History for February 3

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Horace Greeley 1811, Gertrude Stein 1874, Norman Rockwell 1894


James A. Michener 1907, Simone Weil 1909 - Philosopher, political activist, Morgan Fairchild 1950


1815 - The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.


1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax.


1927 - The Federal Radio Commission was created when U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill.


1941 - In Vichy, France, the Nazis used force to restore Pierre Laval to office.


1966 - The first rocket-assisted controlled landing on the Moon was made by the Soviet space vehicle Luna IX.


1969 - At the Palestinian National Congress in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was appointed leader of the PLO.


1998 - Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker. She was the first woman executed in the U.S. since 1984.


1998 - In Italy, a U.S. Military plane hit a cable causing the death of 20 skiers on a lift.