1894 Feb 3, Norman Rockwell, artist and illustrator, was born. He painted scenes of small-town America. Most of his work appeared in the The Saturday Evening Post. Feb 3, Colombian troops clashed with U.S. Marines in Panama. Feb 3, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that union-sponsored boycotts were illegal, and applied the Sherman Antitrust Act to labor as well as capital.
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The 16th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified. Feb 3, The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, which had announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. A German submarine sank the U.S. liner Housatonic off coast of Sicily. Feb 3, The Allies demanded that 890 German military leaders stand trial for war crimes. The 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, died in Washington at age 68.