February 4

Today's Events

  • 1600
    Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
  • 1847
    1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
  • 1865
    Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
  • 1887
    Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
  • 1899
    Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
  • 1932
    1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY
  • 1936
    1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
  • 1945
    Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR
  • 1948
    Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
  • 1957
    1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY
  • 1964
    Amendment 24 banning poll tax
  • 1973
    Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
  • 1973
    Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
  • 1974
    Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
  • 1984
    Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
  • 1985
    20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
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