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Emperor Meiji
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Emperor Meiji
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Mossel Bay in 2006
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Monument to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper near Clear Lake, Iowa
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Painting of the Battle of San Lorenzo
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José de San Martín
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James I of Aragon entering Murcia
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British bomber flying to join the Battle of Keren
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Steve Jobs
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Setsubun in Japan; | date in infobox doesn't agree with date in the lead |
| Feast day of Dom Justo Takayama in Japan and the Philippines; | citation check |
| 1509 – Turkish–Portuguese War: Portugal defeated a joint fleet of Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire, the Zamorin of Calicut and the Sultan of Gujarat at the Battle of Diu off the coast of Diu, India. | unreferenced section |
| 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: British forces captured the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius after a brief skirmish. | needs citations |
| 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom captured Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay, from the Spanish Empire. | needs more footnotes; Montevideo not bold because it's not an appropriate target article |
| 1815 – The first factory for the industrial production of cheese opened in Switzerland. | date not in article, refimprove section |
| 1867 – Crown Prince Mutsuhito succeeded his father Kōmei as Emperor of Japan, taking the title Meiji. | needs more footnotes |
| 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, allowing Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on census results. | refimprove section |
| 1916 – A fire destroyed the Centre Block, the main building of the Canadian parliamentary complex on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario. | needs update |
| 1931 – New Zealand's deadliest natural disaster, the Template:Nowrap Hawke's Bay earthquake, struck, killing 256. | refimprove section |
| 1966 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 became the first space probe to land on the Moon and transmit pictures from the lunar surface. | refimprove section |
| 1967 – Ronald Ryan became the last person to be legally executed in Australia, sparking public protests across the country. | multiple issues |
| 1971 – New York City Police officer Frank Serpico, who had reported police corruption to the department and the press, was shot and wounded under questionable circumstances. | lead too short |
| 1984 – A woman under the care of Dr. John Buster of the Harbor–UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, gave birth to a baby that resulted from the first successful embryo transfer from one person to another. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – Alfredo Stroessner, whose rule as president of Paraguay for 35 years was marked by uninterrupted repression in his country, was overthrown in a military coup by Andrés Rodríguez. | Stroessner: refimprove; Rodríguez: unreferenced section |
| 1998 – A U.S. Marine Corps [[Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler|Template:Nowrap Prowler]] inadvertently severed a cable supporting a cable-car gondola in Cavalese, Italy, killing 20 passengers. | citations needed |
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- 1266 – Mudéjar revolt: King James I of Aragon entered the formerly Muslim-held city of Murcia (depicted), following its surrender three days earlier.
- 1813 – Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment defeated Spanish royalist forces in the Battle of San Lorenzo (depicted).
- 1852 – The Argentine Confederation was defeated in the Platine War by an alliance consisting of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes.
- 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
- 1933 – Adolf Hitler announced that the conquest of Lebensraum in Eastern Europe, and its "ruthless Germanisation", were the geopolitical objectives of Reich foreign policy.
- 1941 – World War II: Free French and British forces (aircraft pictured) began the Battle of Keren to capture the strategic town of Keren in Italian East Africa.
- 1953 – Hundreds of native creoles known as Forros were massacred on São Tomé Island by the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners.
- 1959 – American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash (wreckage pictured) shortly after takeoff from Mason City Municipal Airport in Iowa.
- 1972 – The deadliest blizzard in history began in Iran and continued for a week leaving more than 4,000 people dead.
- 1986 – Steve Jobs purchased Pixar from Lucasfilm and launched it as an independent computer-animation studio.
- 1998 – Despite a large international movement advocating the commutation of her sentence to life imprisonment, Karla Faye Tucker became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984.
- 2010 – An edition of L'Homme qui marche I, a bronze sculpture by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million, setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.
- 2014 – Russia's first school shooting took place when a student opened fire at School No. 263 in Moscow, resulting in the deaths of a teacher and a police officer.
- 2023 – A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous materials into the surrounding area.
- Born/died this day: | Coloman, King of Hungary |d|1116| Scipione Rebiba |b|1504| Horace Greeley |b|1811| George Crabbe |d|1832| Abu Bakar of Johor |b|1833| Giuseppe Moretti |b|1857| Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard |b|1873| Isaac Baker Brown |d|1873| Simone Weil |b|1909| Tatyana Velikanova |b|1932| Franco Reviglio |b|1935| Gengoroh Tagame |b|1964| C. N. Annadurai |d|1969| Aimee Lou Wood |b|1994| Kanna Hashimoto |b|1999|
February 3: Feast day of Saint Laurence of Canterbury (Western Christianity); Four Chaplains' Day in the United States (1943) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1047 – Emperor Henry III declared Drogo of Hauteville to be count of all Apulian and Calabrian Normans.
- 1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally united, creating the Romanian United Principalities.
- 1870 – Reconstruction era: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, formally prohibiting race-based disenfranchisement in the United States.
- 1930 – The Communist Party of Indochina, the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina merged to form the Communist Party of Vietnam.
- 1995 – In mission STS-63, astronaut Eileen Collins (pictured) became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.