{"id":2770,"date":"2019-02-04T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:17:13","slug":"history-of-4-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-4-february\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 4 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 4 February<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1941\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0United Service Organization\u00a0(USO) is created to entertain American troops.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1945\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0World War II:\u00a0Santo Tomas Internment Camp\u00a0is liberated from Japanese authority.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1945<\/strong> \u2013 World War II: The\u00a0Yalta Conference\u00a0between the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; (Churchill,\u00a0Roosevelt, and\u00a0Stalin) opens at the\u00a0Livadia Palace\u00a0in the\u00a0Crimea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1945<\/strong> \u2013 World War II: The\u00a0British Indian Army\u00a0and\u00a0Imperial Japanese Army\u00a0begin a series of battles known as the\u00a0Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1948\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Ceylon\u00a0(later renamed\u00a0Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the\u00a0British Commonwealth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1961\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0Angolan War of Independence\u00a0and the greater\u00a0Portuguese Colonial War\u00a0begin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1966\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0All Nippon Airways Flight 60\u00a0plunges into\u00a0Tokyo Bay, killing 133.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1967\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Lunar Orbiter program:\u00a0Lunar Orbiter 3\u00a0lifts off from\u00a0Cape Canaveral&#8217;s\u00a0Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the\u00a0Surveyor\u00a0and\u00a0Apollo spacecraft.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1969\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Yasser Arafat\u00a0takes over as chairman of the\u00a0Palestine Liberation Organization.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0Symbionese Liberation Army\u00a0kidnaps\u00a0Patty Hearst\u00a0in\u00a0Berkeley, California.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0M62 coach bombing: The\u00a0Provisional Irish Republican Army\u00a0(IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty\u00a0British Armed Forces\u00a0personnel in\u00a0Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1975\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Haicheng earthquake\u00a0(magnitude 7.3 on the\u00a0Richter scale) occurs in\u00a0Haicheng, Liaoning, China.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1976\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 In\u00a0Guatemala\u00a0and\u00a0Honduras,\u00a0an\u00a0earthquake\u00a0kills more than 22,000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1977\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A\u00a0Chicago Transit Authority\u00a0elevated train\u00a0rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency&#8217;s history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A\u00a0coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat\u00a0is led by\u00a0Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u00a0against\u00a0Venezuelan\u00a0President\u00a0Carlos Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 En route to\u00a0Lebanon, two Israeli\u00a0Sikorsky CH-53\u00a0troop-transport helicopters\u00a0collide in mid-air\u00a0over northern Galilee,\u00a0Israel\u00a0killing 73.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The 5.9 \u00a0Afghanistan earthquake\u00a0shakes the\u00a0Takhar Province\u00a0with a maximum\u00a0Mercalli intensity\u00a0of VII (<i>Very strong<\/i>). With 2,323 killed and 818 injured, the damage is considered extreme.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Unarmed West African immigrant\u00a0Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times\u00a0by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The\u00a0Federal Republic of Yugoslavia\u00a0adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2004\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Facebook, a mainstream online\u00a0social networking site, is founded by\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2015\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0TransAsia Airways Flight 235\u00a0with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital\u00a0Taipei\u00a0to\u00a0Kinmen, crashes into the\u00a0Keelung River\u00a0just after take-off, killing 43 people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday\u2019s Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1961\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Stewart O&#8217;Nan, American novelist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1961<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player, and coach<\/li>\n<li><strong>1962\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Clint Black, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1962<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Stephen Hammond, English banker, and politician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1963\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier<\/li>\n<li><strong>1965\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1966\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Tony Butterfield, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1966<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1967\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1970\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Gabrielle Anwar, English actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1971\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Rob Corddry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1971<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Eric Garcetti, American lieutenant, and politician, 42nd\u00a0Mayor of Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li><strong>1972\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Dara \u00d3 Briain, Irish comedian, and television host<\/li>\n<li><strong>1972<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer, and manager<\/li>\n<li><strong>1973\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1973<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0James Hird, Australian footballer, and coach<\/li>\n<li><strong>1973<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Manny Legace, Canadian ice hockey player, and sportscaster<\/li>\n<li><strong>1975\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1977\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Gavin DeGraw, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1979\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Giorgio Pantano, Italian race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1980\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Raimonds Vaikulis, Latvian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Jason Kapono, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Johan Vansummeren, Belgian cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Chris Sabin, American wrestler<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ivars Timermanis, Latvian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rebecca White, Australian politician<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1984\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer (d. 2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Maximilian G\u00f6tz, German race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Darren O&#8217;Dea, Irish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013 Lucie \u0160af\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e1, a Czech tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Carly Patterson, American gymnast, and singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Bae Noo-ri, South Korean actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Maximilian W\u00f6ber, Austrian footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 4 February 1941\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0United Service Organization\u00a0(USO) is created to entertain American troops. 1945\u00a0\u2013\u00a0World War II:\u00a0Santo Tomas Internment Camp\u00a0is liberated from Japanese authority. 1945 \u2013 World War II: The\u00a0Yalta Conference\u00a0between the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; (Churchill,\u00a0Roosevelt, and\u00a0Stalin) opens at the\u00a0Livadia Palace\u00a0in the\u00a0Crimea. 1945 \u2013 World War II: The\u00a0British Indian Army\u00a0and\u00a0Imperial Japanese Army\u00a0begin a series of battles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[627,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-2770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-4-february","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-IG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}