February 4

International

• World Cancer Day

National

See also: Category: Holidays February 4

• Angola - Day of the armed uprising.
• USA - Rose Parks Day.
• Sri Lanka - Independence Day.
• Japan - Rissun - Early Spring (New Year).

Religious

Catholicism

- the memory of Saint Veronica ;

- the memory of St. Catherine de Ricci ;

- the memory of Rimbert (the Archbishop of Hamburg) ;

- the memory of St. John de Brito ;

- the memory of St. Gilbert of Semngingham ;

- the memory of Saint Andrea Corsini .

  Orthodoxy ^[2]

⟨Russian Orthodox Church⟩

- The memory of the apostle from 70 Timothy, Bishop of Ephesus (c. 96-97);

- Memory of the MonkMartyr Anastasia of Persianin (628);

- the memory of the martyrs of Adrianople (Bulgarian): Manuel, George, Peter, Leonty, bishops, Zion, Gabriel, John, Leonth, Parish of Elders, and others 377 (about 814-817);

- The memory of the martyr Anastasia, deacon of the Caves, in the Near Caves (XII);

- the memory of Rev. Macarius Zhabynsky, the Belevsky miracle worker (1623);

- memory of martyrs John the Assumption and Euthymius Tikhonravov , presbyters (1938).

Name Day

• Catholic: Andrea , Veronica , Gilbert , John , Catherine , Rimbert
• Orthodox: Agathon , Ananias, Anastasius , Gabriel , George , Euthymius , Ivan , Joseph , Leonte , Leonty , Macarius , Manuel , Nikolai , Parod, Petr , Zioniy, Timofey , Yakov

See also: Category: Events February 4

Until the XVIII century

• 211 - after the death of Lucius Septimius Severus with the emperors of the Roman Empire became his sons Geta and Caracalla .
• 634 - The First Arab-Byzantine War : Muslim troops of Amr ibn al-Asa defeated the Byzantines in the .
• 900 - Louis IV Child crowned at the Forchheim congress by the king of the eastern francs .
• 960 - Tai Chi became the emperor of China . The beginning of the rule of the Song Dynasty .
• 1169 - as a result of an in eastern Sicily , 15 thousand people died.
• 1194 - Henry VI Hohenstaufen returned freedom to the King of England Richard I the Lionheart in exchange for a ransom, payment to the emperor and a promise to pay him five thousand pounds annually.
• 1339 - the Warsaw Trial began - the trial , initiated by the Polish king Casimir III , over territorial disputes between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order , conducted by representatives of the Holy See in the pontificate of Benedict XII .
• 1348 - the troops of the Northern Court defeated the troops of the Southern Court in the .
• 1454 - The Thirteen Years War began with the attack of the rebels from the Prussian alliance on and on the big mill in Danzig
• 1508 - Maximilian Habsburg in Trento assumed the title of emperor of the Holy Roman Empire . Pope Julius II expressed his approval to him.
• 1582 - the troops of the Commonwealth retreated from Pskov after a long siege .

XVIII century

• 1703 - in Edo, 47 ronin make ritual seppuku , as it was the real samurai, instead of being executed as criminals.
• 1719 - Peter I issues a decree on the first census of the Russian Empire .
• 1720 - Peter I issues a decree on the construction of barriers in St. Petersburg .
• 1722 - Peter I introduces the Table of Ranks .
• 1755 - Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed a decree on the establishment of Moscow University .
• 1789 - The Electoral College elected George Washington as the first president of the United States .
• 1794 - The Great French Revolution : The National Convention abolishes slavery in France and its colonies .
• 1797 - The Ecuadorian city ​​of Riobamba was completely destroyed by an . Killed about 40 thousand people.

