How Many Days Until February 3?

This day in history: February 3

1. 1972

   The deadliest blizzard in history began in Iran and continued for a week leaving more than 4,000 people dead.

2. 1986

   Steve Jobs purchased Pixar from Lucasfilm and launched it as an independent computer-animation studio.

3. 1995

   In mission STS-63, astronaut Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle.

4. 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.

5. 2006

   Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: 23 convicts, including several militants associated with al-Qaeda, escaped from a prison administered by the Political Security Organization in Sanaa, Yemen.

6. 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.

7. 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.

Source: Wikipedia, text available under CC BY-SA 4.0.