Feb 3 1991 Standard U.S. letter postage goes to $.29 Feb 3 1969 Boris Karloff, actor, dies Feb 3 1966 First rocket assisted controlled landing on the moon; by the Soviet Luna IX Feb 3 1959 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper die in plane crash Feb 3 1924 Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, dies Feb 3 1919 The first League of Nations meeting is held Feb 3 1919 Edward Pickering, astronomer, dies in Cambridge, Massachusetts Feb 3 1917 Germany and the U.S. sever diplomatic relations Feb 3 1913 The 17th Amendment is ratified which institutes a federal income tax Feb 3 1889 Belle Starr, outlaw, is shot and killed near Eufaula, Oklahoma Feb 3 1862 Jean Baptiste Biot, French physicist, founder of the science of polarimetry, dies Feb 3 1851 Brigham Young appointed governor of the Utah Territory
Birthdays
Feb 3 1940 Fran Tarkenton, football quarterback who set career records for most number of completed passes (3686) and most number of touchdown passes (342) Feb 3 1894 Norman Rockwell, artist and illustrator, is born in New York City Feb 3 1890 Paul Scherrer, physicist and developer of X-ray diffraction methods, is born in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland