February 4
People born on this day are Aquarius.
- 1976
In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
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A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
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A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
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En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
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Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 19 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
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The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
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The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
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Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
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Civic mobilizations in Colombia against FARC, under the name A million voices against the FARC.
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TransAsia Airways Flight 235, with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people.
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The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days.
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Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden.
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2003Kyla Kenedy, American actress
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2003Rasmus Højlund, Danish footballer
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1999MJ Lenderman, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
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1998Malik Monk, American basketball player
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1998Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer
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1996Mohamed Sherif, Egyptian footballer
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1990Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer
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1989Lavoy Allen, American basketball player
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1988Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer
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1987Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
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1986Maximilian Götz, German racing driver
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1986Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
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