What are the important events that happened on February 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 3: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 3 is the 34th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 21, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,975,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘triacontatetragon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 379 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,427 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 3 Historical Events
- 1706 –During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
- 1830 –The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
- 1852 –Justo José de Urquiza defeats Juan Manuel de Rosas at the Battle of Caseros.
- 1870 –The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1900 –Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
- 1945 –World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
- 1984 –John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
- 1984 –Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 2030 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on February 3?
- 1872 –Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
- 1926 –Shelley Berman, American comedian
- 1945 –Bob Griese, American football player
- 1947 –Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
- 1959 –Ferzan Özpetek, Turkish film director
- 1965 –Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
- 1969 –Retief Goosen, South African golfer
- 1974 –Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress
- 1976 –Tim Heidecker, American comedian
- 1984 –Sara Carbonero, Spanish TV presenter and journalist
Who died on February 3?
- 619 –Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1014 –Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, England and Norway (b. c. 960)
- 1428 –Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
- 1619 –Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
- 1832 –George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754)
- 1959 –The Day the Music Died: Roger Peterson, pilot (b. 1937)
- 1960 –Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
- 1975 –Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
- 2003 –Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (b. 1962)
- 2010 –Regina, Crown Princess of Austria (b. 1925)
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