About February 4

February 4, 2025 is the 35th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 378 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 4

  • 960 –
    The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
  • 1794 –
    The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
  • 1820 –
    The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
  • 1825 –
    The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
  • 1846 –
    The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.
  • 1899 –
    The Philippine-American War begins.
  • 1905 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Snake in Chinese astrology.
  • 1932 –
    Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
  • 1945 –
    World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
  • 1948 –
    Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
  • 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.
  • 1969 –
    Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
  • 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.
  • 1975 –
    Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
  • 1980 –
    Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
  • 1997 –
    En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
  • 1999 –
    The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
  • 2000 –
    German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
  • 2002 –
    Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.
  • 2006 –
    A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.

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