3 Februar

The 3rd o Februar is the 34t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 331 days ti come (332 in lowp years).

 Events 
 1488 - Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu Dias lands at Mossel Bay, Sooth Africae.
 1830 - The Lunnon Protocol establishes the full unthirldom o Greece.
 1917 - Warld War I: The Unitit States breaks diplomatic relations wi Germany.
 1931 - A magnitude 7.8 yirdquauk hits the Hawke's Bay area o New Zealand, killin 256 fowk.
 1959 - "Day the Music Died" plane crash in Iowa kills 3 muisickers, incluidin Buddy Holly.
 1960 - Breetish Prime meenister Harold Macmillan speaks o "Winds o Change" in Africae.
 1972 - Stairt o a 7-day blizzard in Iran, killin 4,000 fowk.
 1972 - Stairt o the 1972 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Sapporo, Japan.
 1976 - The caipital ceety o Mozambique chynges its name frae Lourenco Marques tae Maputo.
 1989 - Overthrow o Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay.
 1998 - Cavalese Cable Car disaster: A low-flyin Unitit States militar plane cuts through a cable o a Cable Car line in northren Italy, killin 20 fowk.
 2006 - A Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea, killin 1,414 fowk.
 2007 - A mercat bombin in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 135 fowk.
 2015 - Sergio Mattarella becomes Preses o Italy.
 2018 - Angus Robertson propales his demission as Deputy leader o the Scots Naitional Pairty.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Belgium records its first COVID-19 case.
 2021 - Canadae becomes the first kintra tae designate the far-richt Proud Boys as a terrorist group.

 Births 
 1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, Queen Consort o Fraunce (d. 1378)
 1830 - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1903)
 1953 − Steve Maharey, New Zealand politeecian
 1960 - Joachim Löw, German fitbaa manager
 1978 - Joan Capdevila, Spainyie fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1468 − Johann Gutenberg, German inventor (b. 1398)
 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1856)
 1959 - Buddy Holly, American sangster (b. 1936)
 2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born American evolutionary biologist (b. 1904)
 2014 - Joan Mondale, Seicont Lady o the Unitit States (b. 1930)
 2014 - Bill Sinkin, American activist (b. 1913)
 2016 - Joe Alaskey, American actor (b. 1952)

 Halidays 
 Heroes' Day (Mozambique)
 Setsubun (Japan)

Category:Days o the year
 03