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
- 211 –Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians.He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
- 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.
- 1794 –The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
- 1810 –The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
- 1825 –The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- 1941 –The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- 1945 –World War II: The Yalta Conference between the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
- 1966 –All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.
- 2003 –The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
- 2006 –A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.
- 2038 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
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