About February 4

February 4, 2025 is the 35th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

What Happened On February 4

  • 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.
  • 1859 –
    The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
  • 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.
  • 1948 –
    Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1997 –
    En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
  • 2004 –
    Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
  • 2006 –
    A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.
  • 2008 –
    The London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) scheme begins to operate in the UK.

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