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Tuesday, 03 February 2026
1985 Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80 
1986 Wallis Warfield Simpson (Duchess of Windsor) dies.
1986 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89.
1988 E S "Bob" Newson, cricketer (S African fast bowler in 1930's), dies
1989 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China.
1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies.
1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
1990 West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July inaugural.
1990 Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
1991 J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies
1991 Bangladesh cyclone in Bangladesh killing 138866 people
1992 "Man of La Mancha" with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater.
1993 Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75.
1995 Douglas Gunsekera, banker, dies at 77
1996 Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62
1997 Pat Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69
2006 Three explosions in a tourist section of Dahab, Egypt kill 30 and injure over 115
2007 Abortion is legalized in Mexico City.
2007 Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
2013 33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
2018 US President Donald Trump hosts his inaugural state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron
2018 Suffragist Millicent Fawcett is the inaugural woman to have a statue erected in Parliament Square, London, England
2018 Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the inaugural time according to IFPI
2018 Ed Sheeran 's "÷" is the best-selling album of 2017, selling 6.1 million copies, according to IFPI.
2018 Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo arrested and charged with eight murders after being identified through genealogy websites.
2021 Following an international search and rescue effort, the Indonesian navy reports the sinking of KRI Nanggala with 53 crew members, the largest loss of life aboard a submarine since 2003.
2021 COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations administered worldwide exceeds 1 billion. Half of these doses have been administered in just three countries (the United States, China and India)
2023 Tucker Carlson , Fox News most popular prime-time host, is fired from the cable network [1]
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