Feb. 3rd--this day in history

Gonzales becomes first Hispanic U.S. attorney general, 2005

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Greene crosses the Yadkin with Kosciusko's boats, 1781

AUTOMOTIVE

"World's Fastest Indian" makes U.S. debut, 2006

CIVIL WAR

Possible peace is discussed at Hampton Roads conference, 1865

COLD WAR

Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing atomic bomb information to Soviets,1950

CRIME

Early American mass murder changes common perceptions of crime, 1780

DISASTER

Marine jet severs ski-lift cable in Italy, 1998

GENERAL INTEREST

Woodrow Wilson dies,1924

Cousteau publishes The Silent World, 1953

The day the music died,1959

Lunik 9 soft-lands on lunar surface, 1966

Clinton ends Vietnam trade embargo, 1994

HOLLYWOOD

John Cassavetes dies,1989

LITERARY

Keats falls deathly ill,1820

MUSIC

The Music dies in an Iowa cornfield, 1959

OLD WEST

Belle Starr murdered in Oklahoma, 1889

PRESIDENTIAL

Clinton ends trade embargo of Vietnam,1994

SPORTS

New England Patriots win first Super Bowl, 2002

New York Giants upset New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, 2008

VIETNAM WAR

Diem institutes limited agrarian reforms, 1955

Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings, 1970

WORLD WAR I

U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Germany,1917

WORLD WAR II

U.S. troops capture the Marshall Islands, 1944