XIX century

• 1810 - Napoleonic Wars : Great Britain occupies Guadeloupe .
• 1820 - The War of Independence in Chile : the Chilean fleet , under the command of Thomas Cochrane , after a , occupies Valdivia .
• 1824 - American inventor and businessman Charles Goodrich in Boston presented the rubber galoshes to the public.
• 1846 - Mormon War in Illinois : the first Mormon pioneers left Nauvoo ( Illinois ) and began moving to the West, in Utah .
• 1858 - Asteroid 52 Europe discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt .
• 1861 - US Civil War : Confederate States of America formed .
• 1874 - during the Second Anglo-Ashtanthian War, the British seized and destroyed the capital of Ashanti , Kumasi .
• 1899
  • The Philippine-American war began . Casus belli to the beginning of the war served the incident that occurred on the night of February 4, 1899 on the San Juan bridge, near Manila . An American soldier shot and killed a Filipino, who entered the US military base.
  • Atoll Wake annexed by the United States , as a no-man’s territory.
  • Werder is founded, a football club from the city of Bremen ( Germany )
• 1900 - Felix Dzerzhinsky was arrested and imprisoned in the 10th Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel .

XX century

• 1915 - World War I : Germany declared a naval blockade of the British Isles , marking the beginning of an unlimited submarine war .
• 1921
  • During the assault, Baron Ungern freed the Mongolian capital Urga from Chinese troops.
  • Restored Order of the White Eagle - Poland's highest award .
  • Established the Order of the Renaissance of Poland ( Polonia Restituta ). The award is made for outstanding achievements in the military and civil spheres, both Polish and foreign citizens.
• 1931 - The first wind power station in Russia started its work in Kursk .
• 1932
  • Japanese intervention in Manchuria : after a ten-day defense, the Japanese occupied Harbin .
  • The ship Sakhalin arrived in Nagaev Bay ( Sea of ​​Okhotsk ), which brought the leadership of the Dalstroy Trust and the first group of prisoners to Kolyma who were to organize the development of mineral resources and construction.
  • Third Winter Olympic Games opened in Lake Placid .
• 1934 - Diplomatic relations are established between the USSR and Hungary .
• 1935 - The first Moscow Metro test train was launched.
• 1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff , founder and head of the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party of the Nazis, was shot dead in Davos by a Jewish student David Frankfurter , after which he was declared a " martyr " in the Third Reich .
• 1938 - Reich Defense Minister Werner von Blomberg and Land Force Commander Werner von Fritsch were dismissed ( Fritsch - Blomberg Case ). The supreme commander of the Wehrmacht becomes Adolf Hitler . Joachim von Ribbentrop is appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs .
• 1939 - the Penza region is formed.
• 1940 - in the building of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, the sentence of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on the “exceptional measure of punishment” was executed - the execution, former NKVD People's Commissar, General Security Commissioner Nikolai Ivanovich Ezhov .
• 1941
  • United Service based United States Organizations .
  • Roy Plunkett gets a patent for the manufacture of tetrafluoroethylene polymer - Teflon .
• 1943 - Ivan Kabushkin was captured by the Nazis during a combat mission, after which he was tortured in fascist dungeons.
• 1944 - Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub , a pilot - an ace of the Red Army , was awarded the first title of Hero of the Soviet Union .

