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February 3
'''February 3''' in history:
* 1995: Astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a NASA spacecraft with the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on a mission that lasted until February 11.
* 1989: The repressive regime of Alfredo Stroessner, who had ruled [[Directory:Paraguay|Paraguay]] for 35 years, was overthrown in a military coup.
* 1966: The Soviet space probe Luna 9 made the first survivable landing on the Moon and sent several television images of the surface back to the Earth.
* 1959: A plane crash near Clear Lake, [[Directory:Iowa|Iowa]], killed the rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as their pilot.
* 1917: In response to the German announcement that it was resuming unrestricted submarine warfare, President Woodrow Wilson severed U.S. diplomatic relations with [[Directory:Germany|Germany]]; the [[Directory:United States of America|United States]] was soon to enter World War I.
* 1821, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to obtain (1849) a medical degree in the United States, was born in England.
* 1468: Johann Gutenberg, the German goldsmith who is credited with the invention and development in [[Europe]] of printing from movable type, died.
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