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.

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Omar Khayyam (sec. XI-XII)

Como é vil o coração que não sabe amar,
que não pode embriagar-se de amor!
Se não amares, como poderás apreciar
a deslumbrante luz do sol e a doce claridade do luar?

Amor que não devaste não é amor.
Uma brasa espalha ainda o calor de uma fogueira?
Noite e dia, durante toda a sua vida,
o verdadeiro amante se consome de dor e de alegria.

Trad. de Fernando Castro

in «Os dias do amor: Um poema para cada dia», recolha, selecção e organização de Inês Ramos; prefácio de Henrique Manuel Bento Fialho, Mistério do Livro Editores, 2009.

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Cartão vermelho para os regulamentos

Toma lá cartão amarelo... Já não joga contra o Benfica. Mas eu quero jogar contra o Benfica.. demoro, demoro, demoro - toma lá... cartão vermelho!| Ah ah ah, já posso jogar contra o Benfica. Conclusão: Cartão vermelho para os regulamentos!

Esperteza ou chico espertice? Se fosse no Benfica seria uma atitude indigna; como é no Porto é revelador da superioridade da organização! E esta hein?

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On this day in History - Feb. 2

• 0672 - Saint Chad dies.
• 0962 - Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
• 1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy.
• 1119 - Callixtus II becomes Pope.
• 1124 - Duke Bořivoj II of Bohemia dies.
• 1208 - James I of Aragon was born (d. 1276).
• 1218 - Konstantin of Rostov dies (b. 1186). Prince of Novgorod.
• 1250 - King Eric XI of Sweden dies (b. 1216).
• 1387 - Portugal: Casamento, na catedral do Porto, de D. João I com D. Filipa de Lencastre.
• 1455 - King John of Denmark dies (d. 1513).
• 1461 - Owen Tudor dies beheaded after the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross. Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England.
• 1494 - Bona Sforza was born (d. 1557). Queen of Poland and a second wife of Sigismund I of Poland.
• 1502 - Damião de Góis was born (d. 1574). Portuguese philosopher.
• 1506 - René de Birague was born (d. 1583). French cardinal and chancellor.
• 1509 - Battle of Diu took place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
• 1522 - Lodovico Ferrari was born (d. 1565). Italian mathematician.
• 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione dies (b. 1478). Italian writer.
• 1536 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Santa María del Buen Aire today Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1542 - Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.
• 1556 - O pior terremoto da história atinge três províncias da China, causando a morte de aproximadamente 830.000 pessoas.
• 1559 - Damão é conquistado por Constantino de Bragança.
• 1580 - Bessho Nagaharu dies (b. 1558). Japanese retainer.
• 1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dies (b. 1525). Italian composer.
• 1595 - Jacob Van Campen was born. Dutch architect and painter.
• 1600 - Gabriel Naudé was born (d. 1653). French librarian and scholar.
• 1613 - Noël Chabanel was born (d. 1649). French Jesuit missionary.
• 1621 - Johannes Schefferus was born (d. 1679). Alsatian-born humanist.
• 1641 - Prisão em Viena de Áustria do Infante D. Duarte, irmão de D. João IV, por pressão espanhola.
• 1648 - George Abbot dies (b. ca. 1603). English writer.
• 1649 - Pope Benedict XIII was born (d. 1730).
• 1650 - Nell Gwynne was born (d. 1687). English actress, royal mistress.
• 1653 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated.
• 1660 - Govert Flinck dies (b. 1615). Dutch painter.
• 1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1608). French politician.
• 1661 - Lucas Holstenius dies (b. 1596). German humanist.
• 1669 - Louis Marchand was born (d. 1732). French organist and harpsichordist.
• 1688 - Abraham Duquesne dies (b. 1610). French naval officer.
• 1695 - François de Chevert was born (d. 1769). French general.
• 1695 - William Borlase was born (d. 1772). English naturalist.
• 1700 - Johann Christoph Gottsched was born (d. 1766). German writer.
• 1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital dies (b. 1661). French mathematician.
