SomeFacts | February 4

On this day - February 4

211 — Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at ...

960 — Zhao Kuangyin declares himself Emperor Taizu of Song, ending ...

1169 — A strong earthquake strikes the Ionian coast of Sicily, ...

1454 — Thirteen Years' War: The Secret Council of the Prussian ...

1555 — John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English ...

1703 — In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin ...

1758 — The city of Macapá in Brazil is founded by Sebastião Veiga ...

1789 — George Washington is unanimously elected as the first ...

1794 — The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all ...

1797 — The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 ...

1801 — John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United ...

1810 — Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.

1820 — The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes ...

1825 — The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio ...

1846 — The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, ...

1859 — The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.

1861 — American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six ...

1899 — The Philippine–American War begins when four Filipino soldiers ...

1932 — Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.

1938 — Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High ...

1941 — The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain ...

1945 — World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese ...

1945 — World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big ...

1945 — World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from ...

1948 — Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within ...

1961 — The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese ...

1966 — All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing ...

1967 — Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape ...

1974 — M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ...

1974 — The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in ...

1975 — Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) ...

1976 — In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.

1977 — A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another ...

1992 — A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan ...

1997 — The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw 6.5 strikes Iran. With a ...

1997 — En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 ...

1998 — The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province ...

1999 — Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 19 times ...

2000 — The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, ...

2003 — The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, ...

2004 — Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is ...

2008 — Civic mobilizations in Colombia against FARC, under the name A ...

2015 — TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en ...

2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed ...

2025 — Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education ...