Daily Calendar for Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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Felix Mendelssohn (composer) – 1809
Horace Greeley (journalist) – 1811
Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman to earn an MD degree in the U.S.) – 1821
Sidney Lanier (poet) – 1842
Gertrude Stein (American author; was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania [now part of Pittsburgh]) – 1874
Norman Rockwell (artist) – 1894
James Michener (novelist) – 1907
Joey Bishop (comedian) – 1918
John Fiedler (actor; best known for providing the voice of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh ) – 1925
Shelley Berman (actor) – 1926
Blythe Danner (actress) – 1943
Morgan Fairchild (actress) – 1950
Nathan Lane (actor) – 1956
Maura Tierney (actress) – 1965
Warwick Davis (actor) – 1970
Isla Fisher (actress) – 1976
Ryne Sanborn (actor) – 1989

Woodrow Wilson (28th U.S. president) – 1924
Nancy Kulp (actress) – 1991
Audrey Meadows (actress) – 1996
James Blackwood (member of the giant gospel group, The Blackwood Brothers Quartet) – 2002
Al Lewis (actor, most well-known as Grandpa Munster on The Munsters) – 2006
Frances Reid (actress) – 2010

U.S. copyright law began protecting music – 1831
Calcutta Railway opened – 1855
Chicago White Stockings pitcher Albert Spalding and his brother, banker J. Walter Spalding, open A.G. Spalding & Bros. sporting goods store and manufacturer in Chicago. – 1876
Teddy Roosevelt visited his sweetheart, Alice Lee, Chestnut Hill, MA – 1880
Fire destroyed Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario – 1916
The Four Chaplains, having given their life jackets to others, drowned when the torpedoed SS Dorchester sank during WWII – 1943
XI Winter Olympics open in Sapporo, Japan – 1972
President Clinton lifted the Trade Embargo on Vietnam – 1994
Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman in the United States to pilot a space shuttle (Discovery) – 1995
The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI – 2002
A healthy Laysan albatross chick hatched at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean. Its mother was a 62-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom—the oldest known living wild bird at the time. – 2013
Sumatran tiger triplets born at the London Zoo. Melati was the proud 5-year-old tiger mom. – 2014

A storm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, brought 20 inches of snow – 1803
North America’s coldest temperature was recorded in Snag, Yukon Territory. The temperature dropped to -81.4°F. – 1947
A rare February EF1 tornado hit Gray, Roberts, and Hemphill counties in Texas – 2012