130 sourced historical events are currently published for February 3. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
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On 3 February 1047, Emperor Henry III accepted Drogo of Hauteville’s homage in southern Italy and confirmed his possession of the territories he already controlled as count of Apulia.
This is imperial recognition and investiture. Drogo had already succeeded his brother as count in 1046.
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The Battle of Oslo was fought outside of Oslo on the night of 3 February 1161 between Haakon II of Norway and Inge I of Norway during the civil war era in Norway. As the son of Ingiríðr Ragnvaldsdóttir and king Harald Gille (making him the only legitimate son of Gille), Inge had been named king of Norway after Gille was killed by Sigurd Slembe.
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The Battle of Diu, sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Chaul, was a naval battle fought on 3 February 1509 in the Arabian Sea, near the port of Diu, India, between the Portuguese Empire and a joint fleet of the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut with support of Ottomans, the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). The Portuguese victory was critical: the Mamluks and Arabs retreated, easing the Portuguese strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean to route trade down the Cape of Good Hope, circumventing the traditional spice route controlled by the Arabs and the Venetians through the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
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The Battle of Runafer (in Polish: Bitwa pod Kirempą) took place on 3 February 1567 near Reval (now Tallinn) during the Polish–Swedish War (1563–1568). The clash took place between Swedish forces led by Henrik Klasson Horn af Kanckas and Polish forces under the command of fältöverste Talwosa. The Swedes suffered defeat, losing 2,000 men.
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On February 3, 1583, three English ships led by Edward Fenton and three Spanish galleons led by Andrés de Equino began a naval engagement off São Vicente in Portuguese Brazil. Fighting continued into the following morning, with a pause during heavy rain. The Spanish force withdrew after one galleon sank and another was badly damaged. Fenton's expedition then tried unsuccessfully to resume trading along the Brazilian coast before returning to England.
This engagement preceded the Anglo-Spanish War usually dated 1585–1604.
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A strong earthquake damaged Algiers and nearby settlements. Historical accounts record later shocks, and estimates of the death toll vary.
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(For the battle in the 1982 Lebanon War, see Battle of the Beaufort (1982).) The Battle of Beaufort, also known as the Battle of Port Royal Island, was fought on February 3, 1779, near Beaufort, South Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. The battle took place not long after British forces consolidated control around Savannah, Georgia, which they had captured in December 1778. Brigadier General Augustine Prevost sent 200 British regulars to seize Port Royal Island at the mouth of the Broad River in South Carolina in late January 1779.
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The Battle of Young's House (also known as the Battle of Young's Corners, Affair at Youngs House, and Action at Youngs Corners) was a skirmish fought outside New York City between British and American forces on February 3, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. A British force attacked and destroyed a Continental Army outpost in Westchester County, New York.
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The Battle of Faenza, also known as the Battle of Castel Bolognese on 3 February 1797, saw 7,000 troops from the Papal Army commanded by Michelangelo Alessandro Colli-Marchi face 9,000 troops from the French Army under the command of Claude-Victor Perrin. The veteran French troops quickly overran the Papal army, inflicting disproportionate casualties.
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The Battle of Montevideo took place between the British and Spanish Empires during the Napoleonic Wars, in which British forces captured the city of Montevideo. It formed part of the British invasions of the River Plate. Locally, it is known as the siege of Montevideo (Spanish: Sitio de Montevideo).
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The Battle of Allenstein (or Olsztyn), also known as the Battle of Jonkowo (or Jankowo, Inkowo, Jonkendorf) and the Battle of Bergfriede, was a military engagement during the early stages of the 1807 Fourth Coalition Napoleonic campaign. While the battle resulted in a French field victory and allowed for a successful pursuit of the Russian army, it failed to produce the decisive engagement that Napoleon was seeking.
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The 10th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1807, to March 4, 1809, during the seventh and eighth years of Thomas Jefferson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1800 census; both chambers had an overwhelming Democratic-Republican majority.
The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
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The Territory of Illinois was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 1, 1809, until December 3, 1818, when the southern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Illinois. Its capital was the former French village of Kaskaskia on the Mississippi River (which is still a part of the State of Illinois).
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The action of 3 February 1812 was a single-ship action fought off the western coast of Haiti between the British Royal Navy and a Haitian warship during the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought against the background of the collapse of the First Empire of Haiti in 1806 after the Haitian Revolution.
