Today, February 4 is a topic that has gained unprecedented relevance in today's society. Since its emergence, it has aroused widespread interest and has generated a series of debates and reflections in various areas. February 4 has impacted people's lives significantly, influencing their decisions, behaviors and perceptions. In this article, we will explore in depth the impact of February 4 on society today, as well as the implications it has for the future. We will analyze different perspectives and opinions about February 4 , with the aim of offering a comprehensive and objective vision of this topic that is so relevant today.
Day of the year
February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 330 days remain until the end of the year (331 in leap years ).
Events
Pre–1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War : Harbin , Manchuria , falls to Japan .
1938 – Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command .
1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 – World War II : Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill , Roosevelt , and Stalin ) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea .
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 .
1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka ) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth .
1961 – The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay , killing 133.
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.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California .
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.
1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale ) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning , China.
1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
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.
1992 – A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez .
1997 – En route to Lebanon , two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
1997 – The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw 6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages.
1998 – The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong ). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
2000 – The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO , Koichiro Matsuura , initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
2004 – Facebook , a mainstream online social networking site , is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin .
2008 – Civic mobilizations in Colombia against FARC , under the name A million voices against the FARC .
2015 – TransAsia Airways Flight 235 , with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen , crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people.
2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days.
Births
Pre–1600
1601–1900
1646 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann , German poet and politician (d. 1699)
1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach , German violinist and composer (d. 1731)
1688 – Pierre de Marivaux , French author and playwright (d. 1763)
1725 – Dru Drury , English entomologist and author (d. 1804)
1740 – Carl Michael Bellman , Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)
1778 – Augustin Pyramus de Candolle , Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (d. 1841)
1799 – Almeida Garrett , Portuguese journalist and author (d. 1854)
1818 – Emperor Norton , San Francisco eccentric and visionary (d. 1880)
1831 – Oliver Ames , American financier and politician, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1848 – Jean Aicard , French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1921)
1849 – Jean Richepin , French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1926)
1862 – Édouard Estaunié , French novelist (d. 1942)
1865 – Abe Isoo , Japanese minister and politician (d. 1949)
1868 – Constance Markievicz , Irish revolutionary and first woman elected to the UK House of Commons (d. 1927)
1869 – Bill Haywood , American labor organizer (d. 1928)
1871 – Friedrich Ebert , German lawyer and politician, first President of Germany (d. 1925)
1872 – Gotse Delchev , Bulgarian and Macedonian revolutionary activist (d. 1903)
1873 – Étienne Desmarteau , Canadian shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1905)
1875 – Ludwig Prandtl , German physicist and engineer (d. 1953)
1877 – Eddie Cochems , American football player and coach (d. 1953)
1881 – Eulalio Gutiérrez , Mexican general and politician, President of Mexico (d. 1939)
1881 – Fernand Léger , French painter and sculptor (d. 1955)
1881 – Kliment Voroshilov , Soviet politician and Marshal of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Defence (d. 1969)
1883 – Reinhold Rudenberg , German-American inventor and a pioneer of electron microscopy (d. 1961)
1891 – M. A. Ayyangar , Indian lawyer and politician, second Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1978)
1892 – E. J. Pratt , Canadian poet and academic (d. 1964)
1893 – Raymond Dart , Australian paleoanthropologist (d. 1988)
1895 – Nigel Bruce , English actor (d. 1953)
1896 – Friedrich Glauser , Austrian-Swiss author (d. 1938)
1896 – Friedrich Hund , German physicist and academic (d. 1997)
1897 – Ludwig Erhard , German soldier and politician, second Chancellor of West Germany (d. 1977)
1899 – Virginia M. Alexander , American physician and founder of the Aspiranto Health Home (d. 1949)
1900 – Jacques Prévert , French poet and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1901–present
1902 – Charles Lindbergh , American pilot and explorer (d. 1974)
1902 – Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross , German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (d. 2003)
1903 – Alexander Imich , Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (d. 2014)
1904 – MacKinlay Kantor , American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1904 – Deng Yingchao , Chinese politician, Chairwoman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (d. 1968)
1905 – Hylda Baker , English comedian, actress and music hall performer (d. 1986)
1906 – Dietrich Bonhoeffer , German pastor and theologian (d. 1945)
1906 – Letitia Dunbar-Harrison , Irish librarian (d. 1994)
