Blue Heeler dog

Bluey is an Australian animated television series for preschoolers that has aired on ABC Kids since October 2018. Created by Joe Brumm, the series follows Bluey, an anthropomorphic six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy (example pictured) who engages in imaginative play with her father Bandit, mother Chilli, and younger sister Bingo. The characters of Bluey each represent a particular dog breed, some of which are drawn from Brumm's personal life; he had a Blue Heeler named Bluey throughout his childhood. Overarching themes include family, growing up, and Australian culture. The program was created and is produced in Queensland; its capital city of Brisbane inspired the show's setting. Bluey won a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Children's Program in 2019 as well as an International Emmy Kids Award. It has been praised by television critics for its depiction of modern everyday family life, constructive parenting messages and the role of Bandit as a positive father figure. (Full article...)

A Golden Retriever retrieving a shot game bird

• ... that all Golden Retrievers (example pictured) descend from a golden-coloured Flat-coated Retriever named Nous and a Tweed Water Spaniel named Belle?
• ... that Clemson University football player Jim McCanless made the 1958 varsity team despite having suffered a broken neck the year prior?
• ... that two major petrochemical explosions in the Greater Houston area, the 1990 ARCO explosion and the Phillips disaster, occurred within one year of each other?
• ... that the seafaring poet D. I. Antoniou worked on a single poem for more than a decade and ended up publishing it over thirty years later?
• ... that Broadway's Lyric Theatre, once deemed a "cursed" theater, now hosts The Cursed Child?
• ... that Australian senator Ben Small had been a ship's officer, bar owner, paramedic, ambulance trainer, and logistician before entering politics?
• ... that the Finnish 7th Division was formed in 1940 by renumbering another unit to make it appear to the Soviets that it had been replaced with fresh troops?
• ... that Claudia Quintet was born out of an incident at alt.coffee?

António Costa

• The Socialist Party, led by António Costa (pictured), wins a majority of seats in the Portuguese legislative election.
• Sergio Mattarella is re-elected as president of Italy.
• In Burkina Faso, a coup d'état led by military officer Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba deposes President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
• Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and peace activist Thích Nhất Hạnh dies at the age of 95.

February 3: Feast day of Saint Laurence of Canterbury (Western Christianity); Four Chaplains' Day in the United States (1943)

James I of Aragon entering Murcia

• 1266 – Mudéjar revolt: King James I of Aragon entered the Muslim-held city of Murcia (depicted), conquered following its surrender three days earlier.
• 1852 – The Argentine Confederation was defeated in the Platine War by an alliance consisting of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrientes.
• 1918 – At 11,675 ft (3,559 m) long, the Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco opened as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at the time.
• 1998 – A U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler inadvertently severed a cable supporting a cable-car gondola in Cavalese, Italy, killing 20 passengers.
• 2010 – An edition of L'Homme qui marche I, a bronze sculpture by Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million, setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at auction.