Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 3
This is a list of selected February 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Emperor Meiji -
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Mossel Bay in 2006 -
Wreckage of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper -
Monument to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper near Clear Lake, Iowa -
Painting of the Battle of San Lorenzo -
José de San Martín -
Steve Jobs
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Setsubun in Japan; | date in infobox doesn't agree with date in the lead |
| Feast day of Dom Justo Takayama in Japan and the Philippines; | citation check |
| 1488 – Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias landed in Mossel Bay, becoming the first known European to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and the southern tip of Africa. | lots of CN tags (5) |
| 1509 – Turkish–Portuguese War: Portugal defeated a joint fleet of Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire, the Zamorin of Calicut and the Sultan of Gujarat at the Battle of Diu off the coast of Diu, India. | unreferenced section |
| 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom captured Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay, from the Spanish Empire. | needs more footnotes; Montevideo not bold because it's not an appropriate target article |
| 1815 – The first factory for the industrial production of cheese opened in Switzerland. | date not in article, refimprove section |
| 1867 – Crown Prince Mutsuhito succeeded his father Kōmei as Emperor of Japan, taking the title Meiji. | needs more footnotes |
| 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, allowing Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on census results. | refimprove section |
| 1916 – A fire destroyed the Centre Block, the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario. | needs update |
| 1931 – New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster, the 7.9 MW Hawke's Bay earthquake, struck, killing 256. | refimprove section |
| 1966 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 became the first space probe to land on the Moon and transmit pictures from the lunar surface. | refimprove section |
| 1967 – Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in Australia, sparking public protests across the country. | multiple issues |
| 1971 – New York City Police officer Frank Serpico, who had reported police corruption to the department and the press, was shot and wounded under questionable circumstances. | lead too short |
| 1984 – A woman under the care of Dr. John Buster of the Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, gave birth to a baby that resulted from the first successful embryo transfer from one person to another. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – Alfredo Stroessner', whose rule as president of Paraguay for 35 years was marked by uninterrupted repression in his country, was overthrown in a military coup by Andrés Rodríguez. | Stroessner: refimprove; Rodríguez: unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: British forces captured the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius after a brief skirmish.
- 1813 – Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment defeated Spanish royalist forces in the Battle of San Lorenzo.
- 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
- 1930 – The Communist Party of Indochina, the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina merged to form the Communist Party of Vietnam.
- 1933 – Adolf Hitler announced that the conquest of Lebensraum in Eastern Europe, and its "ruthless Germanisation", were the geopolitical objectives of Reich foreign policy.
- 1941 – Second World War: British and Free French forces began the Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian Eritrea.
- 1953 – Hundreds of native creoles known as forros were massacred on São Tomé Island by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners.
- 1959 – American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash shortly after takeoff from Mason City Municipal Airport in Iowa.
- 1986 – Steve Jobs purchased Pixar from Lucasfilm and launched it as an independent computer-animation studio.
- 1998 – Despite a large international movement advocating the commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment, Karla Faye Tucker became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984.
- 1998 – A U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler inadvertently severed a cable supporting a cable-car gondola in Cavalese, Italy, killing 20 passengers.
- 2014 – Russia's first school shooting took place when a student opened fire at School No. 263 in Moscow, resulting in the deaths of a teacher and a police officer.
- Born/died this day: | Scipione Rebiba |b|1504| Coloman, King of Hungary |d|1116| Caroline von Wolzogen |b|1763| George Crabbe |d|1832| Giuseppe Moretti |b|1857| Isaac Baker Brown |d|1873| Dolly Rudeman |b|1902
February 3: Feast day of Saint Laurence of Canterbury (Western Christianity); Four Chaplains' Day in the United States (1943)
James I of Aragon entering Murcia
- 1266 – Mudéjar revolt: King James I of Aragon entered the Muslim-held city of Murcia (depicted), conquered following its surrender three days earlier.
- 1852 – The Argentine Confederation was defeated in the Platine War by an alliance consisting of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes.
- 1918 – At 11,675 ft (3,559 m) long, the Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco opened as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at the time.
- 2010 – An edition of L'Homme qui marche I, a bronze sculpture by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million, setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
- Horace Greeley (b. 1811)
- Tatyana Velikanova (b. 1932)
- C. N. Annadurai (d. 1969)
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