February 3
Geek events to celebrate on February 3:
1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
February 3 birthdays of geeky note:
1905 – Arne Beurling, Swedish-American mathematician (d. November 20, 1986). In the summer of 1940 he single-handedly deciphered and reverse-engineered an early version of the Siemens and Halske T52 also known as the Geheimfernschreiber (secret teletypewriter) used by Nazi Germany in World War II for sending ciphered messages.