What happend on 4th February

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1968

Bowie Kuhn becomes the fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball, replacing William Eckert

1966

All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay killing 133

1962

Ian Fleming's The Living Daylights first published

1960

Lorraine, Quebec is founded.

1957

USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logged her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

1948

Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.

1945

World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin begin the Yalta Conference.

1943

Battle of Stalingrad ends.

1941

World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.

1938

Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released, and it went on to become a major box-office success, making more money than any other motion picture in 1938.