February 4
February 4 is the 35th day of the Gregorian calendar.
Events
1769: In Britain the introduction the death penalty for destruction of industrial installations
1789: George Washington is elected first president of the U.S. Electoral College
1861 South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Texas proclaimed secession and creates the Montgomery (Alabama), Confederation of Southern States (which in April and May is joined Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee)
1909: Takes place on the Bucharest National Theatre, first track "Sunset" by Barbu Stefanescu Delavrancea
1922: Sino-Japanese Treaty, by which it is returned to China's Shandun
1927 - The U.S. launches movie The jazz singer (jazz singer), Warner Brothers, the first sound film in movie history.
1933: Act to authorize martial law state of siege. Government may declare global or partial curfew on later than 6 months.
1934: Romanian crew grain of two people (Al. Frim and V. Dumitrescu) wins world title in Engelberg, Switzerland. For results, athletes were awarded "National Award for Sport".
1961: beginning of armed struggle for liberation of Angola under Portuguese colonial rule, led by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - MPLA
1967: He started building the first highways in the country Bucharest-Pitesti
1970: published the novel "Love Story" by Erich Segal, a success
1976: Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria
Powerful earthquake in Guatemala - 7.5 on the Richter scale resulted in 22,778 deaths.
1998: An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000 people
2003: Yugoslav Parliament officially proclaimed the new state of Serbia-born Black Mountain. Simultaneously the new Constitution was passed.
2004: Swiss tennis player Roger Federer is number one world, after winning the Australian Open Grand Slam tournament, after defeating Russian Marat Safin in the final score of 7-6 (3), 6-4, 6-2
Births
1688: Pierre Carlet de Marivaux of Chambain, French dramatist (d. February 12, 1763)
1746: Tadeusz Kosciuszko, hero of the struggle for national independence in Poland (d. October 5. 1817)
1799: Almeida Garrett, poet, playwright, novelist, orator and politician Portugal (died Dec. 9. 1854)
1809: Basil Carlova, Romanian poet (d. September 18. 1831)
1871: Friedrich Ebert, the first social democratic president of the Weimar Republic (1919-1925) (died February 28, 1925)
1872: Octav Bancila, Romanian painter (d. April 3, 1944)
1881: Fernand Léger, French painter (d. August 17, 1955)
1890: Horace Dumitriu, Romanian painter
1900: Jacques Prevert, French poet (d. April 11. 1977)
1902: Charles A. Lindbergh, American aviator, who at 20/21 May 1927 made the first flight without interruption over the Atlantic (d. August 26. 1974)
1906: Clyde W. Tombaugh, American astronomer, discovered in 1930, Pluto
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor, opponent of the National Socialist regime (d. 1945)
Natalia Bragalia, designer
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, an economist and mathematician, honorary member of the Romanian Academy, emigrated to U.S. (d. October 31, 1994)
Eugene Macovschi, biochemist and biologist, academician Romanian (d. April 3, 1985)
1910: Alfred Mendelsohn, composer, conductor and educator (d. May 9, 1966)
1929: Constantin Pili, Romanian painter
1932: Mioara Abram, renowned personality of Romanian linguistics (d. 2004)
1937: Emanuel Pride, Romanian director (d. December 1, 1997)
1940: Deac Ion Bistrita, Romanian artist
1954: Denisa Comanescu, Romanian poet
1959: Monica Luisa Macovei, Romanian politician
1975: Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer
1988 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
Deaths
211: Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (193-211), founder of the dynasty (b. 146)
708: Pope Sisiniu
1849: Costache Conachi, one of the representative poets of the early period of our literature (b. 1777)
1921: Carl Hauptmann, German writer (b. 1858)
1928: Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1853)
1941: David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician (b. 1854)
1962: Aurel Jiquidi, illustrator (b. 1896)
1974: Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (b. 1894)
1977: Mariska Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1889)
1983: Karen Carpenter, a member, along with Richard Carpenter, the famous band "The Carpenters" (n.2 March 1950)
1988: Alexander Căprariu, poet (b. 1929)
1993: Rareş Marietta, actress (b. 1896)
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