• 1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
• 1711 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz was born (b. 1794). Austrian diplomat.
• 1712 - Martin Lister dies. English naturalist and physician.
• 1714 - John Sharp dies (b. 1643). English Archbishop of Yorkshire.
• 1714 - Gottfried August Homilius was born (d. 1785). German composer.
• 1717 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon was born (d. 1790). Austrian field marshal.
• 1723 - Antonio Maria Valsalva dies (b. 1666). Italian anatomist.
• 1734 - Forte abalo de terra em Faro e Portimão.
• 1745 - Hannah More was born in Stapleton, Glaucestershire. English religious writer, best known for her popular tracts and an educator of the poor.
• 1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand was born (d. 1838). French politician.
• 1768 - Robert Smith dies (b. 1689). English mathematician.
• 1769 - Pope Clement XIII dies (b. 1693).
• 1786 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet was born (d. 1856). French mathematician.
• 1787 - Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
• 1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time after an unsuccessful attempt on February 1.
• 1802 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault was born (d. 1887). French chemist.
• 1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip dies (b. 1713). British statesman.
• 1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston was born (d. 1862). American Confederate general.
• 1804 - George Walton dies (b. 1749 or 1750). Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1806 - George Engelmann was born (d. 4 Feb 1884). American botanist, physician, and meteorologist who is known primarily for his botanical monographs, especially one on the cactus and also A Monography of North American Cuscutinae (1842).
• 1811 - Pedro João Baptista e Amaro José chegam a Tete, em Moçambique, completando assim a travessia de África, de costa a costa, iniciada em 1802 em Angola, em Cassengue.
• 1812 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California.
• 1825 - El Gobierno de Buenos Aires y el británico firman un tratado contra la trata de esclavos.
• 1826 - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin dies. French writer.
• 1829 - Alfred Brehm was born (d. 1884). German zoologist.
• 1832 - Ignacio López Rayón dies. Mexico Independentist heroe.
• 1841 - El Salvador se constituye en República unitaria e independiente.
• 1841 - François-Alphonse Forel was born (d. 1912). Swiss hydrologist.
• 1842 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski was born (d. 1927). Russian mathematician.
• 1848 - Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the war.
• 1848 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.
• 1849 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was born (d. 1921). Slovak poet.
• 1851 - Jose Guadalupe Posada was born (d. 1913). Mexican artist.
• 1852 - Se levanta la prohibición y se representa en París la "Dama de las Camelias".
• 1854 - Walter Howell Deverell dies. American painter.
• 1859 - Havelock Ellis was born (8 Jul 1939). American sex reformer.
• 1860 - Curtis Guild, Jr. was born (d. 1915). American politician.
• 1861 - Solomon R. Guggenheim was born (d. 1949). American art collector and philanthropist.
• 1863 - Aparece el primer artículo de Samuel Langhorne Clemens firmado como Mark Twain.
• 1870 - Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York.
• 1870 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.
• 1873 - Konstantin von Neurath was born (d. 1956). German foreign minister 1932-1938.
• 1874 - Grand County, Colorado is created when it is carved out of Summit County.
• 1875 - Fritz Kreisler was born (d. 1962). Austrian violinist.
• 1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed, consisting of Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville & Hartford.
• 1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey.
• 1878 - se funda en Argentina la ciudad de Resistencia (Chaco), en memoria del fortín establecido en el lugar, que resistió a las invasiones indígenas.
• 1878 - Alfréd Hajós was born (d. 1955). Hungarian swimmer.
• 1879 - US : 540 Paiutes arrive at Yakama reservation after a forced march through winter snows from Southern Oregon.
• 1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.
• 1881 - Orval Overall was born (d. 1947). American baseball player.
• 1882 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1882 - James Joyce was born in Dublin (d. 1941). Irish author (Ulysses).
• 1885 - El general Justo Rufino Barrios proclama en Guatemala la unión de la América Central.
• 1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• 1887 - Ernst Hanfstängl was born (d. 1975). Pianist, politician.