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The Battle of San Lorenzo was fought on February 3, 1813 in San Lorenzo, Argentina, then part of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. A Spanish Royalist force under the command of Antonio Zabala was defeated by the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers, under the command of José de San Martín. This battle was the baptism of fire for this military unit, and for San Martín in the Spanish American wars of independence. Montevideo, a royalist stronghold during the Argentine War of Independence, was under siege by José Gervasio Artigas. Those in the city raided population centres along the nearby rivers for supplies.
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The London Protocol of 1830, also known as the Protocol of Independence (Greek: Πρωτόκολλο της Ανεξαρτησίας) in Greek historiography, was a treaty signed between France, Russia, and Great Britain on 3 February 1830. It was the first official international diplomatic act that recognized Greece as a fully sovereign and independent state, separate from the Ottoman Empire.
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The Battle of Caseros was fought near the town of Caseros, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, on 3 February 1852, between the Army of Buenos Aires commanded by Juan Manuel de Rosas and the Grand Army (Ejército Grande) led by Justo José de Urquiza. The forces of Urquiza, caudillo and governor of Entre Ríos, defeated Rosas, who fled to the United Kingdom. This defeat marked a sharp division in the history of Argentina. As provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation, Urquiza sponsored the creation of the Constitution in 1853, and became the first constitutional President of Argentina in 1854.
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The Platine War (Spanish: Guerra Platina, Portuguese: Guerra do Prata, Guerra contra Oribe e Rosas; 18 August 1851 – 3 February 1852) was fought between the Argentine Confederation and an alliance consisting of the Empire of Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes, with the participation of the Republic of Paraguay as Brazil's co-belligerent and ally.
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On February 3, 1857, the New York State Legislature elected Republican Preston King to the United States Senate. Incumbent Hamilton Fish did not seek re-election.
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General elections were held in Italy on 27 January 1861, with a second round on 3 February. The newly elected Parliament first convened in Turin on 4 March 1861, where, thirteen days later, it declared the unification of the country as the Kingdom of Italy. The elections were carried out according to the 1848 electoral law of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in which only literate men over the age of 25 and paying a certain level of taxation were allowed to vote.
This entry records the second round, as dated in the source infobox.
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Battle of Węgrów was one of the most important skirmishes of January Uprising in the Russian Partition of Poland. It took place February 3, 1863 near Węgrów in east Masovia. On January 22, Polish partisans liberated a town from Russians forces. Here Poles established a military base, in a few days gathering almost 3,500 soldiers. But the Russians decided to recapture Węgrów by rapid attack force composed of a 1,000-strong unit with artillery, led by colonel Georgi Papaafanasopulo. The Poles were threatened by encirclement, and Polish commander Jan Matliński ordered a retreat from the town.
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The Battle of Dover, also known as the Second Battle of Fort Donelson, was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring on February 3, 1863, in Stewart County, Tennessee.
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The 1863 United States Senate election in New York was held on February 3, 1863. The Union candidate Edwin D. Morgan defeated the Democratic candidate Erastus Corning on the joint ballot of the Senate and the Assembly.
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The Battle of Königshügel (Danish: Kampene ved Kongshøj), also known as the Battle of Ober-Selk fought on 3 February 1864, was a battle in the Second Schleswig War where Austrian Major General Gondrecourt and his infantry brigade succeeded in occupying the area in front of the Danevirke near Ober-Selk (Danish: Øvre Selk) and taking the strategically important village of Königshügel (Danish: Kongshøj).
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The Battle of Rivers' Bridge, also known as Salkehatchie River, Hickory Hill, Owen's Crossroads, Lawtonville, and Duck Creek, was a Union victory fought on February 3, 1865, during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War. While Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union armies marched north across South Carolina, about 1,200 Confederates under Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws were posted at the crossing on the Salkehatchie River. Union soldiers began to build bridges to bypass McLaws on February 2. The next day two brigades under Maj. Gen. Francis P. Blair waded through the swamp and flanked the Confederates.
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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government or any state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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The Coro Revolution, also known as the Colinada Revolution, was an armed insurrection led by General León Colina that occurred in Venezuela between October 1874 and February 1875 against the government of Antonio Guzmán Blanco. The conflict was one of the main armed movements against the dictatorship of Antonio Guzmán Blanco. The revolution was led by several liberal political leaders, among them generals León Colina and José Ignacio Pulido.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 29 January and 3 February 1892. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 243 of the 413 seats.
