Important Events on February the 4th:
 | 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague |
| 1847 - 1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland |
| 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education is formed |
| 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads |
| 1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines |
| 1932 - 1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY |
| 1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E |
| 1945 - Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR |
| 1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day) |
| 1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY |
| 1964 - Amendment 24 banning poll tax |
| 1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game |
| 1973 - Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled |
| 1974 - Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army |
| 1984 - Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore |
| 1985 - 20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture |
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