Monday, 3 February 2014

NTB's Today in History- Feb. 3...

February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days remaining until the end of the year (332 in leap years).

Events and births in February 3 via history are...

*1112 – Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.

*1377 – More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).

*1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.

*1870: Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution(the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. The oldest written national constitution in use, the Constitution
defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens.) ratified.
On this day in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified,
guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race and intending to ensure, with the Fourteenth Amendment, the civil rights of former slaves.

*1690-: Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the American colonies.

*1931 – The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.

*1972 – The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.

*1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.

*1990 – Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter, was born on this day.. On NTB, we say Happy Bornday to him...

*1976- the following Nigeria states were created on this day, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Imo, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Plateau, Sokoto, and FCT-Abuja...

*1959 -U.S.A. Buddy Holly Tuesday, 3rd February, 1959 : Rock 'n' Roll singers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) died in a plane crash today along with the pilot when their chartered plane went down near Mason
City, Iowa. The deaths are immortalized in the "The Day the Music Died" by Don McLean.

*2007- Iraq 2007 Iraq Suicide Bomber Saturday, Feb. 3rd, 2007 : A Suicide bomber with a truck loaded with high explosives commits suicide in a Baghdad market killing more than 130 mainly Shiite Muslims.

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