4 February
Notable Births
Kyla Kenedy
b. 2003
American actress (born 2003)
Rasmus Højlund
b. 2003
Danish footballer (born 2003)
MJ Lenderman
b. 1999
American musician (born 1999)
Malik Monk
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Maximilian Wöber
b. 1998
Austrian footballer (born 1998)
Mohamed Sherif
b. 1996
Egyptian footballer (born 1996)
Lavoy Allen
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Carly Patterson
b. 1988
American singer and gymnast (born 1988)
Lucie Šafářová
b. 1987
Czech tennis player (born 1987)
Maximilian Götz
b. 1986
German racing driver
Mahmudullah
b. 1986
Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1986)
Doug Fister
b. 1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Mauricio Pinilla
b. 1984
Chilean footballer
Hannibal Buress
b. 1983
American comedian (born 1983)
Rebecca White
b. 1983
Australian politician
Jason Kapono
b. 1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
Johan Vansummeren
b. 1981
Belgian road bicycle racer
Giorgio Pantano
b. 1979
Italian racing driver (born 1979)
Gavin DeGraw
b. 1977
American singer
Cam'ron
b. 1976
American rapper (born 1976)
Notable Deaths
Aga Khan IV
d. 2025
Islamic Imam, 1957–2025
Barry John
d. 2024
British Lions & Wales international rugby union player (1945–2024)
Vani Jairam
d. 2023
Indian singer (1943–2023)
Sherif Ismail
d. 2023
Prime Minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018
Kim In-hyeok
d. 2022
South Korean volleyball player (1995–2022)
Millie Hughes-Fulford
d. 2021
American astronaut and academic researcher (1945–2021)
Daniel arap Moi
d. 2020
President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002
Matti Nykänen
d. 2019
Finnish ski jumper (1963–2019)
John Mahoney
d. 2018
American actor (1940–2018)
Bano Qudsia
d. 2017
Pakistani writer (1928–2017)
Edgar Mitchell
d. 2016
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2016)
Fitzhugh L. Fulton
d. 2015
American test pilot
Keith Allen (ice hockey)
d. 2014
Canadian ice hockey player
Donald Byrd
d. 2013
American jazz trumpeter (1932–2013)
Reg Presley
d. 2013
British singer (1941–2013)
István Csurka
d. 2012
Hungarian politician and writer (1934–2012)
Florence Green
d. 2012
Last surviving veteran of World War I (1901–2012)
Robert Daniel
d. 2012
American politician
Mike deGruy
d. 2012
American documentary filmmaker (1951–2012)
Susanne Suba
d. 2012
Hungarian-American artist
On This Day in History
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2025
Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at an adult education centre in Örebro, Sweden.
Örebro school shooting
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic causes all casinos in Macau to be closed down for 15 days.
COVID-19 pandemic
2015
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.
TransAsia Airways Flight 235
2008
Civic mobilizations in Colombia against FARC, under the name A million voices against the FARC.
Colombia
2004
Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
2003
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia adopts a new constitution, becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.
Serbia and Montenegro
2000
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.
Jacques Chirac
1999
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.
Killing of Amadou Diallo
1998
The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake
1997
En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.
Lebanon
1997
The Bojnurd earthquake measuring Mw 6.5 strikes Iran. With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages.
1997 Bojnurd earthquake
1992
A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
February 1992 Venezuelan coup attempt
1977
A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
Chicago Transit Authority
1976
In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
Guatemala
1975
Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1975 Haicheng earthquake
1974
The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
Symbionese Liberation Army
1974
M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
M62 coach bombing
1967
Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
Lunar Orbiter program
1966
All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
All Nippon Airways Flight 60
1961
The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
Angolan War of Independence