February 3
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Wednesday December 25, 2024
February 3 in history:
- 1995: Astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a NASA spacecraft with the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on a mission that lasted until February 11.
- 1989: The repressive regime of Alfredo Stroessner, who had ruled Paraguay for 35 years, was overthrown in a military coup.
- 1966: The Soviet space probe Luna 9 made the first survivable landing on the Moon and sent several television images of the surface back to the Earth.
- 1959: A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, killed the rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as their pilot.
- 1917: In response to the German announcement that it was resuming unrestricted submarine warfare, President Woodrow Wilson severed U.S. diplomatic relations with Germany; the United States was soon to enter World War I.
- 1821, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to obtain (1849) a medical degree in the United States, was born in England.
- 1468: Johann Gutenberg, the German goldsmith who is credited with the invention and development in Europe of printing from movable type, died.
