Replay a Day

Replaying Saturday, February 3, 1979

The February 3, 1979 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 33 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.

If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 148 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, February 3, 2027, in 216 days. You have lived for 17,315 days, or about 415,575 hours, or about 24,934,531 minutes, or about 1,496,071,860 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

Elizabeth Holmes (entrepreneur, born February 3, 1984)
Beau Biden (lawyer, politician, soldier, born February 3, 1969)
Isla Fisher (actor, film actor, model, novelist, writer, born February 3, 1976)
Joachim Löw (association football manager, association football player, born February 3, 1960)
Amal Clooney (barrister, human rights activist, writer, born February 3, 1978)
Daddy Yankee (actor, singer, songwriter, born February 3, 1977)
Warwick Davis (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born February 3, 1970)
Maitland Ward (actor, film actor, model, pornographic actor, television actor, born February 3, 1977)
Maura Tierney (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born February 3, 1965)
Tao Tsuchiya (actor, fashion model, model, born February 3, 1995)
Felix Mendelssohn (composer, conductor, music pedagogue, musician, musicologist, organist, painter, pianist, university teacher, writer, born February 3, 1809)
Nathan Lane (film actor, film producer, singer, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, writer, born February 3, 1956)
Blythe Danner (environmentalist, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born February 3, 1943)
Jotaro Kujo (marine biologist, born February 3, 1970)
Silambarasan Rajendar (actor, film director, lyricist, playback singer, recording artist, screenwriter, songwriter, born February 3, 1983)
Stephanie Salas Banquells (singer, television actor, born February 3, 1970)
Gertrude Stein (art collector, author, autobiographer, collector, librettist, playwright, poet, salonnière, writer, born February 3, 1874)
Simone Weil (French Resistance fighter, autobiographer, diarist, philosopher, poet, teacher, trade unionist, translator, writer, born February 3, 1909)
Antonio José de Sucre (military personnel, politician, born February 3, 1795)
Juan José Esparragoza Moreno (drug trafficker, born February 3, 1949)
Shahab Hosseini (actor, film director, film producer, presenter, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born February 3, 1974)
Norman Rockwell (artist, illustrator, painter, photographer, born February 3, 1894)
Sean Kingston (actor, rapper, record producer, singer, songwriter, born February 3, 1990)
Corinne Masiero (actor, stage actor, born February 3, 1964)
Morgan Fairchild (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born February 3, 1950)
Reika Miyazaki (fashion model, tarento, born February 3, 1988)
Vera Brezhneva (actor, presenter, singer, television presenter, born February 3, 1982)
Michael Cimino (film director, film producer, screenwriter, born February 3, 1939)
Shohei Ono (judoka, born February 3, 1992)
Waheeda Rehman (actor, film actor, born February 3, 1938)
Ron Woodroof (HIV activist, electrician, entrepreneur, born February 3, 1950)
Vijay Antony (actor, composer, singer, born February 3, 1974)
Alvar Aalto (architect, designer, urban planner, born February 3, 1898)
Bridget Regan (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born February 3, 1982)
Leoluca Bagarella (criminal, born February 3, 1942)
Malaika Mihambo (athletics competitor, born February 3, 1994)
Dutee Chand (athletics competitor, born February 3, 1996)
Ayanna Pressley (politician, born February 3, 1974)
Cho Kyuhyun (actor, recording artist, singer, television actor, born February 3, 1988)
Paul Auster (author, autobiographer, essayist, film director, linguist, novelist, poet, screenwriter, translator, university teacher, writer, born February 3, 1947)
Kamil Glik (association football player, born February 3, 1988)
Andrew Form (film producer, born February 3, 1969)
Anne of Brittany (royalty, born January 25, 1477)
Kerry Von Erich (actor, professional wrestler, born February 3, 1960)
Pretty Boy Floyd (gangster, robber, born February 3, 1904)
Rudy Zerbi (radio personality, record producer, television presenter, born February 3, 1969)
Sara Carbonero (journalist, presenter, sports journalist, television presenter, born February 3, 1984)
Raghuram Rajan (banker, economist, professor, born February 3, 1963)
Vlade Divac (actor, basketball player, humanitarian, born February 3, 1968)
Adia Barnes (basketball coach, basketball player, born February 3, 1977)

3rd of February 1979 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on February 3, 1979

Suit Heard in Stoppage at Times

Date: 03 February 1979

Judge Robert W Sweet reserves decision after hearing motion by NY Times for preliminary injunction to bar Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union from continuing limited work stoppage at Carlstadt plant (S)

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Judge Orders Reporter in Denver To Reveal Grand Jury Information

Date: 03 February 1979

Judge Edward Day orders Denver Post reporter Howard Pankratz, who allegedly recd secret grand jury information from former Colo official, to disclose that information in 2 wks or possibly be cited for contempt; rejects arguments by Denver Post attys that forcing Pankratz to testify would have chilling effect on news gathering; Pankratz has admitted meeting with Robert Ozer, former dir of Colo Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, in Dec, but has said contents of that meeting were confidential and involved reporter-source relationship that should be protected by const guarantees of free press (S)

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Sports News Briefs; Kelley, Giant Linebacker, Likely to Stay With Team Lanier Named an All-Star Twins Modify Carew Deal, Await Yankee Response Jersey Concern Awarded Contract for Indoor Arena F.B.I. Is Investigating Writer's Case in Alabama Tully's Mark Still Pending

Date: 03 February 1979

FBI says it is investigating possibility that Gulf Shores police violated civil rights of Sacramento Bee sportswriter Bob Padecky, who was escorted out of town after he was apparently set up for cocaine arrest (S)

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City TV Stations Promise More L.I. News Coverage; Wider TV Coverage Pledged

Date: 04 February 1979

By IRVIN MOLOTSKY

Irvin MOLOTSKY

News dirs Ronald Tindiglia (WABC), Stephen J Cohen (WCBS) and Norman Fein (WNBC) disclose plans to increase coverage of LI, meeting with delegation of LI officials; illus (M)

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