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Historical Events on February 3

  • Portuguese Empire

    1509

    The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.

  • Massachusetts

    1690

    The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.

  • American Revolutionary War

    1781

    American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.

  • World War I

    1917

    World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

  • Adolf Hitler

    1933

    Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.

  • World War II

    1944

    World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.

  • United States Air Forces

    1961

    The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.

  • Cairo

    1969

    In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.

  • Stroke

    1989

    After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.

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