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Events on February 3

• 1637 During the tulip mania, the expected prices can no longer be achieved at a tulip auction in Haarlem. As a result, a price decline sets in and the speculation bubble bursts.
• 1870 The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified. It prohibits denying a male person the right to vote on account of their ethnic affiliation and skin color, as well as denying former slaves the right to vote.
• 1931 The New Zealand cities of Napier and Hastings are almost completely destroyed by an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on the Richter scale and subsequent major fires. More than 250 people are killed.
• 1945 In the second-heaviest bombing raid by the US Air Force on Berlin, large parts of the historic inner city in Berlin-Mitte and Kreuzberg are devastated; several thousand people die. Among them is also Roland Freisler, the presiding judge of the People's Court. He is succeeded by Wilhelm Crohne.
• 1947 The CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia adopts its Ahlener Programm, which is based on Christian socialism. This version is never put into practice; two years later, the social market economy gains the upper hand.
• 1959 American rock ’n’ roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper die together in a Beechcraft Bonanza plane crash shortly after takeoff near Mason City. The event is later referred to as “The Day the Music Died”.
• 1962 US President John F. Kennedy imposes a total trade embargo on Cuba.
• 1966 With the successful landing of the Soviet space probe Luna 9 in the Sea of Storms, the first soft landing of a probe on the Moon is achieved.
• 1972 In Sapporo, Japan, Emperor Hirohito opens the XI Olympic Winter Games.
• 1982 Due to tensions between the SPD and FDP over the federal budget, German Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt calls a vote of confidence in 1982 in accordance with the Basic Law (GG). The vote is held in the Bundestag on 5 February.
• 1994 From the Kennedy Space Center, the US space shuttle Discovery launches on the Space Shuttle mission STS-60. For the first time, a Russian cosmonaut is also aboard: Sergei Konstantinowitsch Krikaljow.
• 2019 The New England Patriots win the Super Bowl LIII 13:3 against the Los Angeles Rams, winning the title for the sixth time in their history.

Born on February 3

• 1851 Lina Hähnle, German founder of the League for Bird Protection
• 1851 Wilhelm Trübner, German painter
• 1870 Annette Kolb, German writer
• 1874 Gertrude Stein, American writer, publisher and art collector
• 1950 Morgan Fairchild, American actress
• 1960 Joachim Löw, German football player, club and national team coach
• 1970 Warwick Davis, British actor
• 1980 Markus Esser, German track and field athlete
• 1990 Sean Kingston, American singer
• 2002 Radu Drăgușin, Romanian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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