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Birthday February 03, 1809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer |
Birthday February 03, 1811 Horace Greeley, editor (told young men to go west) |
Birthday February 03, 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school |
Birthday February 03, 1830 Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C) & British P.M. (1885-1902) |
Birthday February 03, 1842 Sidney Lanier, poet |
Birthday February 03, 1874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway |
Birthday February 03, 1894 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers) |
Birthday February 03, 1907 James A. Mitchner, U.S. writer (South Pacific & Hawaii & Space) |
Birthday February 03, 1918 Joey Bishop, comedian |
Birthday February 03, 1926 Shelley Berman, comedian |
Birthday February 03, 1932 Peggy Ann Garner, in Canton Ohio |
Birthday February 03, 1940 Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback (Minnesota Vikings) |
Birthday February 03, 1943 Blythe Danner, in Philadelphia |
Birthday February 03, 1944 Bridget Handley, in Budapest |
Birthday February 03, 1947 Melanie (Safka), singer & songwriter |
Birthday February 03, 1950 Morgan Fairchild, in Dallas Texas |
History February 03, 1780 Early American mass murder changes common perceptions of crime |
History February 03, 1781 Greene crosses the Yadkin with Kosciusko's boats |
History February 03, 1809 Territory of Illinois organized |
History February 03, 1820 Keats falls deathly ill |
History February 03, 1864 Sherman's march through Mississippi |
History February 03, 1865 Hampton Roads Conference |
History February 03, 1869 Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet) |
History February 03, 1889 Belle Starr murdered in Oklahoma |
History February 03, 1917 U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Germany |
History February 03, 1918 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11 -920 ft) streetcar tunnel begins service |
History February 03, 1924 Woodrow Wilson dies |
History February 03, 1944 U.S. troops capture the Marshall Islands |
History February 03, 1945 Walt Disney's "The Three Caballeros" released |
History February 03, 1945 Yalta Conference agreed that Russia would enter WWII against Japan |
History February 03, 1950 Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing atomic bomb information to Soviets |
History February 03, 1953 Cousteau publishes The Silent World |
History February 03, 1955 Diem institutes limited agrarian reforms |
History February 03, 1959 The day the music died |
History February 03, 1959 The Music dies in an Iowa cornfield |
History February 03, 1964 Meet the Beatles goes Gold |
History February 03, 1966 Lunik 9 soft-lands on lunar surface |
History February 03, 1966 Soviet Luna 9 1st spacecraft to soft-land on moon |
History February 03, 1970 Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings |
History February 03, 1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 4 is launched |
History February 03, 1989 John Cassavetes dies |
History February 03, 1994 Clinton ends Vietnam trade embargo |
History February 03, 1994 Clinton ends trade embargo of Vietnam |
History February 03, 1998 Marine jet severs ski-lift cable in Italy |
History February 03, 2002 New England Patriots win first Super Bowl |
History February 03, 2006 World's Fastest Indian makes U.S. debut |
History February 03, 2008 New York Giants upset New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII |