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February 3[edit]
1952: The Groundhog Day Storm (not to be confused with the Groundhog Day Gale) brushed by western Cuba and made landfall on southern Florida, the earliest in the year that a North Atlantic tropical cyclone has done so.
1966: The ESSA-1 weather satellite was launched.
1990: Cyclone Ofa began moving away from Samoa, leaving major damage and 8 people dead in its wake.