About February 4
February 4, 2024 is the 35th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 331 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 6 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 4
- 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.
- 1703 –In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.
- 1789 –George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
- 1820 –The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
- 1846 –The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
- 1899 –The Philippine-American War begins.
- 1905 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 1932 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
- 1941 –The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- 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.
- 1966 –All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
- 1969 –Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1974 –The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
- 1975 –Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
- 1976 –In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- 1980 –Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
- 1997 –After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
- 1997 –En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
- 1999 –Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
- 2003 –The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
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