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Unbelievable events on February 4 in history
1783 King George III declared a permanent ceasefire to the American Revolutionary War. The Confederation Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784, and the British Parliament on April 9, 1784.
1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
1789 1st US electoral college chooses George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President
1794 French National Convention proclaims abolition of slavery
1822 Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1847 1st US telegraph company established in Maryland
1859 One of the oldest known copies of the Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is seen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf who takes the manuscript home with him
1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time; Jefferson Davis elected President of Confederacy (US Civil War)
1865 Robert E. Lee is named general-in-chief of Confederate forces
1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma with the addition to the Union of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907
1938 A—- H—- seizes control of German army and puts N— in key posts
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II
1952 Jackie Robinson becomes the 1st African American executive of a major US TV and radio station as Director of Community Activities at radio WNBC-NY and TV station WNBT
1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
1971 The NASDAQ stock exchange, the second-largest in the world - behind the New York Stock Exchange - is founded in New York City
1974 American publishing heir Randolph Hearst’s 19-year-old daughter, Patty Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California by the Symbionese Liberation Army
1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1987 US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US federal grand jury for drug trafficking and racketeering
1991 Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time (Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration, To Tell the Truth)
1991 Baseball's Hall of Fame board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose, due to his betting on games while a player and manager
1997 O.J. Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson in a civil court action
1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium
2004 Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room
2020 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh is presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump during the State Of The Union Address
2021 First successful face and double hand transplant announced performed on 22 year-old Joe DiMeo in New York
2023 Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by US fighter jets off the US eastern seaboard, after drifting across the US for days and igniting a political storm
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