Historical Events
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
04 Feb 1508
Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
04 Feb 1586
Robert Dudley earl of Leicester becomes governor-general of the States General of the United Provinces (Netherlands)
04 Feb 1620
Prince Bethlen Gabor of Hungary signs peace with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II
04 Feb 1697
Three Dutch East India Company ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland Australia
04 Feb 1782
British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
04 Feb 1783
Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50000 in Calabria Italy
04 Feb 1787
1st Anglican bishops of NY & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
04 Feb 1787
Shays Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
04 Feb 1794
French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
04 Feb 1803
William Dunlap adapts French melodrama Voice of Nature
04 Feb 1822
Free American Blacks settle Liberia West Africa
04 Feb 1824
J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public
04 Feb 1844
Worlds oldest known Bible The Codex Sinaiticus (Sinai Bible) is discovered or stolen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf
04 Feb 1846
Mormons leave Nauvoo Illinois for settlement in the west
04 Feb 1847
1st US telegraph company established in Maryland
04 Feb 1849
University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
04 Feb 1854
Alvan Bovay proposes name Republican Party in Ripon Wisconsin
04 Feb 1855
Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro Venezuela
04 Feb 1864
Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge Mississippi
04 Feb 1880
Steele MacKays play Hazel Kirke premieres in New York City
04 Feb 1887
Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
04 Feb 1899
The Philippine-American War begins with fighting between American and Philippine revolutionary forces
04 Feb 1901
Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Franz Josef I gives a speech condemning the demands of national groups and calls for economic and social reform
04 Feb 1903
Stanley Cup Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
04 Feb 1904
John Millington Synges play Well of Saints premieres in Dublin
04 Feb 1908
Star 46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma with the addition to the Union of Oklahoma on November 16 1907
04 Feb 1913
Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
04 Feb 1914
US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
04 Feb 1915
Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary
04 Feb 1920
1st flight from London to South Africa departs (takes 1 months)
04 Feb 1922
WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
04 Feb 1922
After boycotts and international pressure Japan agrees to return Shantung Province to China
04 Feb 1924
George Kellys play Show-Off premieres in New York City
04 Feb 1924
Norway sweeps the medals in the Nordic combined event at the inaugural Chamonix Winter Olympics Thorleif Haug wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of team mates Thoralf Strmstad & Johan Grttumsbrten
04 Feb 1924
Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway wins ski jumping gold at the Chamonix Winter Olympics in 1936 he earns a silver medal in sailing at Berlin Summer Games
04 Feb 1926
Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
04 Feb 1927
KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
04 Feb 1929
Archie Jackson scores 164 in Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
04 Feb 1930
1st tieless soundless shockless streetcar tracks New Orleans
04 Feb 1932
III Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid New York
04 Feb 1933
-Feb 10] Crew of Dutch 7 Provinces mutiny after pay cuts
04 Feb 1936
1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
04 Feb 1937
Jim Margie Philadelphia bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
04 Feb 1938
Our Town by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
04 Feb 1939
Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
04 Feb 1942
Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
04 Feb 1943
Bertolt Brechts play The Good Person of Szechwan premieres in Zurich
04 Feb 1944
Jean Anouilhs play Antigone premieres in Paris
04 Feb 1944
US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein in the Pacific
04 Feb 1946
Garson Kanins Born Yesterday premieres in NYC
04 Feb 1948
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK
04 Feb 1948
After winning the mens downhill French alpine skier Henri Oreiller takes the combined gold medal at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics becomes most successful athlete at these Games with a slalom bronze
04 Feb 1950
4th British Empire Games open in Auckland New Zealand
04 Feb 1951
US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
04 Feb 1951
US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
04 Feb 1952
Tetsuwan Atom by Osamu Tezuka first published in Weekly Shonen Magazine in Japan
04 Feb 1956
AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
04 Feb 1957
1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
04 Feb 1958
Oh Captain opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
04 Feb 1958
MLB Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
04 Feb 1960
BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
04 Feb 1960
Lionel Barts musical Fings aint wot they used tbe premieres
04 Feb 1961
Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit probable Venus probe failure
04 Feb 1962
Gay Life closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
04 Feb 1962
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
04 Feb 1962
US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
04 Feb 1962
US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
04 Feb 1964
FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City
04 Feb 1966
All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan) kills 133
04 Feb 1967
Wild Thing hits 20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
04 Feb 1968
Golden Rainbow opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances
04 Feb 1968
Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
04 Feb 1968
Around 100 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrive in Britain escaping discrimination
04 Feb 1969
41163 then largest NBA crowd watches doubleheader Cin-Det SD-Bost
04 Feb 1969
Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman as general cousel to Apple
04 Feb 1969
Lonne Elders Ceremonies in Dark Old Men premieres in NYC
04 Feb 1970
Charles Aznavour opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances
04 Feb 1970
Gantry opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
04 Feb 1971
Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
04 Feb 1971
British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
04 Feb 1971
Government exhibit under construction in Brazil collapses kills 65
04 Feb 1971
National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
04 Feb 1971
Lieutenant-General Vernon Erskine-Crum becomes General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland
04 Feb 1971
The NASDAQ stock exchange the second-largest in the world - behind the New York Stock Exchange - is founded in New York City
04 Feb 1972
6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
04 Feb 1973
No No Nanette closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances
04 Feb 1973
Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec)
04 Feb 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
04 Feb 1973
An International inspection team is sent to Vietnam to observe progress on the Paris truce agreement
04 Feb 1974
Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word at 2 months
04 Feb 1974
Patricia Hearst (19) daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
04 Feb 1974
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus in West Yorkshire England carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members
04 Feb 1975
Haicheng earthquake M 7.3 strikes Haicheng Liaoning China
04 Feb 1976
XII Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck Austria
04 Feb 1976
7.5 earthquake kills 22778 in Guatemala & Honduras
04 Feb 1976
US Federal Judge Oliver upholds Seitzs decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
04 Feb 1977
Elevated train jumps track crashes onto Chicago st (11 die 200 hurt)
04 Feb 1977
Rumours 11th studio album by Fleetwood Mac is released (Grammy Album of the Year)
04 Feb 1979
Co-Ed Fever TV Comedy debut & cancelled that outing on CBS
04 Feb 1979
End of last 3day DN game for 15 yrs (WSC SCG)
04 Feb 1979
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
04 Feb 1979
29th NBA All-Star Game Pontiac Silverdome Pontiac Mi West beats East 134-129 MVP David Thompson Denver Nuggets SG
04 Feb 1980
Studio 54 holds its grand closing party on its last night in business
04 Feb 1982
Pump Boys & Dinettes opens at Princess Theater NYC for 573 performances
04 Feb 1982
Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash
04 Feb 1982
Musical Pump Boys & Dinettes premieres in NYC
04 Feb 1984
9 closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances
04 Feb 1984
Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas
04 Feb 1985
20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
04 Feb 1985
Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell NZ if nuclear weapons aboard USS Buchanan
04 Feb 1986
Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner
04 Feb 1987
Stars & Stripes beats Australias Kookaburra 3 sweeps Americas Cup
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
04 Feb 1988
Despite union calls to end the strike rank-and-file seamen at major British ports refuse to return to work
04 Feb 1989
Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval
04 Feb 1990
Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (340.81)
04 Feb 1990
Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (4504)
04 Feb 1990
Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
04 Feb 1990
NFL Pro Bowl Aloha Stadium Honolulu HI NFC beats AFC 27-21 MVP Jerry Gray LA Rams DB
04 Feb 1990
St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
04 Feb 1993
Admiral William Studeman ends term as acting director of CIA
04 Feb 1993
Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror
04 Feb 1994
10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
04 Feb 1994
20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartoum Sudan
04 Feb 1994
Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
04 Feb 1994
Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (818.71)
04 Feb 1995
Australian cricketer Dean Jones completes 324 for Victoria v South Australia
04 Feb 1995
Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77)
04 Feb 1995
Zimbabwes 1st Test Cricket victory over Pakistan by an inning
04 Feb 1997
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
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.