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The Walthamstow by-election, 1897 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 3 February 1897 for the House of Commons constituency of Walthamstow. The area was then a division of Essex, and is now part of Greater London. The election was won by the Liberal-Labour candidate, after the seat had been held by the Conservative Party for 11 years.
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The Battle of Kano was an important military engagement fought between the British Empire and the Sokoto Caliphate and their vassal state, the Kano Emirate. The battle took place in what is now Northern Nigeria.
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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 3, 1913, and effectively overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Pollock.
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The Dunedin Central by-election of 1915 was a by-election during the 19th New Zealand Parliament held on 3 February in the Dunedin Central electorate. The by-election was sparked by the resignation of the incumbent, Charles Statham, after irregularities in the counting of the vote during the 1914 general election turned a 10-vote lead for his competitor Jim Munro into a 12-vote loss. There were only two nominees.
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A fire started in the parliamentary reading room while the House of Commons was sitting in Ottawa. Seven people died. The Library of Parliament survived the blaze, which destroyed the rest of the original Centre Block.
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The Battle of Oulu refers to a battle between the Whites and the Reds in the port city of Oulu during the Finnish Civil War. The battle took place on 3 February 1918.
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Municipal Railway streetcars began carrying passengers through the Twin Peaks Tunnel. The tunnel connected the Market Street corridor with neighbourhoods west of Twin Peaks.
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The Dromkeen ambush took place on 3 February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, at Dromkeen in County Limerick. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambushed a Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) patrol, killing 11 policemen. The ambush was carried out by the flying columns of the East and Mid Limerick Brigades IRA, some 45 riflemen, under the command of Donnocha O'Hannigan commander of East Limerick Brigade Flying Column. Some time earlier the RIC had found the arms dump of the Mid-Limerick Brigade. Only one IRA volunteer—Liam Hayes—was wounded. Only two of the RIC got away.
County Limerick, Ireland · Kilteely-Dromkeen, Ireland · War & conflict · Checked 2026-09-23
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1923 Emperor's Cup Final was the third final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at Tokyo Koto-Shihan Ground in Tokyo on February 3, 1924. Astra Club won the championship.
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The February 1927 Revolt, sometimes also referred to as the February 1927 Revolution, was a military rebellion in Portugal that took place between February 3 and 9, 1927, centered in Porto, the city where the insurgents' command center was installed and fought the main challenges. The revolt, led by Adalberto Gastão de Sousa Dias, ended with the surrender and arrest of the rebels and resulted in about 80 deaths and 360 injuries in Porto and more than 70 deaths and 400 injuries in Lisbon.
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3 February 1930 is recognized as the founding date of the Communist Party of Vietnam. The party emerged from a unification conference chaired by Nguyen Ai Quoc, later known as Ho Chi Minh, in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
February 3 is the recognized founding anniversary. The official party history describes the conference as running from January 6 to early February and says the 1960 congress selected February 3 for the anniversary.
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The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10:47 am on 3 February, killing 256, injuring thousands and devastating the Hawke's Bay region. It remains New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster. Centred 15 km north of Napier, it lasted for two and a half minutes and had a magnitude of 7.8 Ms (7.7 Mw).
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The Battle of Port Moresby was an aerial battle fought between the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF) on one side and the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy on the other between 3 February 1942 and 17 August 1943 over Port Moresby, Papua. At the start, the defenders consisted only of Australian Army anti-aircraft batteries and machine-guns, but by late March had been strengthened by the arrival of Kittyhawk fighters from No. 75 Squadron RAAF. However, in just nine days they lost 11 aircraft and only the arrival of replacements enabled the unit to maintain ten serviceable machines.
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The Battle of Ambon (30 January – 3 February 1942) occurred on Ambon Island in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), as part of the Japanese offensive on the Dutch colony during World War II. In the face of a combined defense by Dutch and Australian troops, Japanese forces conquered the island and its strategic airfield in several days.
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The U.S. troopship Dorchester was torpedoed while crossing the North Atlantic. Hundreds died, including four military chaplains who helped passengers evacuate.
