February 4
1783 - England's King George III proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.
1787 - Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.
1789 - Electors chose George Washington and John Adams to be the first president and vice president of the United States.
1801 - John Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1861 - Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.
1913 - Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama.
1941 - The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.
1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met at the Yalta Conference to discuss World War II strategies.
1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1974 - Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1976 - More than 23,000 people died when a severe earthquake struck Guatemala with a magnitude of 7.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
1977 - Eleven people were killed when two Chicago Transit Authority trains collided on an elevated track.
1983 - Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.
1997 - A jury in Santa Monica, California found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in a civil trial; Goldman's family was awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages.
1999 - Senators present at the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton voted to permit the showing of portions of Monica Lewinsky's videotaped deposition.
2003 - The country of Yugoslavia formally ceased to exist as it was replaced by the loose federation of its two remaining republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
2004 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage in the state constitutional.
2004 - The social networking platform Facebook was launched by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, then known as "Thefacebook".
2012 - Florence Green, who had served with the Women's Royal Air Force and was recognized as the last known living veteran of World War I, died in King's Lynn, in eastern England, at age 110.
2017 - The Justice Department appealed a judge’s order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration ban, saying it was the “sovereign prerogative” of a president to admit or exclude aliens in order to protect national security.
2020 - Thousands of medical workers in Hong Kong were on strike for a second day to demand that the country's border with China be completely closed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus; the territory reported its first death from the virus and the second known fatality outside China.
2021 - Former President Donald Trump rejected a request from House Democrats that he testify under oath at his second Senate impeachment trial. A fiercely divided House tossed Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia off both of her committees, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she'd earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.
2021 - A voting technology company, Smartmatic USA, sued FOX News, three of its hosts and two former Trump lawyers -- Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell -- for $2.7 billion, for allegedly conspiring to spread false claims that the company helped "steal" the presidential election.
2021 - Johnson & Johnson asked U.S. regulators to clear the world's first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine.
2021 - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a new statewide mask mandate after the Republican-controlled state legislature repealed his previous mandate. (The state Supreme Court would strike down the mask mandate nearly two months later.)
Birthdays
27 - Hannah Godwin (TV personality / model)
30 - Hannah Stocking (model)
34 - Dallas Lovato (actress)
34 - Carly Patterson (singer)
34 - Charlie Barnett (actor)
37 - Ashley Thomas (actress/musician)
38 - Zoe Manville (singer)
39 - Natalie Krill (actress)
40 - Kimberly Wyatt (singer)
47 - Natalie Imbruglia (singer)
49 - Oscar De La Hoya (boxer)
50 - Nicolle Wallace (TV personality)
51 - Michael Goorjian (actor)
51 - Rob Corddry (actor)
52 - Hunter Biden (son of President Joe Biden)
52 - Gabrielle Anwar (actress)
60 - Clint Black (singer)
62 - Tim Booth (singer)
63 - Pamelyn Ferdin (actress)
63 - Lawrence Taylor (football player)
70 - Lisa Eichhorn (actres)
73 - Michael Beck (actor)
74 - Alice Cooper (singer)
75 - Dan Quayle (former Vice President of the United States)
82 - John Schuck (actor)
86 - Gary Conway (actor)
93 - Jerry Adler (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 4
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France.
1932 - The first Winter Olympic Games to be held in the United States opened at Lake Placid, New York.
1968 - Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as the fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1969 - John Madden was named head coach of the Oakland Raiders.
1973 - The New York Islanders and Buffalo Sabres played a penalty-free NHL game.
1987 - The Sacramento Kings score only four points in the first quarter of a game against the Los Angeles Lakers; it was the fewest points scored in a quarter in an NBA game since the introduction of the 24-second shot clock in 1954.
1991 - Baseball's Hall of Fame Board of Directors vote 12-0 to ban Pete Rose due to his betting on games while a player and manager.
1993 - The Boston Celtics retired Larry Bird's #33.
1997 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 600th NHL goal during his 719th game. Lemieux reached the milestone second fastest in history. (Wayne Gretzky had reached the plateau during his 718th game.)
2002 - Minnesota's Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by the Minnesota Twins of an injunction that would force the Twins to fulfill their lease at the Metrodome.
2003 - Jaromir Jagr (Washington Capitals) scored his 500th career goal. He also got his 11th career hat trick in the game.
2007 - The Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears 29-17 in Miami to win Super Bowl XLI.
2017 - LaDainian Tomlinson, Terrell Davis and Kurt Warner were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2018 - The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the New England Patriots 41-33 in Minneapolis to win Super Bowl LII.
1783 - England's King George III proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States.
1787 - Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.
1789 - Electors chose George Washington and John Adams to be the first president and vice president of the United States.