• 1888 - Frederick Lane was born (d. 1969). Australian swimmer.
• 1889 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was born (d. 11 Jan 1952). French army officer.
• 1890 - Portugal "A Portuguesa", o actual hino nacional, é executado pela primeira vez, num sarau realizado em Lisboa.
• 1890 - Charles Correll was born (d. 1972). American actor.
• 1890 - Guillermo Rawson dies in Paris. Argentine Red Cross founder.
• 1892 - Abertura do Porto de Santos, o maior do Brasil.
• 1893 - Cornelius Lanczos was born (d. 1974). Hungarian mathematician.
• 1893 - Raoul Riganti was bon (d. 1970). Argentine racing driver.
• 1894 - Roman Delgado was born in El Ferrol (Galice, Spain) (d. 1952). Spanish anarchist, emigrated to America at 16 and joined a Magoniste group in San Antonio, Texas.
• 1895 - Archduke Albert dies (b. 1817). Austrian general.
• 1895 - George Halas was born (d. 1983). American football player, coach, co-founder of the National Football League.
• 1895 - Archduke Albert dies (b. 1817). Austrian general.
• 1896 - Kazimierz Kuratowski ws born (d. 1980). Polish mathematician and logician.
• 1897 - The Pennsylvania state capitol is destroyed by fire.
• 1897 - Tratado de arbitrajes de límites en la Guayana Británica, firmado entre Venezuela y Gran Bretaña.
• 1897 - Aimé Avignon was born (d. 2007). France's former oldest living man.
• 1897 - Howard Johnson was born (d. 1972). American hotelier.
• 1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
• 1900 - Willie Kamm was born (d. 1988). American baseball player.
• 1901 - Queen Victoria's funeral takes place.
• 1901 - Jascha Heifetz was born (d. 1987). Lithuanian violinist.
• 1902 - Mika Etchebehere (Michèle Feldman) was born (d. 1992). Argentinian Militant Marxist and anarchist. Fought in the Spanish Revolution with the P.O.U.M. and also with Cipriano Mera.
• 1902 - Newbold Morris was born (d 1966). American politician.
• 1904 - William C. Whitney dies (b. 1841). American financier.
• 1905 - Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg (d. 1982). Russian-born author. The Fountainhead Important film critic & so-called defender of the individual against the state & collectivism who slavishly adopted the missionary position before that august governmental body, HUAC (investigating Hollywood actor-communists plotting to take over the world), as a voluntary & friendly witness.
• 1906 - Gale Gordon was born (d. 1995). American actor.
• 1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev dies (b. 8 Feb 1834). Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements.
• 1908 - Wes Ferrell was born (d. 1976). All-Star MLB pitcher.
• 1909 - Foundation of Fayal Sport Club. Portuguese club (Azores).
• 1909 - Frank Albertson was born (d. 1964). American actor.
• 1909 - Carlo Acton dies (b. 1829). Italian composer and concert pianist.
• 1911 - Jussi Bjorling was born (d. 9 Sep 1960). Swedish tenor.
• 1912 - Burton Lane was born (d. 1997). American composer and lyricist.
• 1912 - Millvina Dean was born. Last living survivour of the RMS Titanic.
• 1913 - The Grand Central Station in New York is inaugurated.
• 1913 - Poul Reichhardt was born (d. 1985). Danish actor.
• 1914 - Paysandu Sport Club (Brazil) is founded.
• 1914 - Eric Kierans was born (d. 2004). Canadian politician and economist.
• 1915 - Abba Eban was born (d. 2002). Israeli diplomat.
• 1915 - Stan Leonard was born (d. 2005). Canadian professional golfer.
• 1915 - Tomaz Kim [Joaquim Fernandes Tomaz Monteiro-Grillo] was born in Lobito, Angola (d. 24 Jan. 1967]. Angolan poet.
• 1916 - Xuan Diêu was born. Vietnamese poet.
• 1918 - Hella S. Haasse was born. Dutch writer (Onverenigbaarheid van karakter ("Incompatibility of Character," 1978) & De groten der aarde ("Great Figures of History," 1981).
