February 1st 1985 – Maybell, Colorado reaches a record low of -61 degrees.


Gosh, I hope that's Centigrade. :-\\ Although that's too cold for my liking too. ;D

That day that music died

That day that music died
February 3rd 1959 – American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed when their plane crashed shortly after taking off from Mason City Municipal Airport in Iowa.

February 3rd 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.

February 3rd 1377 – More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).

February 3rd 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.

February 3rd 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

February 3rd 1509 – The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.

February 3rd 1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas, is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.

February 3rd 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) by government order.

February 3rd 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.

February 3rd 1706 – During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.

February 3rd 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.

February 3rd 1787 – Shays' Rebellion is crushed.

February 3rd 1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.

February 3rd 1809 – The Illinois Territory is created.

February 3rd 1830 – The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.

February 3rd 1834 – Wake Forest University is established.

February 3rd 1867 – Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan.

February 3rd 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of race.

February 3rd 1900 – Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.

February 3rd 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

February 3rd 1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.

February 3rd 1917 – World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

February 3rd 1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.

February 3rd 1930 – The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.

February 3rd 1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.

February 3rd 1944 – World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.

February 3rd 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.

February 3rd 1945 – World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.

February 3rd 1947 – The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.

February 3rd 1947 – The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
On February 3, 1947, the record-low temperature for continental North America was recorded in Snag: −63 °C (−81.4 °F). That same winter, two previous records had already been set: one on December 13 in Mayo, Yukon and another at Snag the day before. Staff at the station made note of various phenomena, particularly sound such as voices being heard clearly miles from their source. There was a clear sky (except some ice fog), and little wind. There were 38.1 centimetres (15.0 in) of snow on the ground, but was fast decreasing. Another town 180 km (112 mi) northeast of Snag, Fort Selkirk, claimed an even lower temperature of −65 °C (−85.0 °F), but this could not be confirmed.

February 3rd 1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).

February 3rd 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.

February 3rd 1959 – American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed when their plane crashed shortly after taking off from Mason City Municipal Airport in Iowa.
The day that music died.

February 3rd 1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.

February 3rd 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

February 3rd 1967 – Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.

February 3rd 1969 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

February 3rd 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.

February 3rd 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.

Maybe they should make a movie about this incident  :D

Maybe they should make a movie about this incident  :D
If so....

February 3rd 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.

February 3rd 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

February 3rd 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.

February 3rd 1989 – After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.

February 3rd 1989 – A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.

February 3rd 1991 – The Italian Communist Party dissolves and splits into the Democratic Party of the Left and the Communist Refoundation Party.

February 3rd 1996 – The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.

February 3rd 1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.

February 3rd 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.

February 3rd 2007 – A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.

1956  Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama--suspended 2/7 after a riot


In a complete reversal of spirit from when she was first admitted there, the university named an endowed scholarship in her honor and unveiled a portrait of her in the student union overlooking the most trafficked spot on campus. The inscription reads "Her initiative and courage won the right for students of all races to attend the University."

February 3rd 1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants

February 3rd 1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football

February 3rd 1518  Pope Leo X imposed silence on the Augustinian monks.

February 3rd 1985  In South Africa, Desmond Tutu, 53, became Johannesburg's first black Anglican bishop.

February 3rd 1964  "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold

WOW-5 pages of stuff that happened on this date. Couldn't you have consolidated some of them-like by decade/century or something-or are you just a post whore and trying to bring your already high post count up even higher?  ;) :D ;D ;D ;D




Cat

WOW-5 pages of stuff that happened on this date. Couldn't you have consolidated some of them-like by decade/century or something-or are you just a post whore and trying to bring your already high post count up even higher?  ;) :D ;D ;D ;D




Cat
It is only two pages for me.

It is only two pages for me.



You started with Reply #4932 and went to Reply #4988. That's a lot more than in LTE sometimes.



Cat

It is only two pages for me.

For me it would be about 5 or 6 pages; I keep 10 replies to a page.

You started with Reply #4932 and went to Reply #4988. That's a lot more than in LTE sometimes.



Cat
I looks like that Febraury 3rd has been a busy day.

I looks like that February 3rd has been a busy day.

In my life it was a busy day in 1990, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008...but mainly for personal reasons. However I will mention that in 2004 my mom had her first thyroid surgery.

February 4th 960 – Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song Dynasty period that would eventually last for more than three centuries.

February 4th 1703 – Forty-six of the Forty-Seven Ronin committed seppuku (ritual suicide) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, as recompense for avenging the death of their master, Daimyo of Akō Asano Naganori.

February 4th 1859 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt.

February 4th 1945 – World War II: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta Conference in Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization.

February 4th 1957 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logged her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

February 4th 211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.

February 4th 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

February 4th 1454 – In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.

February 4th 1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.

February 4th 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

February 4th 1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.

February 4th 1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.

February 4th 1810 – The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.

February 4th 1820 – The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.

February 4th 1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.

February 4th 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.

February 4th 1899 – The Philippine-American War begins.

February 4th 1932 – Japan occupies Harbin, China.

February 4th 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

February 4th 1941 – World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.

February 4th 1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.

February 4th 1966 – All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.

February 4th 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.

February 4th 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

February 4th 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.