (b. 1912). American TV executive producer.
• 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 - 7.0 Earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
• 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.
• 2006 - José Vitoriano dies. Portuguese politician.
• 2007 - A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
• 2007 - Pedro Knight dies (b. 1921). Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz.
• 2007 - Ralph de Toledano dies (b. 1916). Moroccan-born American political columnist and author.
• 2007 - George Becker dies (b. 1928). American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001).
• Saint Blaise Roman Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
• Feast day of Saint Werburgh.
  
• Japan - the festival of Setsubun before spring.
• Mozambique - Heroes' Day.
• United States - Four Chaplains Day.