Historical Events In February - 03

1972  On February - 03 john Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79  

1973  Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 &peaks at #6 on February - 03.  

1973  President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law on February - 03.  

1973  Edward Lockspeiser, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1975  On this day in history john Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55  

1976  Neville Lindsay, cricketer (S Afr batsman in Test v Aust 1921), dies on February - 03.  

1977  Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1979  On this day in history "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart  

1979  On February - 03 uS female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne  

1979  On this day in history uS male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner  

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1979  Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies on this day in history.  

1980  Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy on February - 03.  

1981  On February - 03 gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway  

1982  Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission on this day in history.  

1982  On February - 03 greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR  

1982  Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder on this day in history.  

1983  US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners on this day in history.  

1984  On this day in history 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched  

1984  On February - 03 the first baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach CA  

1984  Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies on February - 03.  

1985  On February - 03 "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances  

1986  President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident on February - 03.  

1987  San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup on February - 03.  

1989  On this day in history twenty villages evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster  

1989  Uruguayan president Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown in a military coup on February - 03.  

1989  John Cassavetes, actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1991  Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1992  Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs" on this day in history.  

1992  On this day in history labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends  

1992  On this day in history maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week  

1993  On this day in history cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments  

1993  Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA on this day in history.  

1993  On February - 03 general Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving  

1993  On February - 03 karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69  

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1338  On this day in history birth of jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)  

1368  On this day in history birth of charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)  

1525  On February - 03 birth of giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer  

1648  Louis Bouteiller, composer was born on February - 03.  

1655  Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized was born on this day in history.  

1677  On February - 03 birth of jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)  

1690  On February - 03 birth of richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)  

1721  Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773) was born on February - 03.  

0474  Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies on February - 03.  

0619  Death of Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.  

0699  Death of Saint Werburgh on February - 03.  

0865  Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies on February - 03.  

1014  Death of King Sweyn I of Denmark on February - 03.  

1116  On this day in history death of king Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)  

1399  John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile & Leon, dies at 58 on February - 03.  

1428  On February - 03 death of ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)