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The Battle of Kwajalein was fought as part of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It took place 31 January – 3 February 1944, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Employing learned lessons from the Battle of Tarawa, the United States launched a successful twin assault on the main islands of Kwajalein in the south and Roi-Namur in the north.
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The Battle of Manila (February 3, 1945 – March 3, 1945) was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944-45 during World War II that was fought by the American and Filipino forces against the Empire of Japan in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. The one-month battle, which culminated in the massacre of over 100,000 civilians and complete devastation of the city, was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater. Along with the massive loss of lives, the battle also destroyed architectural and cultural heritage dating back since the city's foundation.
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U.S. tanks broke through a gate at the University of Santo Tomas, where Japanese forces had held Allied civilians. A Filipino guerrilla guide helped the troops reach the camp.
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The Tonghua Incident (Chinese: 通化事件), also known as the February 3 Incident in Tonghua (Chinese: 通化二·三事件) or the Tonghua 3 February Riot (Chinese: 通化二·三反革命暴乱) was an armed uprising that broke out in Tonghua on 3 February 1946. It occurred during the post–World War II transition period when Nationalist and Chinese Communist Party forces were competing to take control of formerly Japanese-occupied territories following the surrender of Japan.
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Temple University defeated the University of San Francisco 2–0 in the third college Soccer Bowl at Kezar Stadium.
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The Batepá massacre occurred on 3 February 1953 in colonial São Tomé when hundreds of native creoles known as forros were massacred by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners. Many forros believed the government intended to force them to work as contract laborers, to which they objected. In response, the governor blamed the unrest on communists and ordered the military to round up such individuals and for civilians to protect themselves.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 3 February 1957. Voters were presented with a single slate of candidates from the People's Democratic Front (FDP), which was dominated by the Romanian Workers Party (PMR). The Front won all 437 seats in the Great National Assembly.
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American Airlines Flight 320 was a scheduled flight between Chicago Midway Airport and New York City's LaGuardia Airport. On February 3, 1959, the Lockheed L-188 Electra operating the flight crashed into the East River as it approached LaGuardia, killing 65 of the 73 people on board. The aircraft descended through dense clouds and fog, and during its final approach, it flew below the intended glide path before striking the icy river 4,900 feet (1,500 m) short of the runway.
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On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event later became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie".
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The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft landed on the Moon and sent back the first images taken from its surface.
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Severe winter storms and very low temperatures began a week of dangerous blizzard conditions in Iran. Research using historical weather observations traces the episode through February 9.
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The War of the Flags (also known as Landgrab '73) was a phase of fighting throughout South Vietnam lasting from 23 January to 3 February 1973 as the forces of North and South Vietnam each sought to maximize the territory under their control before the ceasefire in place agreed by the Paris Peace Accords came into effect at 8:00 on 28 January 1973 (local time).
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on February 3, 1974. Daniel Oduber Quirós of the National Liberation Party won the presidential election, whilst his party also won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 79.9%. The Left was theoretically outlawed as the Constitution didn’t allowed the existence of Marxist parties, but the prohibition was not endorsed in practice by that time and even was lifted with a Constitutional reform for the next election.
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The 1st Yokohama Film Festival (第1回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 3 February 1980 in Keihin Film Theatre, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan.
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On 3 February 1983, a New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held to determine the leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party. The leadership was won by Mangere MP David Lange, who had been Deputy Leader of the party since 1979.
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STS-41-B was NASA's tenth Space Shuttle mission and the fourth flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on February 3, 1984, and landed on February 11, 1984, after deploying two communications satellites. It included the first untethered spacewalk. After STS-9, the flight numbering system for the Space Shuttle program was changed.
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John Edmond Buster (born July 18, 1941) is an American physician who, while working at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, directed the research team that performed the first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth. It was performed at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, reported in July 1983, and culminated in the announcement of the birth on February 3, 1984.
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The 6th Yokohama Film Festival (第6回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 3 February 1985 in Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Elections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in 1985. The Indian National Congress won a majority of seats and Arjun Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister but was forced to resign as Chief Minister after just one day due to differences with Sriniwas Tiwari. Motilal Vora succeeded him as Chief Minister. Arjun Singh was sworn in as the Governor of Punjab after this.
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Pope John Paul II met Mother Teresa at Nirmal Hriday, the hospice run by the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, during his visit to India.