• 1918 - John L. Sullivan dies (b. 1858). American heavyweight boxer.
• 1920 - The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
• 1920 - France occupies (German) Memel territory.
• 1922 - Ulysses by James Joyce is published in Paris, France.
• 1922 - Juan Marichal was born. Spanish historian and writer.
• 1922 - William Desmond Taylor dies (b. 1872). Irish film director.
• 1923 - Bonita Granville was born (d. 1988). American actress.
• 1923 - James Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1997). American poet, author. (Deliverance, 1970).
• 1923 - Liz Smith was born. American gossip columnist.
• 1923 - Red Schoendienst was born. American baseball player and manager.
• 1924 - Elfi von Dassanowsky was born. Austrian-American producer and musician.
• 1925 - Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
• 1925 - The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
• 1925 - Elaine Stritch was born. American actress.
• 1925 - Jaap Eden dies (b. 1873). Dutch skater and cyclist.
• 1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was born. French politician and President .
• 1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov dies (b. 1848). Russian general.
• 1927 - Stan Getz was born (d. 1991). American jazz musician.
• 1928 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr. was born. African American civil rights activist and author.
• 1928 - Cynthia Macdonald was born in New York. American poet. Her first published volume of poetry, Amputations (1970), drew attention with its startling imagery. She founded the creative writing program at the University of Houston in 1979.
• 1931 - Dries van Agt was born. Dutch politician.
• 1931 - Judith Viorst was born. American author.
• 1931 - Les Dawson was born (d. 1993). British comedian.
• 1931 - Argentinean anarchist Paulino Scarfo dies in a shoot out with police.
• 1932 - Robert Mandan was born. American actor.
• 1932 - Santiago de Cuba is devassed by an earthquake.
• 1932 - First world disarmament convention opens, Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1932 - Robert Mandan was born. American actor.
• 1932 - Agha Petros dies (b. 1880). Assyrian nationalist leader.
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Parliament.
• 1933 - Than Shwe was born. Ruler of Myanmar.
• 1933 - Tony Jay was born (d. 2006). English actor.
• 1935 - The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducted the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.
• 1936 - Duane Jones was born. American actor.
• 1937 - Don Buford was born. American baseball player.
• 1937 - Eric Arturo del Valle was born. President of Panama (28 Sep 1985 to 26 Feb 1988).
• 1937 - Remak Ramsay was born. American actor.
• 1937 - Tom Smothers was born. American musician and comedian (the Smothers Brothers).
• 1939 - João César Monteiro was born in Figueira da Foz. Portuguese film director.
• 1939 - Akbar Adibi was born (d. 2000). Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran.
• 1940 - Conferencia de Paz de los Estados balcánicos celebrada en Belgrado.
• 1940 - Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.
• 1940 - David Jason was born. English actor.
• 1940 - Wayne Fontes was born. American football coach.
• 1942 - Christine Keeler was born. British model.
• 1942 - Graham Nash was born. American musician.
• 1942 - Daniil Kharms dies (b. 1906). Russian playwright.
• 1943 - World War II: The last German forces surrender to the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad.The last Nazi forces surrender to the Soviets following the Battle of Stalingrad.
• 1943 - Susan Hanson was born. English actress.
• 1944 - Geoffrey Hughes was born. British actor.
• 1944 - Karen Foss was born. American broadcaster.
• 1945 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.
• 1945 - David Friedman was born. American economist.
• 1945 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler dies (b. 1884). German politician.
• 1946 - The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made.
• 1946 - Alpha Oumar Konaré was born. Ex-president of Mali.
• 1947 - Farrah Fawcett was born. American actress.
• 1947 - Melanie Safka was born. American singer.
• 1948 - Al McKay was born. American guitarist and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire).
• 1948 - Roger Williamson was born (d. 1973). English racecar driver.
• 1948 - Bevil Rudd dies (b. 1894). South African athlete.
• 1948 - Thomas W. Lamont dies (b. 1870). American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont.
• 1949 - Brent Spiner was born. American actor.
