February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of the year (331 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
This day marks the approximate midpoint of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and of summer in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the December solstice).
NATIONAL THANK A MAIL CARRIER DAY
1789 – George Washington becomes the first and only president to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College. He repeated this notable feat on the same day in 1792.
1846 – Mormons leave Nauvoo, IL, for settlement in the west.
1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. It is one of the four great uncial codices, an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible. The codex is a celebrated historical treasure.
1880 – The Black Donnelly massacre occurs. James (63), Johannah (56), John (32), Thomas (25) and Bridget (21) Donnelly are murdered in their home by members of the Vigilance Committee.
This day marks the approximate midpoint of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and of summer in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the December solstice).
NATIONAL THANK A MAIL CARRIER DAY
1789 – George Washington becomes the first and only president to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College. He repeated this notable feat on the same day in 1792.
1822 – Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa.
1846 – Mormons leave Nauvoo, IL, for settlement in the west.
1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. It is one of the four great uncial codices, an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible. The codex is a celebrated historical treasure.
1861 – On this day in 1861, the Confederacy is open for business when the Provisional Confederate Congress convenes in Montgomery, Alabama.
1880 – The Black Donnelly massacre occurs. James (63), Johannah (56), John (32), Thomas (25) and Bridget (21) Donnelly are murdered in their home by members of the Vigilance Committee.
1922 – On February 4, 1922, the Ford Motor Company acquires the failing luxury automaker Lincoln Motor Company for $8 million.
1924 – The first Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix, France.
1945 – Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of WWII.
1969 – The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
1974 – On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by two black men and a white woman, all three of whom are armed.
1991 – The Baseball Hall of Fame's board of directors votes 12-0 to bar Pete Rose for gambling on baseball.
1997 – Pittsburgh center, Mario Lemieux, becomes the seventh NHL player to score 600 goals in a career.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (d. 1731)
1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (d. 1953)
1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (d. 1974)
1940 – George A. Romero, American director and producer
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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