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.
- 1794 –The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
- 1797 –The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
- 1801 –John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1810 –The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
- 1932 –Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
- 1936 –Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
- 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.
- 1969 –Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1974 –M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
- 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.
- 1992 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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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