On this day in History - February 3

1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy.

(Editors note: I know this is very common knowledge, but I included it because my nickname in highschool was "Drogo of Hott-ville." Different spelling, but still.)

1583 – Battle of São Vicente takes place off Portuguese Brazil where three English warships led by navigator Edward Fenton fight off three Spanish galleons sinking one in the process.

1916 – The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of seven lives.

1960 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.

1966 – The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.