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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 21, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 474,144 hours 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.
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 7 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 4,061 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 3 Historical Events
- 1509 –The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
- 1690 –The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –The USAT Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survived. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
- 1961 –A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
- 1961 –The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a “Doomsday Plane” is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States’ bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC’s command post.
- 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.
- 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?
- 1807 –Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891)
- 1912 –Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990)
- 1927 –Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
- 1933 –Paul Sarbanes, American politician
- 1940 –Fran Tarkenton, American football player
- 1959 –Ferzan Özpetek, Turkish film director
- 1961 –Jay Adams, American skateboarder
- 1974 –Julie Meadows, American pornographic actress
- 1987 –Angela Fong, Canadian professional wrestler, model, cheerleader
- 1990 –Sean Kingston, Jamaican-American singer
Who died on February 3?
- 1014 –Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, England and Norway (b. c. 960)
- 1566 –George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
- 1889 –Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)
- 1935 –Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
- 1947 –Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887)
- 1959 –The Day the Music Died: J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)
- 1959 –The Day the Music Died: Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
- 1969 –Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder (b. 1920)
- 1991 –Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
- 1991 –Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
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