{"id":2633,"date":"2019-02-03T06:26:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T00:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:12:32","slug":"history-of-3-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-3-february\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 3 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 3 February<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1938\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0March of Dimes\u00a0is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by\u00a0President\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1944\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0World War II: Top Ace Major\u00a0Greg &#8220;Pappy&#8221; Boyington\u00a0is shot down in his\u00a0Vought F4U Corsair\u00a0by Captain\u00a0Masajiro Kawato\u00a0flying a\u00a0Mitsubishi A6M Zero.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1945\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 World War II: Admiral\u00a0Chester W. Nimitz\u00a0is placed in command of all\u00a0U.S. Naval forces\u00a0in preparation for planned assaults against\u00a0Iwo Jima\u00a0and\u00a0Okinawa\u00a0in Japan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1946\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Popular\u00a0Canadian American\u00a0jockey\u00a0George Woolf\u00a0dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual\u00a0George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award\u00a0is created to honor him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1947\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Proceedings of the\u00a0U.S. Congress\u00a0are televised for the first time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1949\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the\u00a0central bank\u00a0of the\u00a0Philippines, is established.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1953<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Frances P. Bolton\u00a0and her son,\u00a0Oliver\u00a0from\u00a0Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1956\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A fire damages the top part of the\u00a0Eiffel Tower.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1957\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0Hamilton Watch Company\u00a0introduces the first electric\u00a0watch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1958\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0West Indies Federation\u00a0is formed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1959\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Alaska\u00a0is admitted as the 49th\u00a0U.S. state.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1961\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with\u00a0Cuba\u00a0over the latter&#8217;s nationalization of American assets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1961<\/strong> \u2013 The\u00a0SL-1\u00a0nuclear reactor is destroyed by a\u00a0steam explosion\u00a0in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1961<\/strong> \u2013 A protest by agricultural workers in\u00a0Baixa de Cassanje,\u00a0Portuguese Angola,\u00a0turns into a revolt, opening the\u00a0Angolan War of Independence, the first of the\u00a0Portuguese Colonial Wars.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1962\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Pope John XXIII\u00a0excommunicates\u00a0Fidel Castro.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1976\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights\u00a0entered into force.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1977\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Apple Computer\u00a0is incorporated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0United States invasion of Panama:\u00a0Manuel Noriega, former leader of\u00a0Panama, surrenders to American forces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 In Moscow, Russia,\u00a0George H. W. Bush, and\u00a0Boris Yeltsin\u00a0sign the second\u00a0Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty\u00a0(START).<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 More than seven million people from the former\u00a0apartheid\u00a0Homelands\u00a0receive South African citizenship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0<i>Mars Polar Lander<\/i>\u00a0is launched by NASA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Final daily edition of the\u00a0<i>Peanuts<\/i>\u00a0comic strip.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter\u00a0<i>Karine A<\/i>\u00a0in the\u00a0Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Flash Airlines Flight 604\u00a0crashes into the\u00a0Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized\u00a0payment system\u00a0Bitcoin, called the\u00a0<i>Genesis block<\/i>, was established by the creator of the system,\u00a0Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Boko Haram\u00a0militants\u00a0raze\u00a0the entire town of\u00a0Baga\u00a0in north-east\u00a0Nigeria, starting the\u00a0Baga massacre\u00a0and killing as many as 2,000 people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2016\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Following the fallout caused by the execution of\u00a0Nirmal-Nimr,\u00a0Iran\u00a0ends its\u00a0diplomatic relations\u00a0with Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Computer analysts report two major\u00a0security vulnerabilities, named &#8220;Meltdown&#8221; and &#8220;Spectre,&#8221; affecting the microprocessors of almost all computers in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday\u2019s Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1987\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Reto Berra, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Ikechi Anya, Scottish-Nigerian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0J. R. Hildebrand, American race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Adas Ju\u0161kevi\u010dius, Lithuanian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ben Matulino, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0K\u014dhei Uchimura, Japanese artistic gymnast<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anthony Wordsworth, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Yoichiro Kakitani, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0\u00d6zg\u00fcr \u00c7ek, Turkish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0S\u00e9bastien Faure, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dane Gagai, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Doug McDermott, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sio Siua Taukeiaho, New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013 Sandra Zaniewska, a Polish tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Kevin Ware, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Kim Seol-Hyun, South Korean singer and dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 3 February 1938\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0March of Dimes\u00a0is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by\u00a0President\u00a0Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1944\u00a0\u2013\u00a0World War II: Top Ace Major\u00a0Greg &#8220;Pappy&#8221; Boyington\u00a0is shot down in his\u00a0Vought F4U Corsair\u00a0by Captain\u00a0Masajiro Kawato\u00a0flying a\u00a0Mitsubishi A6M Zero. 1945\u00a0\u2013 World War II: Admiral\u00a0Chester W. 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