On this day, February 4th, many world-historic events took place; however, we will concentrate on the deaths of a president, a veteran of World War I who died at the age of 110, and eight more such events.
10 Top February 4th Events in World History:
#1. On February 4th, 2020, Kenyan politician Daniel Arap Moi, who served as his country’s president for almost 25 years, died at age 95.
Daniel Arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and led the East African nation through years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, died Tuesday at age 95.
Moi succeeded Kenya’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, in 1978 and ruled for 24 years. His death was announced by Kenyatta’s son and current president, Uhuru Kenyatta, who called him a leader in the struggle for Kenyan independence and an ardent Pan-Africanist.
#2. 1789: George Washington was elected to serve as the first U.S. president by a unanimous vote in the first electoral college.
#3. On this day, February 4th, 2012, a British servicewoman, Florence Green, the last surviving veteran of World War I, died at age 110.
#4. Yugoslavia officially changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro on February 4th, 2003.
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#5. 1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from Great Britain.
#6. In 1932 on February 4th, The United States hosted its first Winter Olympic Games, in Lake Placid, New York.
#7. On February 4, 2004, the Web site Facebook was launched (as TheFacebook.com); later it would become the largest social network in the world.
Facebook is a social networking website that was founded in February 2004 by Harvard University students Chris Hughes, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg. The idea behind Facebook was to provide an online book of faces for university students to connect and share information.
#8. In 1906 on 4th February, a German Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland).
#9. Shays’s Rebellion, an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions, was defeated by the Springfield militia.
#10. In 1938 on this day, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a classic portrayal of small-town American life, made its Broadway debut.