Holiday name | Holiday location | Holiday type |
---|---|---|
World Cancer Day |
- | International |
Farmer's Day |
Taiwan | Observance |
National Day |
Sri lanka | Public Holiday |
Begin of the Armed Fight for National Liberation |
Angola | Public Holiday |
Rosa Parks Day |
United states | Local Observance |
Chinese New Year's Eve |
Taiwan | National Holiday |
Seollal Holiday Day 1 |
South korea | National Holiday |
Vietnamese New Year's Eve |
Vietnam | National Holiday |
Day off for Constitution Day |
Mexico | National Holiday |
Spring Festival Eve |
China | National Holiday |
National Football Hangover Day |
- | Weird |
National Hemp Day |
- | Weird |
National Thank a Mail Carrier Day |
- | Weird |
National Homemade Soup Day |
- | Weird |
National Create a Vacuum day |
- | Weird |
Historical Events on February 4
- 1789: The United States Electoral College votes unanimously to make George Washington the 1st President of the U.S.
- 1794: Throughout the territories of the French First Republic, slavery is abolished. However, it will slavery will be established in the French West Indies at the beginning of the 19th
- 1825: Construction of the Ohio & Erie Canal is approved by the Ohio Legislature.
- 1846: Mormon pioneers travel from Illinois to Salt Lake Valley.
- 1861: Delegates from the 6 U.S States which seceded from the Union, meet in Montgomery, Alabama and form the Confederate States of America.
- 1899: The Battle of Manila is the opening shot in the Philippine American War.
- 1941: The USO (United Service Organization) is organized as a way to serve and entertain American troops.
- 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Yalta Conference in the Crimea.
- 1945: A number of different battles occur between British Indian forces and Japanese forces on this day.
- 1975: In Haicheng, China, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake erupts.
- 1976: Honduras and Guatemala suffer through an earthquake that kills more than 20,000 people.
- 1998: Over 2300 people are killed and another 800+ are injured by an earthquake that strike the Takhar Province in Afghanistan.
- 1999: West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot over 40+ times by a plainclothes New York City police officer. Mr. Diallo was unarmed.
Famous Birthdays on February 4
- French poet and screenwriter, Jacques Prevert is born in 1900.
- American pilot and explorer, Charles Lindbergh is born in 1902.
- American author and screenwriter, MacKinlay Kantor is born in 1904.
- American astronomer and discoverer of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh is born in 1906.
- English poet Julian Bell is born in 1908.
- American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks is born in 1913.
- American director, screenwriter and producer, George A. Romero is born in 1940.
- American singer and actress, Florence LaRue is born in 1944.
- American singer-songwriter Alice Cooper is born in 1948.
- American actor Michael Beck is born in 1949.