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03 February, 2007
A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
03 February, 2004
Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
03 February, 1999
In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
03 February, 1998
Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
03 February, 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.
03 February, 1997
Pakistans sixth general election is held.
03 February, 1991
The Italian Communist Party dissolves and splits into the Democratic Party of the Left and the Communist Refoundation Party.
03 February, 1989
After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.
03 February, 1989
A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
03 February, 1988
Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagans request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
03 February, 1984
Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission - Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
03 February, 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.
03 February, 1969
In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
03 February, 1967
Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
03 February, 1966
The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
03 February, 1959
A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.
03 February, 1957
Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
03 February, 1947
The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon, Alaska.
03 February, 1945
World War II: The Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.
03 February, 1945
World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.
03 February, 1944
World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
03 February, 1941
World War II: Nazi Germany forcibly restores Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy, France.
03 February, 1931
The Napier earthquake, New Zealands worst natural disaster, kills 258.
03 February, 1930
The Communist Party of Vietnam is esetablished.
03 February, 1923
The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
03 February, 1918
The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
03 February, 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.
03 February, 1916
Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
03 February, 1913
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
03 February, 1900
Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
03 February, 1870
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
03 February, 1867
Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan.
03 February, 1834
Wake Forest University is established.
03 February, 1830
The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol.
03 February, 1809
The Illinois Territory is created.
03 February, 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.
03 February, 1787
Shays Rebellion is crushed.
03 February, 1783
American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
03 February, 1706
During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
03 February, 1690
The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
03 February, 1509
The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
03 February, 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.
03 February, 1451
Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
03 February, 1377
more than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
03 February, 1112
Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.

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