On this day - 3 February

Klaus Fuchs was a theoretical physicist who worked on numerous projects of scientific and national security significance including the British atomic bomb project and the American Manhattan project. He confessed to providing information to the Soviet Union and was charged on February 3rd 1950 under the Official Secrets Act. He was sentenced to fourteen years in prison and was stripped of his British citizenship. He served 9 years and, on his release, migrated to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

Lana Clarkson was an American actress who was found murdered on February 3rd 2003 at the home of Phil Spector. Spector was a record producer who had met Clarkson while she was working at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. Clarkson was found with a gunshot wound to her mouth.

The initial trial of Spector in 2007 for the murder ended in a hung jury and was declared a mistrial. A second trial took place in 2009 and Spector was found guilty and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison.