February, 3
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- 1488 The Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias lands in the Bay of Mossel after dubbing the Cape of Good Hope at the southern end of Africa, becoming the first European known to have gone so far south
- 1966 The Soviet shuttle Luna 9 makes the first landing
- 1985 Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg
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