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The 1989 Paraguayan coup d'état, also known as La Noche de la Candelaria, was a coup d'état that took place on 2–3 February 1989 in Asunción, Paraguay, led by General Andrés Rodríguez against the regime of long-time leader Alfredo Stroessner. The bloody overthrow which saw numerous soldiers killed in street fighting was sparked by a power struggle in the highest echelons of the government.
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The New Orleans mayoral election of 1990 resulted in the reelection of Sidney Barthelemy to a second term as mayor of New Orleans.
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STS-60 was the first mission of the U.S./Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, and the 18th flight of Discovery, in which Sergei K. Krikalev became the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on February 3, 1994, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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STS-63 was the second mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from launch pad 39B on 3 February 1995 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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Big Apple Blizzard Blast was a professional wrestling live event produced by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on February 3, 1996. The event was held in the Lost Battalion Hall in Queens, New York City, New York in the United States. Excerpts from Big Apple Blizzard Blast aired on episodes #146 and #147 of the syndicated television show ECW Hardcore TV, while the event was released on VHS in 1996.
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The 1996 African Cup of Nations final was a football match that took place on 3 February 1996 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, to determine the winner of the 1996 African Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). South Africa won their first title, beating Tunisia 2–0.
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The 1996 Mundingburra state by-election was a by-election held on 3 February 1996 for the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Mundingburra, located in the southern suburbs of Townsville. It was brought on by the Court of Disputed Returns declaring void the close result of the July 1995 election in the normally safe Labor seat, and resulted in the end of the Goss Ministry headed by Labor Premier Wayne Goss, and the swearing in of a minority government led by Nationals leader Rob Borbidge.
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The 1996 Lijiang earthquake occurred at 19:14 on 3 February near Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China. The shock measured 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).
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General elections were held in Pakistan on 3 February 1997 to elect the National Assembly of Pakistan and the four provincial assemblies. The election featured a fierce contest between ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) led by incumbent Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the PML(N) led by conservative leader Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz Sharif was highly benefited and aided by the controversial death of populist leader Murtaza Bhutto, the worsening economy at home, and won the election in a landslide, receiving the highest number of votes ever won by a nonincumbent prime ministerial candidate. Sharif subsequently became the 12th prime minister of Pakistan.
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Provincial Assembly elections were held in Punjab, Pakistan on 3 February 1997 to elect all 240 members of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab, Pakistan along with nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections in Sindh, Balochistan, and North-West Frontier Province. The elections were held as a result of dismissal of Benazir Bhutto's second government by President Farooq Leghari in November 1996.
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Voters in Islamabad chose their representative in Pakistan’s National Assembly. Mian Muhammad Nawaz Khokhar of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) won the capital’s seat.
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The Cavalese cable car crash, also known as Strage del Cermis (lit. 'Cermis massacre'), occurred on 3 February 1998, near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort in the Dolomites some 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Trento. Twenty people were killed when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, flying too low and too fast, against regulations, cut a cable supporting a cable car of an aerial lift.
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The 2000 Prisión Fatal (Spanish for "Deadly Prison") was a major lucha libre event produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) professional wrestling promotion on February 3, 2000. The 2000 Prisión Fatal show was the first confirmed IWRG show that used the name, with it becoming a regular event with the 2012 Prisión Fatal show. The main event was the eponymous Prisión Fatal Steel cage match where the last person remaining in the cage was forced to unmasked per the match stipulation. Due to incomplete written records on the show only two matches have been confirmed on the show, including the 12-man steel cage match main event.
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A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Ceredigion was held on 3 February 2000, following the resignation of incumbent Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament Cynog Dafis; he decided to give up his seat after unexpectedly being elected to the National Assembly for Wales in May 1999. Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas won the by-election, comfortably holding the seat for the party.
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on February 3, 2002. For the first time in the country's history, no candidate in the presidential election passed the 40% threshold. This meant a second round of voting had to be held on April 7, which saw Abel Pacheco of the Social Christian Unity Party defeat the National Liberation Party's Rolando Araya Monge. Many analysts consider this election the beginning of the end of Costa Rica’s decades-long two party system. For the first time in many years alternative political forces become really relevant in the Parliament and the plenary had three large party groups; PUSC (19), PLN (17) and PAC (14).
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Communal elections were held in Cambodia for the first time on 3 February 2002.
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Nagasaki Prefecture in Japan held its gubernatorial election on 3 February 2002.
