What Day of the Week

February 3, 2021 was the 34^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 331 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1488

  Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
• 1813

  José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
• 1830

  The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol.
• 1916

  Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
• 1917

  World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1931

  The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• 1959

  A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
• 1960

  British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the “a wind of change” of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government is likely to support decolonisation.
• 2011

  All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
• 2011

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.

• 1811

  Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher (d. 1872)
• 1843

  William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915)
• 1903

  Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish aviator (d. 1973)
• 1909

  Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
• 1911

  Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
• 1927

  Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
• 1929

  Ken Shipp, American football coach
• 1948

  Henning Mankell, Swedish author
• 1971

  Vincent Elbaz, French actor
• 1972

  Mart Poom, Estonian footballer

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