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Today is Tuesday 4 February, the 35th day of 2025. There are 330 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On February 4, 1997, a civil jury found in Santa Monica, California, OJ Simpson for the death of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, who ordered Simpson to pay $ 33.5 million to the Victims families.
Also on this date:
In 1789, voters unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
In 1801, John Marshall found took office as chief judge of the United States, a position that he would take 34 years for a record.
In 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin started a war conference in Yalta.
In 1974 the heiress of the newspaper Patricia Hearst, 19, was abducted in Berkeley, California, by the Radical Symbionese Liberation Army.
In 1976, more than 23,000 people died when a serious earthquake met Guatemala with a size of 7.5.
In 2004, Facebook had the beginning when Harvard -student Mark Zuckerberg launched ‘Thefacebook’.
In 2013, British scientists announced that the remains they had discovered during an excavation under a parking lot of Leicester, England, without reasonable doubt, the remains of the 15th -century Monarch King Richard III.
In 2021, a voting technology company, SmartMatic USA, Fox News, three of his hosts and two former Trump lawyers – Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell – charged $ 2.7 billion, due to alleged conspiracy to spread false claims that the company has the company The “stable” presidential elections. (The case keeps going.)
Today’s birthdays:
- Former Argentinian President Isabel Peron is 94.
- Former vice president than Quayle is 78.
- Rock singer Alice Cooper is 77.
- Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is 72.
- Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor is 66.
- Country singer Clint Black is 63.
- Boxing Hall of Famer Oscar de la Hoya is 52.
- Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 50.
- Rapper Cam’ron is 49.
- Singer-songwriter Gavin Degraw is 48.
- Olympic gymnastics gold medal winner Carly Patterson is 37.