Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 4

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  Emperor Taizu of Song
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  Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin and the Yalta Conference
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  London low emission zone sign
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  Constantin von Tischendorf
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  Luke 11:2 in the Codex Sinaiticus
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  Yasser Arafat
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  Patty Hearst during a bank robbery

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1703 – All but one of the forty-seven rōnin committed seppuku (ritual suicide) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, as recompense for avenging the death of their master, Daimyo of Akō Asano Naganori.	unreferenced section, possible copyvio
1862 – Bacardi, one of the world's largest rum producers, was founded as a small distillery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.	need source for date
1945 – World War II: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta Conference on the Crimean Peninsula to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization.	refimprove section
1975 – Haicheng, China, was struck by a 7.3 ML earthquake, but the death toll was relatively low thanks to evacuations ordered by the government.	refimprove, and also hook needs a rewrite, per [1]
1992 – Venezuelan Army officer Hugo Chávez failed in his attempt to overthrow the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez.	refimprove section
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2002 – Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, was formed from the merger of two competing cancer charities.	inappropriate tone, primary sources
2003 – Under a new Constitutional Charter, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reconstituted into a loose confederation of Serbia and Montenegro.	unreferenced section
2004 – Four Harvard University students launched the social networking website Facebook from their dorm room.	outdated
2006 – A stampede at the PhilSports Stadium in Pasig City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines, killed 78 people and injured about 400.	refimprove
2010 – The Federal Court of Australia's ruling in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd set a precedent that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them.	lots of Template:Tl tags (11)

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• 960 – Emperor Taizu (pictured) came to power, initiating the Song dynasty of China that eventually lasted for more than three centuries.
• 1169 – A strong earthquake struck the eastern coast of Sicily, causing at least Template:Nowrap.
• 1797 – The Riobamba earthquake, the most powerful in Ecuador's history, devastated Riobamba and many other cities, causing at least 6,000 casualties.
• 1801 – John Marshall, whose court opinions helped lay the basis for U.S. constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a coequal branch of government, took office as chief justice.
• 1820 – Chilean War of Independence: Chilean forces captured the city of Valdivia.
• 1859 – Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century great uncial codex of the Bible in Greek, in Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egypt.
• 1899 – The Philippine–American War began when an American soldier, under orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired on a Filipino soldier in Manila.
• 1969 – Yasser Arafat (pictured) was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
• 1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a motor coach carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel and their family members, killing twelve people.
• 1974 – American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined.
• 1998 – An earthquake registering 5.9 M_W struck northern Afghanistan, triggering landslides that killed over 2,300 people and destroyed around 15,000 homes.
• 1999 – Four plain-clothes New York City police officers shot and killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, prompting outrage both in and outside the city.
• 2008 – The London low emission zone, governing what types of vehicles may enter Greater London, came into operation.
• 2015 – Shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, the crew of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 shut down the wrong engine in response to a flameout, leading to a crash that resulted in 43 deaths.
• Born/died this day: | Septimius Severus |d|211| Rabanus Maurus |d|856| Ceolnoth |d|870| Carl Michael Bellman |b|1740| Alexis Soyer |b|1810| Oliver Ames |b|1831| Bill Haywood |b|1869| Étienne Desmarteau |b|1873| Virginia M. Alexander |b|1899| Jean Bolikango |b|1909| Yahya Khan |b|1917| Kim Yong-nam |b|1928| Ken Thompson |b|1943| Jenny Shipley |b|1952| Karen Carpenter |d|1983| Hilda Hilst |d|2004| Daniel arap Moi |d|2020| Hy Cohen |d|2021

February 4: World Cancer Day; Lichun begins in East Asia (2026) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1488 – Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias landed in Mossel Bay, becoming the first European known to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and the southern tip of Africa.
• 1555 – Marian Restoration: Because he opposed Catholicism, John Rogers was burned at the stake (pictured) as the first English Protestant executed for heresy under the reign of Mary I.
• 1945 – World War II: American forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest enemy-civilian internment camp run by the Empire of Japan in the Philippines.
• 1999 – The Philippine-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history.