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What Happened on February 4th This Day in History

Year Name
2020 The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days.[16]
2015 TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people.
2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
2000 The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.[12][13]
1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
1998 The 5.9 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
1997 En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
1997 The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw  6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages.
1992 A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1977 A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1976 In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1975 Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1974 M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
1967 Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1961 The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1945 World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
1941 The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1938 Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
1899 The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
1861 American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six breakaway U.S. states meet and initiate the process that would form the Confederate States of America on February 8
1859 The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1846 The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1825 The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1820 The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the two-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and two ships.
1810 Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
1801 John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1797 The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1794 The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic.
1789 George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1758 The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga Cabral.
1703 In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1555 John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
1454 Thirteen Years' War: The Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, sparking the Thirteen Years' War.
1169 A strong earthquake strikes the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
960 The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
211 Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling sons, Caracalla and Geta, whom he had instructed to make peace.
Famous People Born on February 4

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Year Name
1920 Janet Waldo, American actress and voice artist (d. 2016)
1943 Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language
1881 Eulalio Gutiérrez, Mexican general and politician, President of Mexico (d. 1939)
1575 Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian, founded the French school of spirituality (d. 1629)
1984 Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer (d. 2013)
1962 Clint Black, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1906 Letitia Dunbar-Harrison, Irish librarian (d. 1994)
1952 Jenny Shipley, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1799 Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (d. 1854)
1972 Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian and television host
Famous People Deaths On February 4

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Date Name
1970 Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
1956 Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
1774 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
2015 Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American colonel and pilot (b. 1925)
2018 John Mahoney, English-American actor, voice artist, and comedian (b. 1940)
1944 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
1505 Jeanne de Valois, daughter of Louis XI of France (b. 1464)
2016 Edgar Mitchell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
1992 John Dehner, American actor (b. 1915)
1590 Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1517)