• 1949 - Francisco Maturana was born. Colombian football manager.
• 1949 - Ross Valory was born. American musician (Journey).
• 1949 - Braz do Amaral dies (b. 1861). Brazilian physician and historian.
• 1950 - Débora Duarte was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1950 - Barbara Sukowa was born in Bremen. German actress.
• 1950 - Genichiro Tenryu was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1950 - Constantin Carathéodory dies (b. 1873). Greek mathematician.
• 1952 - A tropical storm forms north of Cuba and moves northeast making landfall in Florida. It is the earliest reported formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.
• 1952 - John Cornyn was born. American politician.
• 1953 - Duane Chapman was born. American bounty hunter.
• 1954 - Christie Brinkley was born. American model.
• 1954 - Hansi Hinterseer was born. Austrian singer, actor, former skier.
• 1954 - Ina Garten was born. American author and TV personality.
• 1954 - John Tudor was born. American baseball player.
• 1955 - Virginia Leng was born. British equestrian.
• 1956 - Charles Grapewin dies (b. 1869). American actor.
• 1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky dies (b. 1876). Russian painter.
• 1957 - Phil Barney was born. French singer.
• 1957 - Grigory Landsberg dies (b. 1890). Russian physicist.
• 1957 - President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across river Indus near Sukkur.
• 1957 - Grigory Landsberg dies (b. 1890). Russian physicist.
• 1958 - Elisa Lucinda was born. Brazilian poet.
• 1958 - Michel Marc Bouchard was born. Quebec playwright.
• 1959 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper make their last onstage appearances during the GAC Winter Show tour, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.
• 1960 - Jari Porttila was born. Finnish sports journalist.
• 1961 - Lauren Lane was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Steve Penney was born. National Hockey League goaltender.
• 1961 - Anna May Wong dies (b. 1905). American actress.
• 1962 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.
• 1962 - Andy Fordham was born. English darts player.
• 1962 - Michael T. Weiss was born. American actor.
• 1962 - Paul Kilgus was born. American baseball player.
• 1963 - Más de 100 niños muertos en Biblian (Ecuador) al derrumbarse una escuela.
• 1963 - Eva Cassidy was born (d. 1996). American singer.
• 1963 - Philip Laats was born. Belgian judoka.
• 1964 - Portugal: First TV song contest in Lisbon to choose Portuguese representation in Eurovision. António Calvário with Oração won.
• 1966 - Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war.
• 1965 - Carl Airey was born. English footballer.
• 1965 - Naoki Sano was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1966 - Andrei Chesnokov was born. Russian former tennis player.
• 1966 - D. C. Douglas was born. American actor and director.
• 1966 - Robert DeLeo was born. American musician (Stone Temple Pilots).
• 1967 - Arturs Irbe was born. Latvian hockey player.
• 1967 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
• 1967 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle is elected President of Nicaragua.
• 1967 - Arturs Irbe was born. Latvian ice hockey player, goalkeeper.
• 1967 - Laurent Nkunda was born. Congolese general.
• 1967 - Robert Oppenheimer dies. American physicist.
• 1968 - Sean Elliott was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 - Scott Erickson was born. MLB pitcher.
• 1967 - Laurent Nkunda, Congolese military leader.
• 1968 - Simon Wickham-Smith was born. British musician.
• 1969 - Tim Sherwood was born. English footballer.
• 1969 - Valeri Karpin was born. Russian footballer.
• 1969 - Roberto Sousa Rocha (Latino) was born. Brazilian pop singer.
• 1969 - Boris Karloff dies (b. 1887). English actor.
• 1970 - C. Ernst Harth was born. Canadian actor.
• 1970 - Jennifer Westfeldt was born. American actress.
• 1970 - Nikolaos Michopoulos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1970 - Roar Strand was born. Norwegian footballer.
• 1970 - Bertrand Russell dies in Penthyndendrach, País de Gales (b. 18 May 1872). Welsh mathematician and philosopher; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His War Crimes Tribunal was instrumental in providing a world forum "The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm".
• 1970 - Lawrence Gray dies (b. 1898). American actor.
• 1970 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell dies (b. 1872). English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate.
• 1971 - After a coup in Uganda, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.
• 1972 - The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday.
• 1972 - Dana International was born. Israeli singer, transsexual, Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1972 - Melvin Mora was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1972 - Tego Calderón was born. nominated reggaeton singer/rapper.
• 1972 - Natalie Clifford Barney dies (b. 1876). American writer.
• 1973 - Aleksander Tammert was born. Estonian discus thrower.
• 1973 - Marissa Jaret Winokur was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Virgínia Rau dies. Portuguese historian.
• 1973 - Hendrik Elias dies (b. 1902). Belgian politician.
• 1974 - The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
• 1975 - Ieroklis Stoltidis was born. Greek football player.
• 1975 - Niclas Wallin was born. Swedish hockey player.
• 1975 - Todd Bertuzzi was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1975 - Vaggelis Koutsoures was born. Greek footballer.
• 1976 - Portugal: Aprovação da Constituição, pela Assembleia Constituinte eleita em 25 e Abril de 1975.
• 1976 - The Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
• 1976 - Robo de 119 cuadros de la última época de Picasso en el palacio de los Papas de Aviñón.
• 1976 - James Hickman was born. British swimmer.
• 1976 - Lori Beth Denberg was born. American actress.
• 1977 - Heather Martin was born. American gospel singer.
• 1977 - Libor Sionko was born. Czech football player.
• 1977 - Shakira was born. Colombian singer.
• 1978 - Barry Ferguson was born. Scotish football player.
• 1978 - Eden Espinosa was born. American singer and stage actress.
• 1978 - Bárbara Mori was born. Uruguayan-Mexican actress.
• 1979 - Fani Halkia was born. Greek hurdler.
• 1979 - Irini Terzoglou was born. Greek shot putter.
• 1979 - Shamita Shetty was born. Indian actress.
• 1979 - Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols dies of a heroin overdose (b. 1957).
• 1980 - Reports surface that FBI were targeting Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
• 1980 - Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey is founded.
• 1980 - Gucci Mane was born. American rapper.
• 1980 - Oleguer Presas was born. Spanish football player.
• 1980 - Skip Schumaker was born. Baseball player.
• 1980 - Teddy Hart was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1980 - William Howard Stein dies (b. 1911). American biologist, Nobel laureate for Chemistry in 1972.
• 1981 - Ecuador y Perú acuerdan un alto el fuego en su conflicto fronterizo, en una reunión de la OEA.
• 1981 - O Ministério dos Transportes apresenta o resultado do inquérito ao acidente de Camarate, em que perderam a vida, entre outros, o primeiro-ministro Francisco Sá Carneiro, e o ministro da Defesa, Adelino Amaro da Costa. A conclusão final diz não ter havido intervenção ilícita ou criminosa no bimotor Cessna.
• 1981 - Jason Kapono was born. American basketball player.
• 1982 - Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacked the town of Hama and killed thousands of people.
• 1982 - Brandy Talore was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1982 - Han Ga In was born. South Korean model and actress.
• 1982 - Kelly Mazzante was born. American basketball player.
• 1982 - Sergio Castaño was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1982 - Paul Desruisseaux dies (b. 1905). Quebec lawyer, businessman and politician.
• 1983 - Alex Westaway was born. British musician.
• 1983 - Carolina Klüft was born. Swedish athlete.
• 1983 - Jordin Tootoo was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1983 - Will South was born. Thirteen Senses frontman.
• 1983 - Sam Chatmon dies (b. 1897). American blues musician.
• 1986 - Oscar Arias Sanchez vence as eleições presidenciais na Costa Rica.
• 1986 - Nurse Anita Cobby is found dead in a paddock in Prospect, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She had been robbed, raped, and murdered. Five men (Micheal Murphy, Gary Murphy, Les Murphy, Micheal Murdoch, and John Travers) are later sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in June of 1987 for Anita Cobby's murder.
