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Notable anniversaries in history for today: February 3
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of George Thomas "Tige" Anderson; Brigadier General (Confederate Army).
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Nathan George "Shanks" Evans; Brigadier General (Confederacy) (dies 1868).
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Franklyn Dyall in Liverpool, England; actor (Easy Virtue).
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Gertrude Stein in Pennsylvania, USA; author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas).
- 100th: 1924 - Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Vladimir Lenin).
- 100th: 1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at age 67.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Jeremy Kemp in Chesterfield, England; actor (Winds of War).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Trisha Noble in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; actress (Deadline, Strike Force, Executive Suite).
- 70th: 1954 - Jeen van den Berg win Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32).
- 60th: 1964 - "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold.
- 60th: 1964 - Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools.
- 50th: 1974 - Sandra Palmer win LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of first baby conceived by embryo transplant, in Long Beach, California.
- 40th: 1984 - Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England.
- 40th: 1984 - Mattel announces it is selling its Intellivision video game business for US$20 million in cash to a group lead by Terrence Valeski, an executive of Mattel Electronics.
- 40th: 1984 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th space shuttle mission.
- 30th: 1994 - President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam.
- 30th: 1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit.
- 30th: 1994 - William J. Perry is sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense.
- 20th: 2004 - The US Central Intelligence Agency admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- 20th: 2004 - Jóannes Eidesgaard becomes Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
- 15th: 2009 - Iran launches Omid, a domestically-made research and telecom satellite into orbit for the first time.
- 15th: 2009 - Spectrum Brands, maker of Ray-O-Vac batteries, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US.
- 15th: 2009 - Colombian Farc rebels release former provincial governor Alan Jara, held hostage since July 2001.
- 5th: 2019 - Pope Francis arrives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, becoming the first pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
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