1906 – Clyde Tombaugh , American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (d. 1997)
1908 – Julian Bell , English poet and academic (d. 1937)
1912 – Ola Skjåk Bræk , Norwegian banker and politician, Norwegian Minister of Industry (d. 1999)
1912 – Erich Leinsdorf , Austrian-American conductor (d. 1993)
1912 – Byron Nelson , American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2006)
1913 – Rosa Parks , American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
1914 – Alfred Andersch , German-Swiss author and publisher (d. 1980)
1915 – William Talman , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1915 – Norman Wisdom , English comedian, actor and singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1917 – Yahya Khan , Pakistan general and politician, third President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
1918 – Ida Lupino , English-American actress and director (d. 1995)
1918 – Luigi Pareyson , Italian philosopher and author (d. 1991)
1920 – Janet Waldo , American actress and voice artist (d. 2016)
1921 – Betty Friedan , American author and feminist (d. 2006)
1921 – Lotfi Zadeh , Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017)
1922 – Bhimsen Joshi , Indian vocalist of the Hindustani classical music tradition (d. 2011)
1923 – Conrad Bain , Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
1925 – Russell Hoban , American author and illustrator (d. 2011)
1925 – Stanley Karnow , American journalist and historian (d. 2013)
1925 – Christopher Zeeman , English mathematician and academic (d. 2016)
1926 – Gyula Grosics , Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1927 – Rolf Landauer , German-American physicist and academic (d. 1999)
1928 – Oscar Cabalén , Argentinian racing driver (d. 1967)
1928 – Osmo Antero Wiio , Finnish journalist, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
1929 – Jerry Adler , American actor, director, and producer
1929 – Paul Burlison , American musician (d. 2003)
1929 – Neil Johnston , American basketball player (d. 1978)
1930 – Tibor Antalpéter , Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat, Hungarian Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 2012)
1930 – Arthur E. Chase , American businessman and politician (d. 2015)
1930 – Jim Loscutoff , American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1931 – Isabel Perón , Argentinian dancer and politician, 41st President of Argentina
1935 – Wallis Mathias , Pakistani cricketer (d. 1994)
1935 – Martti Talvela , Finnish opera singer (d. 1989)
1935 – Collin Wilcox , American actress (d. 2009)
1936 – David Brenner , American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2014)
1936 – Gary Conway , American actor
1936 – Claude Nobs , Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (d. 2013)
1937 – Birju Maharaj , Indian dancer, composer, singer and exponent of the Lucknow "Kalka-Bindadin" Gharana of Kathak dance (d. 2022)
1937 – David Newman , American director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1938 – Frank J. Dodd , American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate (d. 2010)
1939 – Stan Lundine , American lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New York
1940 – George A. Romero , American director and producer (d. 2017)
1940 – John Schuck , American actor
1941 – Russell Cooper , Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Queensland
1941 – Ron Rangi , New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988)
1941 – Jiří Raška , Czech skier and coach (d. 2012)
1941 – John Steel , English musician and songwriter
1943 – Alberto João Jardim , Portuguese journalist and politician, second President of the Regional Government of Madeira
1943 – Wanda Rutkiewicz , Lithuanian-Polish mountaineer (d. 1992)
1943 – Ken Thompson , American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language
1944 – Florence LaRue , American singer and actress
1944 – Alan Shields , American artist and ship captain (d. 2005)
1947 – Dennis C. Blair , American admiral and politician, third Director of National Intelligence
1947 – Dan Quayle , American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 44th Vice President of the United States
1948 – Alice Cooper , American singer-songwriter
1948 – Mienoumi Tsuyoshi , Japanese sumo wrestler
1949 – Michael Beck , American actor
1949 – Rasim Delić , Bosnian general (d. 2010)
1951 – Patrick Bergin , Irish actor
1952 – Lisa Eichhorn , American actress, writer, and producer
1952 – Jenny Shipley , New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand
1952 – Thomas Silverstein , American criminal and prisoner (d. 2019)
1955 – Mikuláš Dzurinda , Slovak politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia
1957 – Matthew Cobb , British zoologist and author
1958 – Tomasz Pacyński , Polish journalist and author (d. 2005)
1959 – Christian Schreier , German footballer and manager
1959 – Lawrence Taylor , American football player
1960 – Siobhan Dowd , English author and activist (d. 2007)
1960 – Jonathan Larson , American lyricist, composer, and playwright (d. 1996)
1961 – Denis Savard , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 – Clint Black , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1962 – Vern Fleming , American basketball player
1963 – Noodles , American musician and songwriter
1963 – Pirmin Zurbriggen , Swiss skier
1964 – Elke Philipp , German Paralympic equestrian
1965 – Jerome Brown , American football player (d. 1992)
1966 – Viatcheslav Ekimov , Russian cyclist
1967 – Sergei Grinkov , Russian figure skater (d. 1995)
1970 – Gabrielle Anwar , English-American actress
1970 – Hunter Biden , American attorney and lobbyist
1971 – Rob Corddry , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Michael A. Goorjian , American actor, director, and writer
1972 – Giovanni , Brazilian footballer and manager
1972 – Dara Ó Briain , Irish comedian and television host
1973 – Oscar De La Hoya , American boxer
1975 – Natalie Imbruglia , Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1976 – Cam'ron , American rapper and actor
1977 – Gavin DeGraw , American singer-songwriter
1979 – Giorgio Pantano , Italian racing driver
1980 – Raimonds Vaikulis , Latvian basketball player
1981 – Jason Kapono , American basketball player
1981 – Johan Vansummeren , Belgian cyclist
