Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 3

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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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Born/died this day: | Scipione Rebiba |b|1504| Caroline von Wolzogen |b|1763| Horace Greeley |b|1811| George Crabbe |d|1832| Giuseppe Moretti |b|1857| Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard |b|1873| Isaac Baker Brown |d|1873| Dolly Rudeman |b|1902 | Tatyana Velikanova |b|1932| Gengoroh Tagame |b|1964| C. N. Annadurai |d|1969

February 3: Feast day of Saint Laurence of Canterbury (Western Christianity); Four Chaplains' Day in the United States (1943)


 * 1813 – Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and the Mounted Grenadiers Regiment defeated Spanish royalist forces in the Battle of San Lorenzo.


 * 1941 – Second World War: 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.
 * 2023 – A freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing hazardous materials into the surrounding area.