On this day …
February 3, 2017
- In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal became the first European to navigate around the Cape of Good Hope.
- In 1690, the Massachusetts colony issued the first paper money in the Americas.
- In 1834, Wake Forest University was established in Winston-Salem, N.C.
- In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, authorizing the federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
- In 1959, rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “Big Bopper” Richardson died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
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