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.
- 1454 –In the Thirteen Years’ War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
- 1703 –In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.
- 1801 –John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
- 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.
- 1825 –The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- 1859 –The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
- 1932 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
- 1935 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 1976 –In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- 1996 –Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F (-32.2°C)
- 1999 –The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
- 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.
- 2000 –German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
- 2002 –Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.
- 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.
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