04 Feb 1998
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5000
04 Feb 1999
MV New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay Oregon
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.
04 Feb 1902
Stanley Cup Winnipeg Auditorium Winnipeg Manitoba Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias 2-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
04 Feb 1903
Stanley Cup Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series win
04 Feb 1915
Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Mississippi State Penitentiary
04 Feb 1950
IV British Empire Games open in Auckland New Zealand
04 Feb 1956
Soviet Union beats Canada 2-0 at Cortina dAmpezzo to clinch their first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal US takes silver Canada bronze
04 Feb 1967
Wild Thing cover version by Senator Bobby hits 20 on the pop singles chart
04 Feb 1972
Dutch speed skater Ard Schenk wins the 5000m at the Sapporo Winter Olympics also wins the 1500m and 10000m gold medals
04 Feb 1974
Randolph Hearsts 19-year-old daughter Patty Hearst is kidnapped from her apartment in California by the Symbionese Liberation Army
04 Feb 1670
Battle of Sinhagad Shivaji commander Tanaji Malusare recaptures fort of Sinhagad from the Mugals scaling the walls with help of pet monitor lizard
04 Feb 1899
The PhilippineAmerican War begins with fighting between American and Philippine revolutionary forces
04 Feb 1969
Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman as general counsel to Apple Records
04 Feb 1555
Reformer and bible translator John Roger is the first protestant martyr under Mary I when he is burnt at the stake at Smithfield London
04 Feb 1924
Norway sweeps the medals in the Nordic combined event at the inaugural Chamonix Winter Olympics Thorleif Haug wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Thoralf Strmstad & Johan Grttumsbrten
04 Feb 1960
Lionel Barts musical comedy Fings Aint Wot They Used Tbe opens at Garrick Theatre London runs for 886 pefromances
04 Feb 1971
British automobile and aerospace company Rolls Royce Ltd enters voluntary liquidation
04 Feb 1982
Musical Pump Boys & Dinettes opens at Princess Theater NYC runs for 573 performances
04 Feb 1990
Lyudmila Narozhilenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
04 Feb 1877
Ludwig Minkus ballet La Bayadre choreographed by Marius Petipa premieres at Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg Russia
04 Feb 1987
San Diego Yacht Clubs Stars & Stripes captained by Dennis Conner beats Royal Perth Yacht Club of Australias Kookaburra III to capture the Americas Cup at Freemantle Western Australia
04 Feb 1855
Anti-semantic rioting drives Jewish families out of Coro Venezuela
04 Feb 1936
First radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
04 Feb 1948
British-ruled Colony of Ceylon achieves independence becoming the Dominion of Ceylon and later Sri Lanka
04 Feb 1960
Voters fail to elect a new Baseball Hall of Fame member
04 Feb 1962
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports that baseball is an old Russian game
04 Feb 1971
Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for black players and coaches
04 Feb 1971
The National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) stock exchange the second-largest in the world - behind the New York Stock Exchange - is founded in New York City
04 Feb 1995
Archaeologist Kent R. Weeks crawls inside KV5 the tomb of the sons of Ramases II to discover the largest tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings [1]
04 Feb 2000
German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
04 Feb 2000
Simulation video game The Sims developed by Maxis released in North America
04 Feb 2003
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
04 Feb 2006
A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71
04 Feb 2012
Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland
04 Feb 2013
20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo Syria
04 Feb 2013
22 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus and a truck collide in Al Ain United Arab Emirates
04 Feb 2013
22 people are killed and 44 are injured after a suicide bombing in Taji Iraq
04 Feb 2013
8 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus collides with two vehicles and flips in Yucaipa California
04 Feb 2013
Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing
04 Feb 2013
Paris France annuls 213-year-old law banning women from wearing trousers
04 Feb 2014
10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune India
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