• 1945
  • The Crimean (Yalta) Conference opened in the Livadia Palace . Roosevelt , Churchill and Stalin discussed the question of the unconditional surrender of Germany and its subsequent division into four zones of occupation. The Polish question was considered and the first United Nations conference was held in San Francisco , USA . Stalin agrees that the USSR will start military operations against Japan after the defeat of Germany and occupies part of Korea (Korea should be divided into two zones on the 38th parallel).
  • East Prussian operation (1945) : the operation of the 1st Baltic Front I. H. Baghramyan to destroy the enemy grouping in the Klaipeda region, which lasted from January 25 to February 4, 1945, was completed.
  • The 43rd Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front, I. D. Chernyakhovsky , after destroying the garrison of the harbor of Kranz , reached the Baltic Sea coast .
  • The Burmese campaign : The British Indian Army began the .
  • Belgium is completely liberated from the Nazi occupation.
• 1946 - The Partizani Albanian football club (Tirana) is founded.
• 1947 - Craiova Rada Narodova ceased its activities in Poland . The convened . Marshal of the Sejm became Vladislav Kovalsky .
• 1948 - Sri Lanka gained independence under the name Dominion Ceylon (while remaining the dominion of Great Britain ).
• 1949 - attempt on the shahinshah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlevi . During a shah’s visit to a ceremony at Tehran University, Fakhr Aray fired at him from a distance of three meters, but the shah was only slightly wounded in the cheek. Fakhr-Aray was shot on the spot by officers. Martial law was introduced in Iran.
• 1961
  • The beginning of the armed struggle in Angola against the Portuguese colonialists.
  • The very first Soviet attempt to start to Venus . Sputnik-7 remained in very low earth orbit due to the failure of the upper stage. The strange trajectory and dark message of TASS gave rise to speculation in the Western press that this was a manned ship disaster.
• 1966 - 133 people were killed in a Japanese Boeing 727 plane crash in Tokyo Bay .
• 1970 - The city of Pripyat was founded, now abandoned due to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant .
• 1971 - Rolls-Royce Limited , a British car and aircraft engine manufacturer, was nationalized as a result of bankruptcy.
• 1974 - Patricia Hearst , granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst , an American billionaire and newspaper magnate, was captured at the campus of Berkeley ( California ) by the American radical leftist terrorist group, the Symbionist Liberation Army . She spent 57 days in a closet the size of 2 meters by 63 centimeters, the first two weeks blindfolded, the first few days without a toilet and gagged, suffered physical, psychological and sexual violence .
• 1975 - 1328 people died in an earthquake in the city district of Xicheng , Liaoning Province, China . This is the only case in the history of a successful evacuation before a devastating earthquake.
• 1976
  • In Guatemala , a major earthquake occurred , which killed 23,000 people.
  • The 12th Winter Olympic Games opened in Innsbruck .
• 1977
  • As a result of in the Chicago subway , 11 people were killed and 180 were injured. This is the biggest incident of this kind.
  • Kenya 's national airline , Kenya Airways , was formed.
• 1978 - Junius Richard Jayawardene became President of Sri Lanka .
• 1980 - Abolhasan Banisadr became the first president of Iran .
• 1983 - German war criminal Claus Barbier was extradited to Bolivia, France , where he appeared in court.
• 1990 - 300 thousand demonstrations were held in Moscow in support of democratic reforms and the abolition of Article 6 of the Constitution of the USSR, which consolidated the political monopoly of the CPSU ^[3] .
• 1992 - Hugo Chávez led a failed coup attempt in Venezuela .
• 1994 - Ibrahim Boubacar Keita became Prime Minister of Mali .
• 1997
  • The crash of helicopters in Israel . 73 soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces died. It was the largest air crash in the history of Israel.
  • The new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa entered into force.
• 1998
  • Robert Sedrakovich Kocharyan became Acting President of Armenia , instead of Levon Akopovich Ter-Petrosyan , who resigned.
  • Approved Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
• 2000
  • Wolfgang Schüssel became the Federal Chancellor of Austria .
  • The ceremony of handing over the icon of the 15th century “ Boris and Gleb ”, which was abducted in 1991 in the Ustyuzhensk local history museum, took place at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation .

XXI century

• 2003 - The Constitution of Serbia and Montenegro is adopted.
• 2004 - Facebook is launched.
• 2005 - Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine overwhelmingly (375 deputies ) approved Yulia Tymoshenko as the new Prime Minister of Ukraine .
• 2006
  • Opened the Turin metro .
  • Cartoon scandal : in Damascus ( Syria ) and Beirut ( Lebanon ), protesters manage to set fire to the buildings of the embassies of Denmark and Norway.
• 2009 - HMS Vanguard nuclear submarines of the British Navy and the French Le Triomphant (both with weapons of mass destruction on board) collided in the depths of the Atlantic .

