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February 3
1468Johann Gutenberg, German printer and inventor, died. 1870The 15th Amendment (black suffrage) passed. 1913The 16th Amendment, establishing federal income tax, was ratified. 1917The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. 1959Rock singers, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper died in a plane crash. 1995Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the space shuttle when the Discovery blasted off. 1998Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984. 
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