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Events on the 4th of February in history

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04 Feb 0211 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.
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04 Feb 0634 Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat the Christian Arabs around Gaza (Palestine).
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04 Feb 0960 The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
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04 Feb 1169 A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
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04 Feb 1454 In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
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04 Feb 1508 Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
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04 Feb 1586 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, becomes Governor of Neth
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04 Feb 1600 Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague
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04 Feb 1657 Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal
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04 Feb 1697 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
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04 Feb 1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
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04 Feb 1703 In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
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04 Feb 1758 Macapá, Brazil is founded.
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04 Feb 1782 British garrison surrenders to French and Spanish fleet
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04 Feb 1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
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04 Feb 1787 1st Anglican bishops of New York and Pennsylvania consecrated in London
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04 Feb 1789 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and VP
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04 Feb 1789 George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
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04 Feb 1794 French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
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04 Feb 1794 The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
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04 Feb 1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
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04 Feb 1797 The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
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04 Feb 1801 John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
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04 Feb 1803 William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature"
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04 Feb 1810 The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
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04 Feb 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.
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04 Feb 1822 Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
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04 Feb 1824 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
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04 Feb 1825 The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
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04 Feb 1846 Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west
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04 Feb 1846 The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
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04 Feb 1847 1st US telegraph co established in Maryland
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04 Feb 1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
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04 Feb 1854 Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party, " Ripon, Wisc
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04 Feb 1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
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04 Feb 1859 The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
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04 Feb 1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery Alabama: Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy
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04 Feb 1861 American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
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04 Feb 1864 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
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04 Feb 1864 Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
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04 Feb 1865 Hawaiian Board of Education formed
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04 Feb 1865 Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
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04 Feb 1866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
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04 Feb 1875 Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belg
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04 Feb 1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
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04 Feb 1895 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
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04 Feb 1899 Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
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04 Feb 1899 The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
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04 Feb 1903 Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 and 1 tie
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04 Feb 1904 John Millington Synges "Well of Saints, " premieres in Dublin
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04 Feb 1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
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04 Feb 1913 National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
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04 Feb 1914 US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
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04 Feb 1915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
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04 Feb 1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established
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04 Feb 1922 WGY-AM in Schenectady New York begins radio transmissions
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04 Feb 1924 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France
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04 Feb 1926 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
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04 Feb 1927 KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
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04 Feb 1930 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
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04 Feb 1931 National League adopts a deader baseball
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04 Feb 1932 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York
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04 Feb 1932 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
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04 Feb 1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
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04 Feb 1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
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04 Feb 1936 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
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04 Feb 1936 Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
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04 Feb 1937 Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
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04 Feb 1938 "Our Town, " by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
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04 Feb 1938 Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts
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04 Feb 1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
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04 Feb 1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya
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04 Feb 1941 Former Dutch Premier De Geer flies to Berlin
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04 Feb 1941 United Service Organization (USO) founded
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04 Feb 1941 The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
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04 Feb 1942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WWII
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04 Feb 1944 US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
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04 Feb 1945 FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
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04 Feb 1945 World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
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04 Feb 1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
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04 Feb 1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
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04 Feb 1948 Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from the UK
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04 Feb 1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
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04 Feb 1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
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04 Feb 1951 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
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04 Feb 1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY)
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04 Feb 1956 AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
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04 Feb 1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
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04 Feb 1958 "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
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04 Feb 1958 Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
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04 Feb 1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore
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04 Feb 1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
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04 Feb 1960 Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park
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04 Feb 1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
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04 Feb 1961 Angolan War of Independence begins.
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04 Feb 1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
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04 Feb 1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
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04 Feb 1962 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
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04 Feb 1964 Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax
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04 Feb 1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Okla City
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04 Feb 1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
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04 Feb 1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
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04 Feb 1967 "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
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04 Feb 1967 US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
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04 Feb 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.
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04 Feb 1968 "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
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04 Feb 1968 Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
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04 Feb 1969 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost
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04 Feb 1969 Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple
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04 Feb 1969 Yassar Arafats takes over as Chairman of PLO
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04 Feb 1969 Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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04 Feb 1970 "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances
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04 Feb 1970 "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
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04 Feb 1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
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04 Feb 1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
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04 Feb 1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
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04 Feb 1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
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04 Feb 1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington, North Carolina
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04 Feb 1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
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04 Feb 1972 Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
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04 Feb 1973 "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 861 performances
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04 Feb 1973 Islanders and Sabres had a penalty free game
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04 Feb 1973 Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 seconds)
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04 Feb 1974 Benzine rationing ends in the Netherlands
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04 Feb 1974 Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
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04 Feb 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.
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04 Feb 1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
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04 Feb 1975 Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
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04 Feb 1976 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
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04 Feb 1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala and Honduras
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04 Feb 1976 In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
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04 Feb 1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago St. (11 die, 200 hurt)
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04 Feb 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.
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04 Feb 1979 "Co-Ed Fever, " TV Comedy, debut and cancelled that outing on CBS
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04 Feb 1979 End of last 3+day D / N game for 15 yrs (WSC, SCG)
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04 Feb 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
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04 Feb 1980 Bani Sadr sworn in as Premier of Iran
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04 Feb 1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
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04 Feb 1980 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
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04 Feb 1982 "Pump Boys & Dinettes" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 573 performances
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04 Feb 1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Washington
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04 Feb 1982 Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes, " premieres in New York City
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04 Feb 1982 Suriname Premier Chin A Sen flees
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04 Feb 1983 Jose Happart becomes Mayor of Voeren Belgium
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04 Feb 1983 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
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04 Feb 1984 "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
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04 Feb 1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas
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04 Feb 1985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
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04 Feb 1985 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons
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04 Feb 1986 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
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04 Feb 1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
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04 Feb 1987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
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04 Feb 1988 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
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04 Feb 1989 Dean Jones scores 216 vs. WI at the Adelaide Oval
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04 Feb 1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
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04 Feb 1990 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
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04 Feb 1990 Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
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04 Feb 1990 Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
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04 Feb 1990 Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
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04 Feb 1990 St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
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04 Feb 1991 Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs. SL, world record
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04 Feb 1991 US postage raises from 25 cents to 29 cents
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04 Feb 1992 A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
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04 Feb 1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting Director of CIA
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04 Feb 1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
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04 Feb 1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
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04 Feb 1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
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04 Feb 1994 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 seconds)
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04 Feb 1994 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
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04 Feb 1995 Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
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04 Feb 1996 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13
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04 Feb 1996 Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
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04 Feb 1997 Sec of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
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04 Feb 1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide
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04 Feb 1997 Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals
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04 Feb 1997 OJ Simpson found libel in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson
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04 Feb 1997 After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
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04 Feb 1997 En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
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04 Feb 1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
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04 Feb 1998 An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
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04 Feb 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.
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04 Feb 2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
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04 Feb 2003 The Bengali Hindus declare the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
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04 Feb 2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
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04 Feb 2006 A stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena near Manila, killing 71 people.
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04 Feb 2015 A TransAsia Airways aircraft with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing at least 31 people.
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