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Send This Page To A Friend \| Home What happened today in history? Uncle Woody's Almanac for February 3
1996	Actress Audrey Meadows, who portrayed Jackie Gleason's wife on the TV comedy The Honeymooners, dies of lung cancer at age 73.
1995	Air Force Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins becomes the first woman commander of a US space mission as the shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1989	Uruguayan president Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown in a military coup.
1989	Actor-director John Cassavetes (The Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby) dies at age 59 in Los Angeles.
1967	The Beatles record new bass, drum, and vocal tracks for A Day In The Life, a song that will ultimately appear on their Sergeant Pepper album, at EMI Studios in London. (photo credit: Capitol Records)
1959	Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. 'The Big Bopper' Richardson die in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
1930	US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft resigns for health reasons.
1924	Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the US, dies in Washington, DC, at age 68. (photo credit: NARA)
1917	The US severs diplomatic relations with Germany, due to the German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1916	The original Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Canada, are destroyed by fire.
1913	The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, providing for a federal income tax.
1809	The US territory of Illinois is created.
1783	Spain recognizes the independent country calling itself the United States.
1699	The colony of Massachusetts issues paper money for the first time in America, as it pays its soldiers fighting against Quebec.