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Today in History ~ February 3
Events1377 - Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
1547 - Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
1576 - Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
1815 - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1865 - President Lincoln meets with a delegation of Confederate officials to discuss a possible peace agreement [H]
1867 - Mutsuhito Became Emperor of Japan [H]
1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) which granted that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, was ratified.
1887 - To avoid disputed natl. elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1913 - 16th Amendment, allowing establishment of an income tax, became part of the U.S. Constitution after ratification by Wyoming.
1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1917 - The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany after a German declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages and max hrs
1947 - -81F (-63C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1951 - "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV
1953 - J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
1959 - American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
1959 - Plane crash kills Rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson "The Big Bopper" [H]
1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1964 - "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
1966 - The Soviet Union accomplished the first controlled landing on the moon, when the unmanned spacecraft Lunik 9 touches down on the Ocean of Storms.
1969 - The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1973 - President Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act.
1979 - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
1984 - A Long Beach, Calif., hospital announced the birth of the world's first baby conceived by embryo transplant.
1986 - President Reagan named a commission to probe the Challenger space shuttle explosion.
1992 - The angry rhetoric escalated between the United States and Japan when Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa accused American workers of lacking a "work ethic."
1992 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
1994 - The shuttle Discovery blasted off into space with the first Russian astronaut aboard a U.S. spacecraft.
1994 - President Clinton announced the United States was lifting its trade embargo against Vietnam.
1996 - A U.S. army sergeant became the first American killed on the Bosnia peacekeeping mission.
1998 - Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, the first female inmate to be put to death by the state in 135 years.
1998 - U.S. Marines jetfighter, flying low over mountains in Italy, severed a ski lift cable, sending 20 people in a cable car plunging to their deaths.
1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
1999 - Former Vice President Dan Quayle announced he was forming an exploratory committee to consider running for the Republican presidential nomination. He later decided not to run.
2002 - The New England Patriots upset the St. Louis Rams in one of the most exciting Super Bowl games
ever, 20-17, on Adam Vinatieri's 48-yard field goal as time ran out.
Birthdays Today
1368 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn (composer: Wedding March, Elijah, Fingal's Cave)
1811 - Horace Greeley (journalist: founded and edited The New York Tribune, "Go west, young man!"; politician: helped found the Republican Party, ran unsuccessfully for U.S. President [1872])
1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
1894 - Norman Rockwell (artist: widely known for his realistic, homespun cover art for The Saturday Evening Post)
1907 - James A. Michener (novelist: Tales of the South Pacific, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Journey, Hawaii, Iberia, Centennial, Mexico)
1919 - Joey Bishop (Gottlieb) (comedian, actor: The Joey Bishop Show, Liar's Club, The Naked and the Dead, Delta Force, Betsy's Wedding; member of the 'Rat Pack' with Sinatra)
1920 - Bibi (Margaret) Osterwald (actress: Bridget Loves Bernie, Bank Shot)
1926 - Art Arfons (drag racer: The Green Monster clocked at over 600 mph)
1926 - Shelley Berman (comedian, actor: The Best Man, Motorama, Rented Lips)
1928 - C V Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55)
1928 - Frankie Vaughn (Abelson) (singer: Garden of Eden, Tower of Strength)
1928 - Mr [Fred] Rogers, Latrobe, Pa, kid host (Mr Roger's Neighorhood)
1932 - Peggy Ann Garner (actress: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betrayal)
1935 - Jeremy Kemp (Edmund Walker) (actor: The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Prisoner of Zenda, Duel of Hearts)
1938 - Elijah Pitts (football: Green Bay Packers running back: Super Bowl I)
1938 - Emile Griffith (International Boxing Hall of Famer: the third fighter in history to hold both the welterweight and middleweight titles)
1938 - Victor Buono (actor: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Strangler, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Man from Atlantis)
1940 - Fran Tarkenton (football: Minnesota Vikings QB: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI, also NY Giants QB: holds individual NFL career records for passing yards gained, completions, attempts and touchdowns thrown)
1941 - Carol Mann (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1965])
1944 - Gale Gillingham (football: Green Bay Packers guard: Super Bowl I, II)
1945 - Bob Griese (football: Miami Dolphins QB: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII)
1947 - Joe Coleman (baseball)
1947 - Melanie (Safka) (singer: Brand New Key, Lay Down, Peace Will Come)
1950 - Morgan Fairchild (Patsy McClenny) (actress: Dallas, Flamingo Road, North and South, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Writer's Block, Falcon Crest)
1952 - Benny Malone (football)
1952 - Fred Lynn (baseball: Boston Red Sox outfielder: Baseball Writer's American League Award [1975]; Rookie of the Year [1975]; only player to win both in same year)
Famous deaths
0474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies
1451 - Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies
1468 - Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies
1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th pres (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington, D.C. at 67
1959 - Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day, Peggy Sue), dies in a plane crash at 22 which also killed JP Richardson and Richie Valens. Buddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. The movie 'The Buddy Holly Story' is depiction of his life.
1959 - J.P. Richardson ('The Big Bopper'), dies in a plane crash at 28. Noted for the smash hit, 'Chantilly Lace', writer of hits 'Running Bear' and 'White Lightning'
1959 - Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba), killed in plane crash at 17. Actor in the 1959 film, "Go Johnny Go". His hit 'La Bamba' was the title of a 1987 film depiction of his life. Start of fusion of Latin music and American rock.
1991 - Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69
1996 - Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice-Honeymooners), dies at 69
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