February 3rd
1737 - Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician
1754 - Birth of George Crabbe, English naturalist
1817 - Birth of Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist
1821 - Birth of Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician
1862 - Death of Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist
1893 - Birth of Gaston Julia, French mathematician
1920 - Birth of Henry Heimlich, American physician
1929 - Death of Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist
1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician
1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon
1984 - On STS-41-B astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist
2005 - Death of Ernst Mayr, German-born ornithologist and evolutionary biologist
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