For internet users, did you know that today is Facebook’s birthday? Among the various occasions happening on this day, there are those that happened in the past and left a mark. Read to learn the significant events of February 4.
- 1922 – Lincoln purchased the Ford Company for $8 million dollars
- 1932 – The first Winter Olympics to be held in the United States.
- 1938 – The animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released.
- 1943 – Ransom Eli Olds, the creator of internal combustion engine designs, received his last patent on this day.
- 1948 – Ceylon (Sri Lanka) proclaimed its independence within the British Commonwealth
- 1950 – A British Atomic scientist was arrested and charged with gathering information that would be useful to enemy forces.
- 1957 – This was the first day of the sale of Smith-Corona portable typewriters.
- 1962 – Russian newspaper Izvestia reports revealed baseball to be an old Russian game.
- 1964 – As of this date, it was no longer legal to charge a poll tax for voting.
- 1968 – The continued persecution of Asians in Kenya forced thousands to leave the country.
- 1974 – Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, California by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
- 1997 – A civil jury panel in Santa Monica, had determined that O.J. Simpson was guilty of the deaths of both his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
- 1998 – An earthquake in northern Afghanistan left 4000 dead, and tens of thousands more injured.
- 2004 – Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
- 2006 – Following the publishing of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad Muslim protesters destroyed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus.
- 2010 – The Department of Justice expressed dissatisfaction with a deal that allows the search engine on Google to build a vast digital library.
- 2010 -Barack Obama’s aunt appeared in court on a second attempt to gain political asylum in the United States.
- 2011 -President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines announced a nationwide ban on logging after the country suffered flooding and mudslides.
- 2013 -The government of France lifted a two-hundred-year law that banned women from wearing trousers.
- 2014 -Libya announced the destruction of chemical weapons.