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| February 3rd, 2007 | Event | A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. |
| February 3rd, 1999 | Event | In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived. |
| February 3rd, 1998 | Event | Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. |
| February 3rd, 1998 | Event | 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 cable-car near Trento, Italy. |
| February 3rd, 1991 | Event | The Italian Communist Party dissolves and splits into the Democratic Party of the Left and the Communist Refoundation Party. |
| February 3rd, 1989 | Event | After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa. |
| February 3rd, 1989 | Event | A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. |
| February 3rd, 1988 | Event | Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan s request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras. |
| February 3rd, 1984 | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B MissionAstronauts, Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit. |
| February 3rd, 1971 | Event | New York Police Office Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.. Many believed the incident proved NYPD officers tried to kill him. |
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