On 3th February in History
1959 - Buddy Holly Plane Crash1986 : The Pope meets Mother Teresa, and visited her refuge for the sick and dying. Her Missionaries of Charity order now has 4,500 sisters in 133 countries providing food and shelter and hospices for the dying.
1870 - The Fifteenth Amendment Ratified.
1919 - League of Nations
1927 : President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill on this day that created the Federal Radio Commission. This is the organization that issues licenses in the present day for people to broadcast over the radio.
1931 - Earthquake Napier
1933 : Nine women fled back to their rooms during the time that a fire was taking place in a mental hospital. As a result, they had died, despite efforts of workers to help them out of the building.
1937 : President Roosevelt had presented a request to Congress for almost three billion dollars ($2,750,000,000) money for flood control improvements. This money was to be spent on improving dikes and levee systems in areas such as the Ohio River and lower Mississippi River.
1945 - Operation Thunderclap
1945 : 1,000 B-17's of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin.
1947 - Coldest Recorded Temperature In North America
1948 - Big Tail-fins
1950 : Klaus Fuchs one of the scientists who came to Britain following the end of World War II and helped develop the atomic bomb, is arrested for passing top-secret information about the bomb to the Soviet Union.
1953 - Jacques Cousteau
1959 - Increased Water Price
1966 - Luna 9
1973 - Vietnam Peace Treaty
1988 : The U.S. House of Representatives rejects Ronald Reagan's request for more than $36 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras.
1994 - Space Shuttle Discovery
1994 - Bill Clinton
1995 : An “alien” is someone who is not a citizen of a country in this case, not a citizen of the U.S. Aliens-expected as early as 1959 to register with the post office upon their arrival in this country. The instructions for doing so were given in a newspaper article printed on this day.
1998 - Italy Ski Lift Accident
2005 - Alberto Gonzalez
2006 : A judge has given a trial date for the White House aide who leaked the then-classified covert identity of a C.I.A. agent to the press. The trial of Lewis Libby will be on January 8th, 2007.
2006 - Egypt Ferry Sinks
2007 - Iraq Suicide Bomber
2007 - Obama Announces Presidential Intentions in Springfield, IL.
2008 : During a robbery at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois a gunman kills five women who'd been herded to the back room of the store during a robbery attempt.
2008 - Texan Mayor Resigns
2009 - Tom Daschle Withdraws Nomination as U.S. Health Secretary
2009 - Secretary Clinton Meets with Foreign Ministers
2009 - J.K. Rowling receives the Légion d'Honneur
2010 - Avatar Becomes Highest Grossing Film in the U.S.
2011 - Large Winter Storm Hits the United States and Canada
2012 - Motorola Patent Forces Apple to Pull Devices in Germany
2014 : Russia warned leaders of the Ukrainian anti-government protesters against continuing their protests. The Russian Foreign Ministry made a statement about their concerns over the situation in Ukraine and encourage opposition leaders to negotiate with the government.
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