On Feb. 4, 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
On Feb. 4, 1902, Charles A. Lindbergh, the American aviator who became the first man to fly the Atlantic solo nonstop from the United States to Europe, was born. Following his death on Aug. 26, 1974, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
| 1783 | Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War. |
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| 1789 | Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. |
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| 1801 | John Marshall was sworn in as chief justice of the United States. |
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| 1861 | Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America. |
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| 1913 | Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala. |
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| 1938 | The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway. |
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| 1941 | The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed. |
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| 1945 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta. |
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| 1948 | The island nation of Ceylon - now Sri Lanka - became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth. |
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| 1974 | Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army. |
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| 1977 | The album "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac was released. |
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| 1997 | A civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. |
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| 1999 | Four plainclothes New York City police officers fired 41 bullets at Amadou Diallo in front of his Bronx home after mistaking his wallet for a gun. The unarmed West African immigrant was killed. |
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| 2003 | Yugoslavia was dissolved and replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro. |
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| 2004 | The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry. |
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| 2004 | The social networking website Facebook was launched. |
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Current Birthdays
Country musician Clint Black turns 49 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
Rock singer Gavin DeGraw turns 34 years old today.
AP Photo/Peter Kramer
| 1923 | Conrad Bain, Actor ("Diff'rent Strokes"), turns 88 |
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| 1940 | George A. Romero, Director, turns 71 |
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| 1947 | Dan Quayle, Former vice president, turns 64 |
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| 1948 | Alice Cooper, Rock singer, turns 63 |
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| 1959 | Lawrence Taylor, Football Hall of Famer, turns 52 |
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| 1971 | Rob Corddry, Actor, turns 40 |
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| 1975 | Natalie Imbruglia, Rock singer, turns 36 |
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| 1988 | Carly Patterson, Gymnast, turns 23 |
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Historic Birthdays
| 85 | Mark Hopkins 2/4/1802 - 6/17/1887
American educator and theologian |
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| 85 | Clement Ader 2/4/1841 - 3/5/1926
French engineer and pioneer of flight |
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| 78 | Ludwig Prandtl 2/4/1875 - 8/15/1953
German physicist, "father of aerodynamics" |
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| 70 | Jacques Copeau 2/4/1879 - 10/20/1949
French actor/critic/director |
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| 74 | Fernand Leger 2/4/1881 - 8/17/1955
French painter |
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| 75 | George Kennedy Bell 2/4/1883 - 10/3/1958
English Anglican bishop of Chichester |
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| 95 | Raymond Dart 2/4/1893 - 11/22/1988
Australian-bn. South African physical anthropologist |
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| 73 | MacKinlay Kantor 2/4/1904 - 10/11/1977
American author/newspaperman |
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| 39 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2/4/1906 - 4/9/1945
German Protestant theologian |
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| 90 | Clyde W. Tombaugh 2/4/1906 - 1/17/1997
American astronomer who discovered Pluto |
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