What happend on 3rd February

02.02
04.02
1969

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

1967

Ronald Ryan is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. The last person to be executed in Australia.

1966

The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.

1959

The Day The Music Died: A plane crash kills rock-and-roll performers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper.

1957

Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).

1952

The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida.

1951

Dick Button wins the American figure skating championship for the fourth consecutive time.

1947

Percival Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House and Senate press gallery.

1945

World War II: Soviet Union agrees to enter the Pacific Theatre conflict against Japan.

1944

United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.