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The 23rd Yokohama Film Festival (第23回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 3 February 2002 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa.
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The 2001 Touchtel ATP World Doubles Challenge Cup was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 28th edition of the year-end doubles championships and was part of the 2001 ATP Tour. The tournament was held at the KSLTA Tennis Centre in Bangalore in India from 28 January through 3 February 2002.
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The 2004 Missouri Republican presidential primary on February 3, 2004 determined the recipient of 57 of the state's 58 delegates to the Republican National Convention in the process to elect the 44th president of the United States. It was an open primary.
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The 2004 Delaware Democratic presidential primary was held on February 3, 2004 as part of the 2004 United States Democratic presidential primaries. Frontrunner John Kerry easily won the primary while Senator Joe Lieberman came second. As the primary approached Joe Lieberman said that victory in the Delaware primary was required in order for his campaign to continue.
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The 2004 Arizona Democratic presidential primary took place on February 3, 2004, as part of the 2004 United States Democratic presidential primaries. The delegate allocation is Proportional. the candidates are awarded delegates in proportion to the percentage of votes received and is open to registered Democrats only. A total of 55 (of 64) delegates are awarded proportionally. A 15 percent threshold is required to receive delegates.
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The 2004 Missouri Democratic presidential primary on February 3, 2004 determined the recipient of the state's 88 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in the process to elect the democratic nominee for president of the United States. It was an open primary.
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The 2004 North Dakota Republican presidential caucuses were held on February 3, 2004, as part of the 2004 United States Republican Party primaries for the 2004 U.S. presidential election. 26 delegates to the 2004 Republican National Convention were allocated to the presidential candidates, the contest was held alongside primaries in Missouri and Oklahoma.
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The 2004 Wyoming Democratic presidential caucuses took place on February 3, 2004, as part of the 2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries. The delegate allocation is Proportional, the candidates are awarded delegates in proportion to the percentage of votes received. Because Kerry had already won the nomination, and the small number of people in the state that are registered Democrats, the turnout was extremely low.
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The 2004 Oklahoma Republican presidential primary was held on February 3 in the U.S. state of Oklahoma as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 2004 presidential election. Incumbent President George W. Bush easily won the primary with 90% of the vote against his only opponent on the ballot, Bill Wyatt, who unexpectedly won 10% of the vote.
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The 2004 Oklahoma Democratic presidential primary, part of the process of selecting that party's nominee for President of the United States, took place on February 3, one of the seven nominating contests of 2004's "Mini-Tuesday". The primary election chose 40 pledged delegates to represent Oklahoma at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. The remainder of Oklahoma's 47 delegates consisted of unpledged superdelegates not bound by the results of the primary.
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The 2004 North Dakota Democratic presidential caucuses were held on February 3 along with six other states. Frontrunner John Kerry had earlier won New Mexico, Missouri, Arizona and Delaware by large margins. Army General Wesley Clark had hoped to win some primaries this day but got only second and third place finishes. Howard Dean just months earlier Dean had narrowly been leading in polls over Wesley Clark.
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The 2004 Libertarian Party presidential primaries allowed voters to indicate non-binding preferences for the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. These differed from the Republican or Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in that they did not appoint delegates to represent a candidate at the party's convention to select the party's nominee for the United States presidential election.
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John Edwards finished first in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, ahead of John Kerry and Al Sharpton.
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Kam Air Flight 904 was a scheduled passenger domestic flight from Herat Airport in Herat to Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan's capital Kabul. On 3 February 2005, the aircraft crashed in mountainous terrain, killing all 97 passengers and 8 crew on board. The incident took place shortly after 4:00 p.m. local time (UTC+4:30) when the Kam Air Boeing 737-200 operated by Phoenix Aviation went missing on approach to Kabul.
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UFC 67: All or Nothing was a mixed martial arts event held by Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event was held Saturday, February 3, 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. It was also the first UFC pay-per-view broadcast in High-Definition.
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The February 2007 Al-Saydiya market bombing was the detonation of a large truck bomb in a busy market in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The suicide attack killed at least 135 people and injured 339 others. The bomb, estimated to be about one ton in weight, brought down at least 10 buildings and coffee shops and obliterated market stalls in a largely Shi‘ite enclave less than a half-mile from the Tigris River.
