The 3rd o Februar is the 34t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 331 days ti come (332 in lowp years).
- 1488 - Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu Dias lands at Mossel Bay, Sooth Africae.
- 1830 - The Lunnon Protocol establishes the full unthirldom o Greece.
- 1917 - Warld War I: The Unitit States breaks diplomatic relations wi Germany.
- 1931 - A magnitude 7.8 yirdquauk hits the Hawke's Bay area o New Zealand, killin 256 fowk.
- 1959 - "Day the Music Died" plane crash in Iowa kills 3 musicians, including Buddy Holly.
- 1960 - Breetish Prime meenister Harold Macmillan speaks o "Winds o Change".
- 1972 - Stairt o a 7-day blizzard in Iran, killin 4,000 fowk.
- 1972 - Stairt o the 1972 Winter Olympic Gemmes in Sapporo, Japan.
- 1989 - Overthrow o Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay.
- 1998 - Cavalese Cable Car disaster: A low-flying Unitit States military plane cuts through a cable o Cable Car line in northern Italy, killin 20 fowk.
- 2006 - A Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea, killin 1,414 fowk.
- 2007 - A market bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 135 fowk.
- 2015 - Sergio Mattarella acomes Preses o Italy.
- 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German componer (d. 1849)
- 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)
- 1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrick poet (d. 1914)
- 1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish airchitect (d. 1976)
- 1909 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
- 1948 - Henning Mankell, Swadish writer (d. 2015)
- 1953 − Steve Maharey, New Zealand politeecian
- 1955 - Kirsty Wark, Scots broadcaster
- 1960 - Joachim Löw, German fitbaa manager
- 1970 - Warwick Davis, Inglis actor
- 1978 - Joan Capdevila, Spainyie fitbawer
- 1990 - Sean Kingston, American sangster