• 1986 - El Dalai Lama se encuentra con el Papa Juan Pablo II en la India.
• 1987 - Peace envoy imprisoned in Beirut: Reports from Lebanon say Church of England envoy Terry Waite has been kidnapped by an Islamic militia group.
• 1987 - Na famosa revista “People”, leitores norte-americanos elegeram a atriz Katharine Hepburn e o ator Cary Grant como os maiores atores de todos os tempos.
• 1987 - Gerard Piqué was born. Spanish football player.
• 1987 - Martin Spanjers was born. American actor.
• 1987 - Alistair MacLean dies (b. 1922). Scottish novelist.
• 1987 - Castilho dies (b. 1927). Brazilian legendary football goalkeeper.
• 1988 - Marcel Bozzuffi dies (b. 1929). French film actor.
• 1989 - Carlos Andrés Perez assume a presidência da Venezuela.
• 1989 - Cai o ditador do Paraguai Alfredo Stroessner, que se exila no Brasil.
• 1989 - Satellite television service Sky Television plc launched in the Europe.
• 1989 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation.
• 1989 - Arnold Nordmeyer dies (b. 1901). New Zeland politician.
• 1989 - Ondrej Nepela dies (b. 1951). Slovak figure skater.
• 1990 - Apartheid: In South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set Nelson Mandela free.
• 1990 - Joe Erskine dies (b. 1934). Welsh boxer.
• 1992 - Danielle White was born. American singer.
• 1992 - Bert Parks dies (b. 1914). American television host ( game show, Miss America ...).
• 1994 - Veteran statesman Rafael Caldera sworns as President of Venezuela.
• 1995 - Donald Pleasence dies (b. 1919). English actor.
• 1995 - Fred Perry dies (b. 1909). British former tennis player.
• 1996 - Gene Kelly dies (b. 1912). American dancer, actor, director.
• 1997 - Raimundo Saporta dies. President of honour of Real Madrid.
• 1997 - Erich Eliskases dies (b. 1913). Austrian chess player.
• 1997 - Sanford Meisner dies (b. 1904). American actor.
• 1997 - Erich Eliskases dies (b. 1913). Austrian chess player.
• 1998 - A Cebu Pacific airlines DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines killing 104.
• 1999 - David McComb dies (b. 1962). Australian musician (The Triffids).
• 2002 - Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange marries Máxima Zorreguieta.
• 2002 - Foundation of Eurodoc, the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers, in Giróna (Spain).
• 2002 - Claude Brown dies (b. 1937). American writer.
• 2002 - Paul Baloff dies (b. 1960). American vocalist.
• 2003 - Lou Harrison dies (b. 1917). American composer.
• 2004 - Israel killed a leader of Islamic Jihad and three other militants in a Gaza raid.
• 2004 - Bernard McEveety dies (b. 1924). American film director.
• 2005 - Armando Guebuza becomes the 3rd President of Mozambique.
• 2005 - Max Schmeling dies (b. 1905). German boxer.
• 2006 - An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
• 2007 - Vijay Arora dies (b. 1944). Indian film and television actor.
• 2007 - Billy Henderson dies (b. 1939). American singer (The Spinners).
• 2007 - Joe Hunter dies (b. 1927). American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers.
• 2007 - Filippo Raciti dies (b. 1967). Italian police officer.
• 2007 - Masao Takemoto dies (b. 1919). Japanese gymnast.
• 2007 - Eric von Schmidt dies (b. 1931). American folk/blues singer-songwriter.
• 2007 - Vijay Arora dies (b. 1944). Indian film and television actor.
• 2008 - Katoucha dies (b. 1960). Guinean model and activist.
• Czech Republic - Hromnice.
• France - La Chandeleur /Crêpe Day.
• Catholicism - Candlemas, The Presentation of the Lord, The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, World Day for Consecrated Life (also February 3 in the United State).
• Yemanja - Celebration of Yemanja, the sea goddess.
• World Wetlands Day.
• Portugal: Municipal Holliday in Mourão/ Feriado municipal em Mourão.

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