1801 - John Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1861 - Delegates from six southern states met at Montgomery, Alabama to form the Confederate States of America.
1913 - Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama.
1941 - The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.
1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met at the Yalta Conference to discuss World War II strategies.
1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1974 - Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1976 - More than 23,000 people died when a severe earthquake struck Guatemala with a magnitude of 7.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
1977 - Eleven people were killed when two Chicago Transit Authority trains collided on an elevated track.
1983 - Singer Karen Carpenter died at age 32.
1997 - A jury in Santa Monica, California found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in a civil trial; Goldman's family was awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages.
1999 - Senators present at the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton voted to permit the showing of portions of Monica Lewinsky's videotaped deposition.
2003 - The country of Yugoslavia formally ceased to exist as it was replaced by the loose federation of its two remaining republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
2004 - The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage in the state constitutional.
2004 - The social networking platform Facebook was launched by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, then known as "Thefacebook".
2012 - Florence Green, who had served with the Women's Royal Air Force and was recognized as the last known living veteran of World War I, died in King's Lynn, in eastern England, at age 110.
2017 - The Justice Department appealed a judge’s order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration ban, saying it was the “sovereign prerogative” of a president to admit or exclude aliens in order to protect national security.
2020 - Thousands of medical workers in Hong Kong were on strike for a second day to demand that the country's border with China be completely closed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus; the territory reported its first death from the virus and the second known fatality outside China.
2021 - Former President Donald Trump rejected a request from House Democrats that he testify under oath at his second Senate impeachment trial. A fiercely divided House tossed Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia off both of her committees, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she'd earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.
2021 - A voting technology company, Smartmatic USA, sued FOX News, three of its hosts and two former Trump lawyers -- Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell -- for $2.7 billion, for allegedly conspiring to spread false claims that the company helped "steal" the presidential election.
2021 - Johnson & Johnson asked U.S. regulators to clear the world's first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine.
2021 - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a new statewide mask mandate after the Republican-controlled state legislature repealed his previous mandate. (The state Supreme Court would strike down the mask mandate nearly two months later.)
Birthdays
27 - Hannah Godwin (TV personality / model)
30 - Hannah Stocking (model)
34 - Dallas Lovato (actress)
34 - Carly Patterson (singer)
34 - Charlie Barnett (actor)
37 - Ashley Thomas (actress/musician)
38 - Zoe Manville (singer)
39 - Natalie Krill (actress)
40 - Kimberly Wyatt (singer)
47 - Natalie Imbruglia (singer)
49 - Oscar De La Hoya (boxer)
50 - Nicolle Wallace (TV personality)
51 - Michael Goorjian (actor)
51 - Rob Corddry (actor)
52 - Hunter Biden (son of President Joe Biden)
52 - Gabrielle Anwar (actress)
60 - Clint Black (singer)
62 - Tim Booth (singer)
63 - Pamelyn Ferdin (actress)
63 - Lawrence Taylor (football player)
70 - Lisa Eichhorn (actres)
73 - Michael Beck (actor)
74 - Alice Cooper (singer)
75 - Dan Quayle (former Vice President of the United States)
82 - John Schuck (actor)
86 - Gary Conway (actor)
93 - Jerry Adler (actor)
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Today in Sports History - February 4
1924 - The first Winter Olympic Games opened in Chamonix, France.
1932 - The first Winter Olympic Games to be held in the United States opened at Lake Placid, New York.
1968 - Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as the fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1969 - John Madden was named head coach of the Oakland Raiders.
1973 - The New York Islanders and Buffalo Sabres played a penalty-free NHL game.
1987 - The Sacramento Kings score only four points in the first quarter of a game against the Los Angeles Lakers; it was the fewest points scored in a quarter in an NBA game since the introduction of the 24-second shot clock in 1954.
1991 - Baseball's Hall of Fame Board of Directors vote 12-0 to ban Pete Rose due to his betting on games while a player and manager.
1993 - The Boston Celtics retired Larry Bird's #33.
1997 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) scored his 600th NHL goal during his 719th game. Lemieux reached the milestone second fastest in history. (Wayne Gretzky had reached the plateau during his 718th game.)
2002 - Minnesota's Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by the Minnesota Twins of an injunction that would force the Twins to fulfill their lease at the Metrodome.
2003 - Jaromir Jagr (Washington Capitals) scored his 500th career goal. He also got his 11th career hat trick in the game.
2007 - The Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears 29-17 in Miami to win Super Bowl XLI.
2017 - LaDainian Tomlinson, Terrell Davis and Kurt Warner were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
2018 - The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the New England Patriots 41-33 in Minneapolis to win Super Bowl LII.
