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Tuesday, 03 February 2026
1995 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84 
1996 Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73.
1997 Damage from recent floods in California is pushing the billion dollar mark and could climb higher once final figures are in.
1997 Minuteman III launches
1997 The Maine Yankee nuclear station has been placed on a U.S. government watch list of plants needing increased regulatory attention. The plant has experienced more than a year ofsafety and maintenance problems.
1998 Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres
1998 The U.S. and Japan sign a pact allowing Americans to fly to Japan and other Asian destinations from more U.S. cities
1998 Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38
2005 In this year, A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents release a video claiming to have shot the aircraft down using a missile.2007 Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007.
2005 The inaugural free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 take place.
2007 In this year, Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007.
2013 South Korea successfully launches its rocket Naro-1 which was carrying a scientific satellite.
2017 Scientists in central China reveal oldest known human ancestor - 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus in a fossil.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the sixth time that this measure has been invoked since 2009.
2023 In this year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that Russia has begun its "big revenge" with assaults around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine after a couple months of stalemate [1]
2023 A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, results in the deaths of 84 people and injures over 220 others
2023 Prime Minister of Fiji Sitiveni Rabuka confirms that Kiribati will rejoin the Pacific Islands Forum after leaving the organization the previous year.February 1 - Lebanese liquidity crisis: The central bank of Lebanon devalues the Lebanese pound by 90% amid an ongoing financial crisis.
2024 Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan , already in jail on corruption charges, sentenced to a further 10 years for leaking state secrets [1].
2025 PostNord, the Danish postal service, formally ends letter deliveries entirely, shifting exclusively to packages; the government agency was established in 1624 [1].
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