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A pre-term presidential election was held in Serbia on January 20 and February 3, 2008. Incumbent President Boris Tadić was reelected as President of Serbia in the second round with 51.61 percent of the votes cast, defeating challenger Tomislav Nikolić. The election for president was the first since Serbia became independent, when the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro was dissolved by the secession of Montenegro in 2006. The first round of elections was held on January 20, 2008, when none of the candidates secured an absolute majority of the votes cast.
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The 29th Yokohama Film Festival (第29回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 3 February 2008 in Kannai Hall, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
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An indirect presidential election was held in Greece on 3 February 2010. Incumbent president Karolos Papoulias was nominated by the ruling PASOK party (160 seats) and secured the support of the main opposition party, New Democracy (91 seats), and of the smaller LAOS (15 seats). Papoulias stood unopposed and was elected on the first ballot, with 266 votes.
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Hungary’s flag carrier Malév halted flights after decades of operation. The Budapest-based airline had run out of funding, and a court declared it insolvent later that month.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Cuba on 3 February 2013.
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On 3 February 2014, a school shooting occurred at School No. 263 in the Otradnoye District of Moscow, Russia. 15-year-old pupil Sergey Gordeyev, armed with a rifle, killed his geography teacher and held his classmates as hostages, before opening fire on first responders who arrived at the scene, killing a policeman and severely wounding a patrolman. In the following negotiations led by the perpetrator's father, the teenager released the hostages and was detained.
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The al-Qaeda–Islamic State conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between al-Qaeda and its allied groups, and the Islamic State.
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A leadership spill of the Country Liberal Party in the Northern Territory occurred 2–3 February 2015. Minister for Primary Industry and Mines Willem Westra van Holthe announced in a late night press conference on 2 February that the CLP had elected him as its new leader and hence Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, replacing Adam Giles.
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UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Anders (also known as UFC Fight Night 125) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on February 3, 2018, at Arena Guilherme Paraense in Belém, Brazil.
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The 92nd 2018 Lunar New Year Cup (Chinese: 狗年賀歲盃; lit. 'Year of the Dog Celebrate New Year Cup') was the annual football event held in Hong Kong to celebrate Chinese New Year. The event was held by the Hong Kong Football Association. 2matches were played.
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On February 3, 2018, the Wu Lin Feng world championship kickboxing event took place in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
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The 2018 Piala Sumbangsih was the 33rd edition of the Piala Sumbangsih, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Malaysia Super League and Malaysia Cup.
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The 40th Yokohama Film Festival (第４０回ヨコハマ映画祭) was held on 3 February 2019 at Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The awards ceremony was held in the city's Kannai Hall, the results having been announced on 1 December 2018.
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Presidential elections were held in El Salvador on 3 February 2019, with Salvadorans electing the president and vice president for a five-year term from 2019 to 2024. The election resulted in victory for Nayib Bukele of the right-wing Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA), who received 53%, defeating Carlos Calleja of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), Hugo Martínez of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and Josué Alvarado of the centrist Vamos party.
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The 2019 Aichi gubernatorial election was held on 3 February 2019 to elect the Governor of Aichi. Incumbent Governor Hideaki Omura was re-elected for a third term, defeating Saichi Kurematsu with 83.32% of the vote.
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The 2019 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 24 to February 3, 2019. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 28, 2018.
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The 2019 Supercopa Uruguaya was the second edition of the Supercopa Uruguaya, Uruguay's football super cup. It was held on 3 February 2019 between 2018 Torneo Intermedio winners Nacional and 2018 Primera División champions Peñarol. The match was played at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo. Nacional won their first Supercopa title following a 1–1 draw with Peñarol after extra time and a 4–3 win on kicks from the penalty mark.
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The 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses, the first nominating contest in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election, took place on February 3, 2020. Pete Buttigieg received the most state delegate equivalents (SDEs) and therefore the most delegates, with one SDE and two delegates more than Bernie Sanders, who had narrowly won the popular vote with 26.5%, 1.5% ahead of Buttigieg.
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The 2020 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses took place on Monday, February 3, 2020, as the first caucus or primary in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2020 presidential election. The Iowa caucuses are a closed caucus, with Iowa awarding 40 pledged delegates to the Republican National Convention, allocated on the basis of the results of the caucuses.
