What happend on 4th February

03.02
05.02
1938

Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens (New York City).

1936

Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

1934

Asteroid 2824 Franke discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.

1932

Asteroid 1239 Queteleta discovered by Eugène Joseph Delporte.

1932

1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.

1932

World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.

1927

The first talkie is released

1915

Germany establishes a submarine blockade around the UK and declares any vessel in it a legitimate target.

1899

The Philippine-American War begins.

1862

Bacardi, one of the world's largest spirits company, was founded as a small distillery in Santiago de Cuba in eastern Cuba.