1982 – Ivars Timermanis , Latvian basketball player
1983 – Hannibal Buress , American comedian and actor
1983 – Rebecca White , Australian politician
1984 – Doug Fister , American baseball player
1984 – Mauricio Pinilla , Chilean footballer
1986 – Maximilian Götz , German racing driver
1986 – Mahmudullah Riyad , Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 – Darren O'Dea , Irish footballer
1987 – Lucie Šafářová , Czech tennis player
1988 – Charlie Barnett , American actor
1988 – Carly Patterson , American gymnast and singer
1989 – Lavoy Allen , American basketball player
1996 – Mohamed Sherif , Egyptian footballer
1998 – Malik Monk , American basketball player
1998 – Maximilian Wöber , Austrian footballer
2003 – Kyla Kenedy , American actress
2003 – Rasmus Højlund , Danish footballer
Deaths
Pre–1600
1601–1900
1615 – Giambattista della Porta , Italian playwright and scholar (b. 1535)
1617 – Lodewijk Elzevir , Dutch publisher, co-founded the House of Elzevir (b. 1546)
1713 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury , English philosopher and politician (b. 1671)
1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine , French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1781 – Josef Mysliveček , Czech composer (b. 1737)
1799 – Étienne-Louis Boullée , French architect and educator (b. 1728)
1843 – Theodoros Kolokotronis , Greek general (b. 1770)
1891 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos , Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (b. 1816)
1901–present
1905 – Louis-Ernest Barrias , French sculptor and academic (b. 1841)
1912 – Franz Reichelt , French tailor and inventor (b. 1878)
1926 – İskilipli Âtıf Hodja , Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
1928 – Hendrik Lorentz , Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1933 – Archibald Sayce , English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
1936 – Wilhelm Gustloff , German-Swiss soldier, founded Swiss NSDAP/AO (b. 1895)
1940 – Nikolai Yezhov , Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
1943 – Frank Calder , English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
1944 – Arsen Kotsoyev , Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
1956 – Savielly Tartakower , Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
1958 – Henry Kuttner , American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1959 – Una O'Connor , Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
1968 – Neal Cassady , American novelist and poet (b. 1926)
1970 – Louise Bogan , American poet and critic (b. 1897)
1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose , Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)
1975 – Louis Jordan , American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1908)
1982 – Alex Harvey , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
1982 – Georg Konrad Morgen , German lawyer and judge (b. 1909)
1983 – Karen Carpenter , American singer (b. 1950)
1987 – Liberace , American singer-songwriter and pianist, (b. 1919)
1987 – Meena Keshwar Kamal , Afghan activist, founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (b. 1956)
1987 – Carl Rogers , American psychologist and academic (b. 1902)
1990 – Whipper Billy Watson , Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
1992 – John Dehner , American actor (b. 1915)
1995 – Patricia Highsmith , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1921)
2000 – Carl Albert , American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
2002 – Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
2003 – Benyoucef Benkhedda , Algerian pharmacist and politician (b. 1920)
2004 – Hilda Hilst , Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright (b. 1930)
2005 – Ossie Davis , American actor, director, and playwright (b. 1917)
2006 – Betty Friedan , American author and activist (b. 1921)
2007 – José Carlos Bauer , Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
2007 – Ilya Kormiltsev , Russian-English poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 – Barbara McNair , American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2007 – Jules Olitski , Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2007 – Alfred Worm , Austrian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1945)
2008 – Augusta Dabney , American actress (b. 1918)
2008 – Stefan Meller , Polish academic and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (b. 1942)
2010 – Kostas Axelos , Greek-French philosopher and author (b. 1924)
2010 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg , Estonian-American composer (b. 1919)
2011 – Martial Célestin , Haitian lawyer and politician, first Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1913)
2012 – István Csurka , Hungarian journalist and politician (b. 1934)
2012 – Florence Green , English soldier (b. 1901)
2012 – Robert Daniel , American farmer, soldier, and politician (b. 1936)
2012 – Mike deGruy , American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1951)
2012 – Susanne Suba , Hungarian-born watercolorist and illustrator, active in the United States (b. 1913)
2013 – Donald Byrd , American trumpet player (b. 1932)
2013 – Reg Presley , English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2014 – Keith Allen , Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
2014 – Eugenio Corti , Italian soldier, author, and playwright (b. 1921)
2014 – Dennis Lota , Zambian footballer (b. 1973)
2015 – Fitzhugh L. Fulton , American colonel and pilot (b. 1925)
2016 – Edgar Mitchell , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
2017 – Steve Lang , Canadian bass player (b. 1949)
2017 – Bano Qudsia , Pakistani writer (b. 1928)
2018 – John Mahoney , English-American actor, voice artist, and comedian (b. 1940)
2019 – Matti Nykänen , Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b. 1963)
2020 – Daniel arap Moi , Former President of Kenya (b. 1924)
2021 – Millie Hughes-Fulford , American astronaut, molecular biologist and NASA payload specialist (b. 1945)
2023 – Vani Jairam , Indian playback singer (b. 1945)
2023 – Sherif Ismail , 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955)
2024 – Barry John , Welsh rugby player (b. 1945)
Holidays and observances
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