February 3<\/p>\n
1690 \u2013 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.<\/p>\n
1787 \u2013 Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln defeat forces of Shays’ Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts with many retreating to New York, Vermont and New Hampshire to regroup.<\/p>\n
1809 \u2013 The Territory of Illinois is created by Congress.<\/p>\n
1870 \u2013 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified<\/p>\n
1913 \u2013 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified<\/p>\n
1917 \u2013 In a 2 hour speech to a joint session of Congress, President Woodrow Wilson announces his decision to sever diplomatic relations with Germany due to the German chancellor declaring the resumption of unlimited submarine warfare.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet long.<\/p>\n
1958 \u2013 The Benelux Economic Union treaty is signed in The Hague<\/p>\n
1959 \u2013 Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.<\/p>\n
1961 \u2013 The U.S Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass<\/em>, starting a constant 24\/7\/365\u00a0 flight of command and control “Doomsday Planes” with the capability of taking direct control of the U.S. nuclear force if necessary.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 Doctor John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Space Shuttle mission STS-60 launches Shuttle Discovery<\/em>, with Sergei Krikalev as the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Space Shuttle mission STS-63 launches Shuttle Discovery<\/em>, with Eileen Collins aboard as the first woman to pilot the Shuttle<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 A U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler<\/em> pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 3 1690 \u2013 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas. 1787 \u2013 Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln defeat forces of Shays’ Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts with many retreating to New York, Vermont and New Hampshire to regroup. 1809 \u2013 The Territory of Illinois is created by Congress. 1870 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89762,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64482\/revisions\/89762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}