February 3 - Friends

Friends

This Day In History

1488

Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

1690

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

1787

Shays' Rebellion is crushed.

1918

The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.

1947

The lowest temperature in North America (−81 °F) is recorded in Snag, Yukon.

1959

A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.

1984

STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

1995

Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

2011

All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.

Famous Birthdays

1721

Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)

1811

Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)

1821

Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician and the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States (d. 1910)

1859

Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)

1874

Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)

1894

Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)

1907

James Michener, American author (d. 1997)

1940

Fran Tarkenton, American football player

1943

Blythe Danner, American actress

1947

Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor

1956

Nathan Lane, American actor

1970

Warwick Davis, English actor