Autrefois:

• Feb 03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874
• Feb 03 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland, 1815
• Feb 03 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big
• Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959
• Feb 03 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809