Tomorrow's Holidays in February 3

✡️ Religious Observances

• Islamic: Lailat-ul-Bara'at major
• Islamic: Urs of Sayyidina Abu Yazid al-Bistami (ق) major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2014 — Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia. ↗
• 2007 — A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. ↗
• 1998 — Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a... ↗
• 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. ↗
• 1989 — After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1997 — Paige Mary Hourigan, New Zealand tennis player
• 1996 — Rhap Salazar, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
• 1995 — Kim Domingo, Filipino actress and model
• 1992 — Luke Keary, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 — Nikola Hofmanova, Austrian tennis player