On this day — February 3

Nigeria.

A freight train containing vinyl chloride and other hazardous materials derails and burns in East Palestine, Ohio, United States, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air and contaminating the Ohio River.

Russia leaves two people dead and one wounded.

A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.

STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.

W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.

dictator of Paraguay since 1954.

STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.

which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.

and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.