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On This Day In History for February 3, 2021
This is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days remaining in 2021.
- It was on this date in 1690, that The colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas.
- That same date in 1918, The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California began service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
- It was also this date in 1959 that Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson was killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
- On February 3, 1966, The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon..
- Also today in 1984, Space Shuttle mission STS-41 -B was launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- Also on February 3, 1994, Space Shuttle mission STS-60 was launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle..
- Also today in 1995, Astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- English scientist, Gideon Mantell, born on this date in 1790.
- Felix Mendelssohn, the German pianist, composer, and conductor was born 212 years ago today.
- Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 was born on that same date in 1859.
- American painter and illustrator, Norman Rockwell, born on this date in 1894.
- Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster was born on that same date in 1904.
- Also born on that same date in 1950, American actress, Morgan Fairchild.
- American mathematician, geneticist, and academic, Eric Lander is 64 today.
- Also turning 51 today is English actor, producer, and screenwriter Warwick Davis.
- Also born on that same date in 1984, American fraudster, founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes.
Listener birthdays
- 3 – Euan Campbell McGregor – Scotland, UK
- 4 – Stewe Lundin
- 7 – Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN
- 7 – Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA
- 8 – Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK
- 9 – Podcast Mike Willsfrom Minnesota
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 3, 2021
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News
- High School Students Build A Back To The Future Monument (kotaku.com)
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landing will be must-see TV – CNET
- Earth is about to lose its second moon, forever | Live Science
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