Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 4
This is a list of selected February 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Yasser Arafat in 1999
Ineligible
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| 1703 – Forty-six of the Forty-seven Ronin committed seppuku (ritual suicide) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, as recompense for avenging the death of their master, Daimyo of Akō Asano Naganori. | unreferenced section |
| 1862 – Bacardi, one of the world's largest rum producers, was founded as a small distillery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. | need source for date |
| 1945 – World War II: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta Conference in Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula, the second of three wartime conferences among the major Allied leaders, to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization. | {{refimprove section}} |
| 1992 – Venezuelan Army Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chávez failed in his attempt to overthrow the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez. | unreferenced section |
| 2003 – Under a new Constitutional Charter, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reconstituted into a loose confederation of Serbia and Montenegro. | {{refimprove}} |
Eligible
- 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the eastern coast of Sicily, causing an estimated 15,000 deaths.
- 1899 – The Philippine–American War opened when an American soldier, under orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired upon a Filipino soldier in Manila.
- 1969 – Yasser Arafat (pictured) was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a motor coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members, killing twelve and wounding fifty more.
- 1998 – A magnitude 6.1 ML earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, triggering landslides that destroyed around 15,000 homes.
- 1999 – Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers, prompting outrage both within and outside New York City.
- 2002 – Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, was formed from the merger of two competing cancer charities.
- 2004 – Four Harvard University students launched the popular social networking website Facebook from their dorm room.
- 2008 – The London low emission zone, governing what types of vehicles may enter Greater London, came into being.
- 2010 – The Federal Court of Australia's ruling in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd set a precedent that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them.
February 4: Liberation Movement Day in Angola (1961); Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948)
- 960 – Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song dynasty period that eventually lasted for more than three centuries.
- 1859 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus (text sample pictured), a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt.
- 1974 – American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined in one of the most well-known cases of Stockholm syndrome.
- 1999 – The Panamanian-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in Oregon history.
- 2006 – A stampede at the PhilSports Stadium in Pasig City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines, killed 78 people and injured about 400.