See also: Category: Born February 4

Until the XIX century

• 1483 - Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (d. 1561 ), Italian painter, son of Domenico Ghirlandaio .
• 1494 - Francois Rabelet (d. 1553 ), French writer, one of the greatest satirists.
• 1505 - Mikolaj Rey (died 1569 ), Polish writer and public figure.
• 1515 - Nicholas Black Radzivill (died 1565 ), prince, statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania .
• 1667 - Alessandro Magnasco , Italian painter, Baroque representative, master of the Genoese school.
• 1688 - Pierre Marivaux (d. 1763 ), French playwright and novelist.
• 1682 - Johann Friedrich Böttger (d. 1719 ), German alchemist.
• 1746 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko (died 1817 ), the national hero of Poland, a military and political figure.
• 1799 - João Batista de Almeida Garrett (d. 1854 ), Portuguese poet, playwright, writer and politician.

XIX century

• 1808 - Josef Kayetan Tyl (died 1856 ), Czech playwright and poet, author of the words of the Czech national anthem .
• 1815 - Josip Strosmayer (d. 1905 ), Catholic bishop , theologian, philanthropist, one of the leaders of the Croatian National Liberal Party .
• 1820 - Bozena Nemtsova (died 1862 ), Czech writer.
• 1829 - Gustav Jonge (died 1893 ), Belgian artist.
• 1846 - Nikolai Umov (d. 1915 ), Russian theoretical physicist, philosopher.
• 1873 - Mikhail Prishvin (d. 1954 ), Russian writer.
• 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl (d. 1953 ), German scientist, one of the founders of aerodynamics .
• 1878 - Louis Camille Mayar (died 1936 ), French scientist, doctor and chemist.
• 1881
  • Климент Ворошилов (ум. 1969 ), советский государственный, партийный и военный деятель, Маршал Советского Союза.
  • Яков Протазанов (ум. 1945 ), российский и советский кинорежиссёр, сценарист и актёр.
  • Фернан Леже́ (ум. 1955 ), французский живописец и скульптор-монументалист, авангардный кинорежиссёр.
• 1889 — Питирим Сорокин (ум. 1968 ), русский и американский философ, социолог, один из родоначальников теории социальной мобильности.
• 1892 — Стефан Нарембский (ум. 1966 ), польский архитектор, историк искусства.
• 1900 — Жак Превер (ум. 1977 ), французский поэт и сценарист.

XX century

• 1902 — Мануэль Альварес Браво (ум. 2002 ), выдающийся мексиканский фотограф.
• 1903 — Симо Байич (погиб в 1942 ), партизан, Народный герой Югославии.
• 1904 — Жорж Садуль (ум. 1967 ), французский историк, теоретик и критик кино.
• 1906 — Клайд Уильям Томбо (ум. 1997 ), американский астроном, открывший Плутон .
• 1913 — Роза Паркс (ум. 2005 ), американский общественный деятель, зачинательница движения за гражданские права чернокожих в США .
• 1915 — Норман Уиздом (ум. 2010 ), английский актёр-комик, исполнитель роли Питкина.
• 1926 — Константинас Богданас (ум. 2011 ), литовский скульптор.
• 1933 — Игорь Кваша (ум. 2012 ), актёр и режиссёр театра и кино, телеведущий, народный артист РСФСР.
• 1936 — Александра Завьялова (ум. 2016 ), советская и российская актриса театра и кино, заслуженная артистка РФ.
• 1941 — Джон Стил , британский музыкант, барабанщик группы « The Animals ».
• 1945 — Полад Бюль-Бюль Оглы , азербайджанский певец, композитор, народный артист Азербайджанской ССР.
• 1948
  • Alice Cooper (nas. Vincent Fournier ), American rock musician.
  • Marisol (nas. Pepa Flores name), Spanish singer and actress.
• 1963 - Kevin Wasserman , guitarist and backing singer of the American rock band The Offspring .
• 1964 - Vyacheslav Volodin , Russian politician and statesman, since 2016 the chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
• 1967 - Sergey Grinkov , two-time Olympic champion in pair skating on ice, four-time world champion.
• 1973 - Oscar De La Hoya , American boxer, Olympic champion (1992), world champion.
• 1975 - Natalie Imbruglia , Australian singer and actress.
• 1983 - Alexandra Ursulyak , Russian theater and film actress.
• 1985 - Leslie , French singer.

