About February 4

February 4, 2023 is the 35th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 371 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 4

  • 1454 –
    In the Thirteen Years’ War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
  • 1797 –
    The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
  • 1810 –
    The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
  • 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.
  • 1916 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dragon in Chinese astrology.
  • 1932 –
    Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
  • 1936 –
    Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
  • 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.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The Yalta Conference between the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
  • 1969 –
    Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1980 –
    Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
  • 1992 –
    A Coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
  • 1997 –
    After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
  • 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.
  • 2004 –
    Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
  • 2008 –
    The London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) scheme begins to operate in the UK.
  • 2010 –
    The Federal Court of Australia’s ruling in Roadshow Films v iiNet sets a precedent that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them.

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