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The 16th Mumbai International Film Festival (Mumbai International Film Festival) was held from 28 January to 3 February 2020. The list included various kind of Documentaries, short fiction and animation films. The festival also celebrated the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray by showcasing documentaries made by him including short film Pikoo (1980), Sukumar Ray (1987) and The Inner Eye (1972).
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On February 3, 2021, Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists from Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin attacked a Malian base in the remote town of Boni. French troops from Operation Barkhane came to the Malians' aid, and successfully repulsed the attack. The attack came in direct response to the recent Franco-Malian counteroffensive of Operation Eclipse.
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The 2020 CONCACAF League final was the final round of the 2020 CONCACAF League, the fourth edition of the CONCACAF League, the secondary club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The final was contested in a single match format between Alajuelense and Saprissa, both clubs being from Costa Rica. The final was hosted by Alajuelense at the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Alajuela on 3 February 2021.
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The 2021 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 28 to February 3, 2021. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 15, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah, the festival combined in-person screenings at the Ray Theatre in Park City, with screenings held online as well as on screens and drive-ins in 24 states and territories across the United States.
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A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Southend West was held on 3 February 2022, following the murder of incumbent Conservative Party MP Sir David Amess on 15 October 2021. It was won by Anna Firth who held the seat for the Conservatives with 86% of the vote. The major opposition parties declined to stand out of respect for Amess, similarly to the 2016 Batley and Spen by-election—held after Labour Party MP Jo Cox was murdered.
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The first LEAP technology conference completed three days of talks and exhibitions at the Riyadh Front Exhibition and Conference Center. The programme brought together technology companies and startups and included a competition for new businesses.
Riyadh Front Exhibition and Conference Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Technology & industry · Checked 2026-11-07
On February 3, 2023, at 8:55 p.m. EST (UTC−5), a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, United States. The train was carrying hazardous materials when 38 cars derailed. Several railcars burned for more than two days and emergency crews also conducted controlled burns of several railcars, which released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air. Residents within a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) radius were evacuated.
Ohio, United States · Disasters · Checked 2026-09-23
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On February 3, 2023, Wu Lin Feng 533: China vs. Thailand took place in Tangshan, China.
China · Sport · Checked 2026-10-20
ONE Friday Fights 3: Chorfah vs. Petsukumvit (also known as ONE Lumpinee 3) was a combat sport event produced by ONE Championship that took place on February 3, 2023, at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
Location not yet verified · Sport · Checked 2026-10-18
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SuperFight (2024) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW). It took place on February 3, 2024, at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was streamed live on Triller TV. It was the fourth event under the SuperFight chronology. Additional matches were taped for MLW's "The Burning Crush", a free special which aired on BeIN Sports USA and MLW's YouTube channel on February 17.
Philadelphia, United States · Arts & culture · Checked 2026-09-23
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The 2024 Rey de Reyes (Spanish for "2024 King of Kings") was a professional wrestling tournament and supercard event produced by the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion. The event took place on February 3, 2024, at the Base del Ejercito y Fuerza Aerea in Mexico City, Mexico. The 2024 event was the 27th Rey de Reyes show and tournament.
Mexico City, Mexico · Arts & culture · Checked 2026-09-23
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The 2024 South Carolina Democratic presidential primary was held on February 3, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 55 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated, with 10 additional unpledged delegates. The open primary was the first officially recognized contest during the Democratic primary window. In the Republican cycle the respective primary was held three weeks later, traditionally behind Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
South Carolina, United States · Politics & society · Checked 2026-09-23
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UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov (also known as UFC Fight Night 235, UFC on ESPN+ 93 and UFC Vegas 85) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on February 3, 2024, at the UFC Apex facility, in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
Nevada, United States · Sport · Checked 2026-09-24
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On 3 February 2026, hundreds of extremist militants attacked the villages of Woro and Nuku (7 km to the west) in Kwara State, Nigeria, killing at least 162 residents. It was one of the deadliest attacks in Nigeria in months. Nigerian sources labelled the event the Kwara massacre.
Nigeria · War & conflict · Checked 2026-09-23
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Kristin Nelson defeated Hazel Floyd in a special election for Alabama’s House District 38, which covers parts of Chambers and Lee counties. The vote filled the vacancy left by Debbie Wood’s resignation.
Chambers and Lee counties, Alabama, United States · Politics & society · Checked 2026-11-07