See also: Category: Dead 4 February

Until the XIX century

• 211 - Septimius Severus (b. 146 ), son of (English) , Roman emperor from 193 to 211.
• 856 - Raban Mavr , Archbishop of Mainz (b. Ca. 780), German theologian, writer. The largest figure of the era of the Carolingian Renaissance .
• 1508 - Konrad Zeltis (born 1459 ), an outstanding German humanist.
• 1615 - Giambattista della Porta (b. 1535 ), Italian doctor, philosopher, alchemist and playwright.
• 1694 - Natalia Naryshkina (b. 1651 ), Russian Tsarina, the second wife of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich , mother of Peter I.
• 1713 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (b. 1671 ), English philosopher, writer and politician, Enlightenment activist.
• 1781 - Josef Myslíček (born 1737 ), Czech composer and conductor.
• 1787 - Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (b. 1708 ), Italian painter of the Rococo and Neoclassicism .

XIX century

• 1846 - Barlaam Chikoisky (b. 1774 ), hegumen of the Monastery of St. John of St. John the Baptist , Holy Russian Church .
• 1847 - Rene Dutroshe (b. 1776 ), French physician, botanist and physiologist.
• 1875 - Mikhail Longinov (b. 1823 ), Russian writer, writer, memoirist, literary historian.
• 1894
  • Louis Lewandowski (b. 1821 ), German composer and conductor.
  • Adolf Sachs (b. 1814 ), Belgian master of musical instruments, inventor of the saxophone .

XX century

• 1925 - Robert Koldevey (born 1855 ), a German architect and archaeologist, who located the biblical Babylon and, as a result of 18-year excavations, confirmed its existence.
• 1928 - Hendrik Lorenz (b. 1853 ), Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1902).
• 1939 - Eduard Sepir (born 1884 ), American linguist and ethnologist.
• 1940 - shot:
  • Nikolai Ivanovich Ezhov (b. 1895 ), statesman, Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR;
  • Mikhail Frinovsky (b. 1898 ), leader of the Soviet state security organs, commander of the 1st rank, in 1938-1939 People's Commissar of the Navy of the USSR .
• 1944 - Arsen Kocoev (b. 1872 ), Ossetian Soviet writer, translator, publicist.
• 1950 - Jan Bulgak (b. 1876 ), Belarusian and Polish photographer, ethnographer , folklorist.
• 1965 - Bishop Kassian (in the world Sergey Sergeyevich Bezobraz ; p. 1892 ), Bishop of the Constantinople Orthodox Church, theologian, Exeget , translator of the New Testament.
• 1975 - Louis Jordan (b. 1908 ), American jazz musician, composer.
• 1978 - Arkady Kuleshov (b. 1914 ), Belarusian Soviet poet and translator, screenwriter.
• 1983 - Karen Carpenter (born 1950 ), American singer and drummer, member of the Carpenters group.
• 1991 - Alexander Shalimov (b. 1917 ), Soviet scientist-geologist and science fiction writer.
• 1995
  • Karlen Abgaryan (b. 1928 ), Soviet scientist in the field of technical cybernetics .
  • Alexander Dovzhenko (b. 1918 ), Soviet and Ukrainian psychotherapist, narcologist, author of the coding method.

XXI century

• 2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev (b. 1959 ), poet, translator, songwriter of the Nautilus Pompilius group.
• 2011 - Vladimir Kunin (b. 1927 ), Soviet and Russian writer.
• 2012 - Florence Green (b. 1901 ), the last surviving veteran of the First World War .
• 2017 - Georgy Taratorkin (b. 1945 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 2019 - Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (b. 1936 ), composer, conductor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.