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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 4 February.

1. Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
2. 1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
3. Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
4. Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
5. Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
6. 1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY
7. 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
8. Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR
9. Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
10. 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY
11. Amendment 24 banning poll tax
12. Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
13. Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
14. Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
15. Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
16. 20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture

These famous people were born on 4 February.

1. 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist & father of aerodynamics
2. 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, (Lucky Lindy) 1st to fly solo across Atlantic
3. 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
4. 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, musical conductor (or 0203)
5. 1918 - Ida Lupino, Actress
6. 1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist & writer (The Feminine Mystique)
7. 1923 - Conrad Bain, Actor
8. 1931 - Isabel Peron, Argentine president
9. 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso
10. 1943 - Cheryl Miller, in Sherman Oaks
11. 1944 - Florence LaRue, in Gordon Pennsylvania & one of 5th Dimension
12. 1948 - Alice Cooper, singer
13. 1950 - Pamela Franklin
14. 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn
15. 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, NY Giants linebacker
16. 1960 - Pamela Ferdin