WillDekkard
02-03-2011, 05:03 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - February 3rd
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* 1112 Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
* 1377 More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
* 1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
* 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.
* 1509 The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
* 1534 The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
* 1637 Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
* 1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
* 1706 During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
* 1781 American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Saint Eustatius.
* 1783 American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
* 1787 Shays' Rebellion is crushed.
* 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.
* 1809 The Illinois Territory is created.
* 1813 The Battle of San Lorenzo takes place. It is the first military action of Josι de San Martνn's cavalry ιlite unit Granaderos a Caballo at the Argentine War of Independence.
* 1830 The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
* 1834 Wake Forest University is established.
* 1852 The Battle of Caseros marks the end of the hegemony of Buenos Aires Province Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas over the Argentine Confederation.
* 1867 Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan.
* 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.
* 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
* 1916 Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
* 1917 World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
* 1918 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
* 1930 The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
* 1931 The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
* 1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
* 1947 The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
* 1957 Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
* 1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
* 1959 A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
* 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
* 1961 The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" was 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.
* 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.
* 1966 The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
* 1967 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
* 1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
* 1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
* 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.
* 1988 Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
* 1989 After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
* 1989 A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
* 1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
* 1996 The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
* 1998 Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
* 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.
* 2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
* 2010 A cast of the sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sells for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record for most expensive sculpture sold at a public auction.
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Happy Birthday Sara !
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Sara Carbonero
Sara Carbonero Arιvalo (born 3 February 1984)
Spanish TV presenter - "The Sexiest Reporter in the World"
This Date in History - February 3rd
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1112 Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
* 1377 More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
* 1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
* 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.
* 1509 The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
* 1534 The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
* 1637 Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
* 1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
* 1706 During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
* 1781 American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Saint Eustatius.
* 1783 American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
* 1787 Shays' Rebellion is crushed.
* 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.
* 1809 The Illinois Territory is created.
* 1813 The Battle of San Lorenzo takes place. It is the first military action of Josι de San Martνn's cavalry ιlite unit Granaderos a Caballo at the Argentine War of Independence.
* 1830 The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
* 1834 Wake Forest University is established.
* 1852 The Battle of Caseros marks the end of the hegemony of Buenos Aires Province Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas over the Argentine Confederation.
* 1867 Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan.
* 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.
* 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
* 1916 Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
* 1917 World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
* 1918 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
* 1930 The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
* 1931 The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
* 1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
* 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.
* 1945 World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
* 1947 The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
* 1957 Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
* 1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
* 1959 A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
* 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
* 1961 The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" was 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.
* 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.
* 1966 The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
* 1967 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
* 1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
* 1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
* 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.
* 1988 Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
* 1989 After a stroke two weeks previous, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
* 1989 A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
* 1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
* 1996 The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
* 1998 Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
* 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.
* 2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
* 2010 A cast of the sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti sells for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting the record for most expensive sculpture sold at a public auction.
end of c/p
Happy Birthday Sara !
http://www.hdtvtalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6010&d=1296709242
Sara Carbonero
Sara Carbonero Arιvalo (born 3 February 1984)
Spanish TV presenter - "The Sexiest Reporter in the World"