February3 is day 34 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 34, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.4.0 by the Mayan Long Count

We are getting ready to head out on yet another multi-week adventure in the near future. This means that I need to write, post and schedule a whole bunch of OTs for the period of my absence, as well as some to bridge the gap between now and the start date. This means, among other things, that you shouldn't expect too much from them and will need to provide content as well as commentary yourselves (as if you don't already, heh). So, here we go ...

On this day in history:

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1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal landed in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope

1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issued the first paper money in the Americas.

1870 – The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, giving voting rights to adult male citizens regardless of race.

1913 – The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

1918 – The World's longest streetcar tunnel, the Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, went into service

1958 –The Benelux Economic Union was founded, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.

1959 – Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

1966 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon

1971 – Frank Serpico was shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn but survived to later testify against police corruption.

1998 – A US military pilot caused the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cut the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.

Born this day in:

1809 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, composer, and conductor

1811 – Horace Greeley, journalist and politician

1874 – Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet, playwright,

1893 – Gaston Julia, mathematician and academic. (you may have heard of his set)

1904 – Pretty Boy Floyd, businessman

1920 – Henry Heimlich, physician and author

1927 – Kenneth Anger, actor, director, and screenwriter

1935 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Died this day in:

1959 – The Big Bopper
1959 - Buddy Holly
1959 - Ritchie Valens

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies