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Tuesday, 03 February 2026
1984 Doris May, actress (Peck's Bad Boy), dies at 81 of heart failure. 
1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as inaugural woman Conservative rabbi.
1985 Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies.
1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced and unaided by wind, is inaugural to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat CA.
1986 Kristeen Garcia is born
1986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator
1986 Elisabeth Bergner, dies at 85
1987 Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2000th TV performance.
1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
1989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81.
1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts).
1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million.
1990 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting.
1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be are discovered in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest.
1992 The inaugural Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest.
1992 Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies.
1993 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands.
1993 Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1993 NBC TV airs the final episode of the hit comedy Cheers.
1993 In this year, Parma claims 33rd Europe Cup II.
1994 Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91
1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59).
1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea.
1997 Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is inaugural to swim from Cuba to Florida
1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
2005 An election was held in the Cayman Islands 7 months later than originally scheduled due to Hurricane Ivan. It resulted in a change of government, with the United Democratic Party giving four seats to the then-opposition People's Progressive Movement in the 15 member Legislative Assembly
2007 The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 is held in Helsinki, resulting in Serbia's inaugural victory.
2010 Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board
2012 The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon.
2012 aug 12 - The 2012 World Expo takes place in Yeosu, South Korea.
2013 Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints
2014 Voters in Ukraine reject rule from Kiev.
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