Notable Historical Events on February 4th
February 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
211 |
Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta. |
960 |
The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries. |
1194 |
100,000 ransom is paid for Richard I, King of England |
1454 |
In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master. |
1508 |
Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned |
1586 |
Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor-general of the States General of the United Provinces (Netherlands) |
1600 |
Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for first time near Prague |
1620 |
Prince Bethlen Gabor of Hungary signs peace with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II |
1657 |
Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal |
1697 |
Three Dutch East India Company ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia |
1699 |
350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow |
1703 |
In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death. |
1782 |
British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet |
1783 |
Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy) |
1784 |
1st unmanned balloon flight in Ireland |
1787 |
1st Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London |
1787 |
Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails |
1789 |
1st US electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as President and Vice-President |
1794 |
French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery |
1797 |
Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000 |
1803 |
William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature" |
1810 |
Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe. |
1822 |
Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa |
1824 |
J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public |
1846 |
Mormons leave Nauvoo, Illinois for settlement in the west |
1847 |
1st US telegraph co established in Maryland |
1849 |
University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students |
1854 |
Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc |
1855 |
Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela |
1859 |
The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. |
1861 |
Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time; Jefferson Davis elected president of Confederacy (US Civil War) |
1864 |
Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi |
1865 |
Hawaiian Board of Education formed |
1865 |
Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of Confederate forces |
1866 |
Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible |
1880 |
Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in NYC |
1880 |
The Black donnelly massacre. James (63), Johannah (56), John (32), Thomas (25) and Bridget (21) Donnelly are murdered in their home by members of the Vigilance Committee |
1887 |
Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads |
1895 |
1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago |
1899 |
The Philippine-American War begins with fighting between American and Philippine revolutionary forces |
1901 |
Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, gives a speech condemning the demands of national groups and calls for economic and social reform |
1903 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie |
1904 |
John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin |
1913 |
Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim |
1913 |
National Institute of Arts & Letters founded |
1914 |
US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law |
1915 |
Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary |
1917 |
Belgian Council of Flanders established |
1919 |
City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown |
1920 |
1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (lasts 1½ months) |
1922 |
WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions |
1924 |
1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France |
1924 |
George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in NYC |
1926 |
Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany |
1927 |
KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions |
1929 |
Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide |
1930 |
1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans |
1931 |
National League adopts a deader baseball |
1932 |
3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY |
1932 |
Japanese troops occupy Harbin, Manchuria |
1933 |
-Feb 10] Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts |
1933 |
German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press |
1936 |
1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) |
1937 |
Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games |
1938 |
"Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway |
1938 |
Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts |
1938 |
Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is officially released |
1939 |
Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort |
1941 |
British tanks occupy Maus, Libya |
1941 |
Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin |
1941 |
United Service Organization (USO) founded |
1942 |
Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II |
1943 |
Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich |
1944 |
Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris |
1944 |
US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein |
1945 |
Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of the war |
1946 |
Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in NYC |
1948 |
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK |
1949 |
Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia |
1951 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer |
1951 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
1952 |
1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC NY) |
1956 |
AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training |
1957 |
1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY) |
1958 |
"Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances |
1958 |
Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950 |
1959 |
Israel begins exporting copper ore |
1960 |
BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member |
1960 |
Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park |
1960 |
Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres |
1961 |
Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure |
1962 |
"Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances |
1962 |
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game |
1962 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles |
1962 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt |
1964 |
FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City |
1965 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1966 |
All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 |
1967 |
"Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby |
1967 |
US launches Lunar Orbiter 3 |
1968 |
"Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances |
1968 |
Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball |
1969 |
The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO |
1969 |
41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost |
1969 |
Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman, as general cousel to Apple |
1969 |
John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders |
1969 |
Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in NYC |
1970 |
"Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances |
1970 |
"Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance |
1970 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1971 |
Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks |
1971 |
British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt |
1971 |
Government exhibit under construction in Brazil collapses, kills 65 |
1971 |
National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC |
1971 |
Lieutenant-General Vernon Erskine-Crum becomes General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland |
1972 |
6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria |
1972 |
Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported |
1973 |
"No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances |
1973 |
Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game |
1973 |
Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec) |
1973 |
Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled |
1973 |
British Army snipers shoot dead a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and three civilians at the junction in Belfast during the 'Troubles' in N Ireland |
1974 |
Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months |
1974 |
Petroleum rationing ends in Netherlands |
1974 |
Patricia Hearst (19), daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army |
1974 |
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus as it traveled along the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire, England carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members; nine British Army soldiers and three civilians are killed |
1975 |
Haicheng earthquake, M 7.3, occurred in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. |
1976 |
12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria |
1976 |
7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras |
1976 |
US Federal Judge Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver |
1977 |
Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt) |
1977 |
Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released |
1977 |
Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed" |
1979 |
"Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut & cancelled that outing on CBS |
1979 |
End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 yrs (WSC, SCG) |
1979 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
1980 |
Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran |
1980 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
1982 |
"Pump Boys & Dinettes" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 573 perfs |
1982 |
Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash |
1982 |
Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes," premieres in NYC |
1982 |
Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees |
1983 |
Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium |
1983 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
1984 |
"9" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances |
1984 |
"Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore |
1984 |
Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas |
1985 |
20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture |
1985 |
Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons |
1986 |
38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford |
1986 |
Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner |
1987 |
Pres Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress |
1987 |
Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup |
1987 |
Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 |
1988 |
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges |
1989 |
Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval |
1990 |
10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo |
1990 |
Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81) |
1990 |
Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04) |
1990 |
Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69) |
1990 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21 |
1990 |
Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
1990 |
Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar) |
1990 |
St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship |
1991 |
Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose |
1991 |
Martin Crowe & Andrew Jones make 467 stand v SL, world record |
1991 |
US postage raises from 25 cents to 29 cents |
1993 |
Admiral William Studeman ends term as acting director of CIA |
1993 |
Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror |
1994 |
10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
1994 |
20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartoum, Sudan |
1994 |
Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec) |
1994 |
Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71) |
1995 |
Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia |
1995 |
Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77) |
1995 |
Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning |
1996 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13 |
1997 |
Mario Lemieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals |
1997 |
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish |
1997 |
En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73. |
1997 |
After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections. |
1998 |
Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium |
1998 |
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000. |
1999 |
MV New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon. |
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. |
2000 |
German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines. |
2001 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 38-17 |
2003 |
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution. |
2006 |
A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71. |
2007 |
Super Bowl XLI: Indianapolis Colts beat Chicago Bears, 29-17 at the Dolphin Stadium MVP: Peyton Manning, Indianapolis, QB |
2012 |
Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland |
2013 |
20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria |
2013 |
22 people are killed and 44 are injured after a suicide bombing in Taji, Iraq |
2013 |
8 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus collides with two vehicles and flips in Yucaipa, California |
2013 |
22 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus and a truck collide in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates |
2013 |
Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing |
2014 |
10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India |
2014 |
Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland |
2016 |
North Korea's Rocket Plans Seen as Disrespectful of China |
2016 |
Judge Allows Bill Cosby Sexual Assault Case to Go Forward |
2016 |
Julian Assange says he'll 'accept arrest' if UN panel rules against him |
2016 |
NFL will air domestic violence PSA during Super Bowl 50 |
2016 |
TNT caused explosion on Somali airliner |
2017 |
More than 9.2 million sign for Obamacare during open enrollment |
2018 |
Patriots QB Tom Brady picks up third league MVP award of career |
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