February 3
People born on this day are Aquarius.
- 1971
New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
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The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
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Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
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Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
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After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
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A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
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Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
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Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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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.
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One hundred five people are killed when Kam Air Flight 904 crashes in the Pamir Mountains in Afghanistan.
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A school shooting in Moscow, Russia leaves two people dead and one wounded.
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Ohio train derailment: A freight train containing vinyl chloride and other hazardous materials derails and burns in East Palestine, Ohio, United States, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air and contaminating the Ohio River.
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2004Rei, Japanese rapper and singer
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2004Scoot Henderson, American basketball player
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2001Tre Mann, American basketball player
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1999Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress
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1998Tyler Huntley, American football player
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1998Isaiah Roby, American basketball player
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1998Aurélien Giraud, French skateboarder
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1995Tao Tsuchiya, Japanese actress
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1994Rougned Odor, Venezuelan baseball player
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1992James White, American football player
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1990Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter
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1989Jia, Chinese singer and actress
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