February 3 - Today in History

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On February 3, 1959, a plane crash in Iowa killed rock and roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. This tragic event, later called 'The Day the Music Died,' was immortalized in Don McLean's 1971 song 'American Pie.'

February 3, 1966, marked the first soft landing of a human-made object on another celestial body. The Soviet Union's Luna 9 spacecraft touched down on the Moon and transmitted the first-ever photographs from its surface back to Earth.