Today in History : February 4
786 : Harun al-Rashid succeeds his older brother the Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi as Caliph of Baghdad.
1194 : Richard I, King of England, is freed from captivity in Germany.
1508 : The Proclamation of Trent is made.
1787 : Shay’s Rebellion, an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers against the new U.S. government, fails.
1795 : France abolishes slavery in her territories and confers slaves to citizens.
1889 : Harry Longabaugh is released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous nickname, “the Sundance Kid.”
1899 : After an exchange of gunfire, fighting breaks out between American troops and Filipinos near Manila, sparking the Philippine-American War
1906 : The New York Police Department begins finger print identification.
1909 : California law segregates Caucasian and Japanese schoolchildren.
1915 : Germany decrees British waters as part of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without warning.
1923 : French troops take the territories of Offenburg, Appenweier and Buhl in the Ruhr as a part of the agreement ending World War I.
1932 : Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurates the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y.
1941 : The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries.
1944 : The Japanese attack the Indian Seventh Army in Burma.
1945 : The Big Three, American, British and Soviet leaders, meet in Yalta to discuss the war aims.
1966 : Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins televised hearings on the Vietnam War.
1974 : Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, beginning one of the most bizarre cases in FBI history.
1980 : Syria withdraws its peacekeeping force in Beirut.
1986 : The U.S. Post Office issues a commemorative stamp featuring Sojourner Truth.
Born on February 4
1881 : Fernand Leger, French painter.
1900 : Jacques Prevert, French poet, screenwriter (The Visitors of the Evening, The Children of Paradise).
1902 : Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1906 : Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian.
1906 : Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto.
1913 : Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist.
1921 : Betty Friedan, writer, feminist, founded the National Organization of Women in 1966.
1925 : Russell Hoban, artist and writer (Bedtime for Frances, The Mouse and His Child).
1932 : Robert Coover, novelist & short story writer.
1947 : Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H.W. Bush.
786 : Harun al-Rashid succeeds his older brother the Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi as Caliph of Baghdad.
1194 : Richard I, King of England, is freed from captivity in Germany.
1508 : The Proclamation of Trent is made.
1787 : Shay’s Rebellion, an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers against the new U.S. government, fails.
1795 : France abolishes slavery in her territories and confers slaves to citizens.
1889 : Harry Longabaugh is released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous nickname, “the Sundance Kid.”
1899 : After an exchange of gunfire, fighting breaks out between American troops and Filipinos near Manila, sparking the Philippine-American War
1906 : The New York Police Department begins finger print identification.
1909 : California law segregates Caucasian and Japanese schoolchildren.
1915 : Germany decrees British waters as part of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without warning.
1923 : French troops take the territories of Offenburg, Appenweier and Buhl in the Ruhr as a part of the agreement ending World War I.
1932 : Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurates the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y.
1941 : The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries.
1944 : The Japanese attack the Indian Seventh Army in Burma.
1945 : The Big Three, American, British and Soviet leaders, meet in Yalta to discuss the war aims.
1966 : Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins televised hearings on the Vietnam War.
1974 : Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, beginning one of the most bizarre cases in FBI history.
1980 : Syria withdraws its peacekeeping force in Beirut.
1986 : The U.S. Post Office issues a commemorative stamp featuring Sojourner Truth.
Born on February 4
1881 : Fernand Leger, French painter.
1900 : Jacques Prevert, French poet, screenwriter (The Visitors of the Evening, The Children of Paradise).
1902 : Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1906 : Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian.
1906 : Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto.
1913 : Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist.
1921 : Betty Friedan, writer, feminist, founded the National Organization of Women in 1966.
1925 : Russell Hoban, artist and writer (Bedtime for Frances, The Mouse and His Child).
1932 : Robert Coover, novelist & short story writer.
1947 : Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H.W. Bush.
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