What events happened on February 4?
🇺🇳 World Cancer Day.
🇺🇳 International Human Fraternity Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇵🇭 Philippines – Philippine-American War Remembrance Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Hemp Day.
🇺🇸 USA – USO Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Rosa Parks Day.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Independence Day.
🇦🇴 Angola – Freedom Movement Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – Farmers’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 634 – First Arab-Byzantine War: Muslim troops led by Amr ibn al-Aas defeat the Byzantines at the Battle of Datin.
– 900 – Louis IV the Child ascends the throne of the East Franks at the Congress of Forchheim.
– 960 – Tai Tzu becomes Emperor of China. The Sun Dynasty begins.
– 1169 – An earthquake in eastern Sicily kills 15,000 people.
– 1194 – Henry VI Hohenstaufen frees King Richard I of England for ransom.
– 1348 – In Japan, the Northern Court troops defeat the Southern Court troops at the Battle of Shijonawata.
– 1508 – Maximilian Habsburg is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Trento.
– 1703 – The Aco Revenge.
– 1719 – Peter I issues a decree on the first census of the population of the Russian Empire.
– 1755 – Empress Elizabeth Petrovna signs a decree on the establishment of Moscow University.
– 1789 – George Washington is elected the first President of the United States.
– 1794 – French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes slavery in France and its colonies.
– 1797 – Riobamba, Ecuador, is completely destroyed by an earthquake. An estimated 40,000 people die.
– 1824 – American inventor and entrepreneur Charles Goodrich introduces rubber boots to the public in Boston.
– 1857 – Neanderthal Day: Neanderthals are first introduced to the scientific community.
– 1858 – Hermann Goldschmidt discovers the asteroid Europa 52.
– 1861 – The Confederate States of America is formed.
– 1899 – Wake Atoll is annexed by the United States as a no-man’s land.
– 1899 – The Philippine-American War begins.
– 1899 – Werder Bremen (Germany) football club is founded.
– 1911 – Rolls-Royce introduces the emblem for its cars.
– 1915 – World War I: Germany declares a naval blockade of the British Isles, marking the beginning of unrestricted submarine warfare.
– 1921 – Baron Ungern liberates the Mongolian capital of Urga from Chinese troops.
– 1944 – American scientists prove that DNA stores and transmits hereditary characteristics in living organisms.
– 1945 – The Crimean Conference begins.
– 1945 – Belgium is completely liberated from German occupation.
– 1948 – Sri Lanka declares independence.
– 1949 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is assassinated in Iran.
– 1961 – The Angolan War of Independence begins.
– 1971 – British car and aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce Limited is nationalized as a result of bankruptcy.
– 1976 – The XII Winter Olympic Games opened in Innsbruck (Austria).
– 1977 – Kenya Airways, the national airline of Kenya, was founded.
– 1980 – Abulhassan Banisadr became the first president of Iran.
– 1992 – Hugo Chavez attempted a coup in Venezuela.
– 1994 – A computer communication network (since 1996 UzPAK) was established in Tashkent.
– 1994 – Uzbekistan joined the International Road Transport Association.
– 1997 – The new Constitution of South Africa came into force.
– 1998 – The “Ustoz” Foundation was established.
