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Events on February 4

• 1194 After the payment of the ransom and the fulfillment of all the conditions, including his submission to Emperor Henry VI, the English King Richard the Lionheart, who has been held captive by the Austrian Duke Leopold V since December 1192, is released.
• 1789 At the first presidential election in the United States, George Washington is unanimously elected the first President of the United States by the Electoral College. John Adams becomes Vice President.
• 1857 After examining fossil bones, Hermann Schaaffhausen reports to the Lower Rhine Society for Natural History and Medicine in Bonn on a previously unknown early human, the Neanderthal. There he presents a plaster cast of the skullcap found by Johann Carl Fuhlrott in the Neander Valley.
• 1899 The football club Werder von 1899, now known as Werder Bremen, is founded by a group of school pupils.
• 1933 Under the decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the German People, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg restricts the fundamental rights of the Weimar Constitution, particularly freedom of assembly and freedom of the press. Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick is granted extensive powers.
• 1945 On the Soviet Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, the Yalta Conference begins, attended by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet party and government leader Josef Stalin. The reorganization of Europe after the Second World War is discussed there.
• 1956 The East German airline Deutsche Lufthansa begins its first scheduled service on the Berlin–Warsaw air route.
• 1972 Lufthansa and Aeroflot begin scheduled service between Frankfurt am Main and Moscow.
• 1976 The XII Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck are opened by the Austrian Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger. At the opening ceremony, two Olympic flames are lit. The first is lit by Christl Haas, the second by Josef Feistmantl.
• 2000 In Austria, the FPÖ-ÖVP government under Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel is sworn in by Federal President Thomas Klestil. With approximately 10,000 demonstrators at Heldenplatz, the government team has to make its way through an underground passage to the swearing-in ceremony in the Hofburg.
• 2000 After a month-long takeover battle, the supervisory board of Mannesmann AG approves the takeover by Vodafone Group, which thereby rises to become the world's largest mobile phone provider.
• 2018 The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New England Patriots 41:33 in Super Bowl LII and win a Super Bowl for the first time in their history.

Born on February 4

• 1871 Friedrich Ebert, German politician
• 1881 Fernand Léger, French painter, graphic artist and ceramic artist
• 1902 Charles Lindbergh, American pilot
• 1931 Isabel Martínez de Perón, Argentine politician
• 1940 George A. Romero, American director and producer
• 1941 Edina Pop, German-Hungarian pop singer
• 1950 Freya Klier, German writer, director and civil rights activist
• 1960 Maren Gilzer, German actress and photo model
• 1990 Nairo Quintana, Colombian racing cyclist
• 1991 Mathew Leckie, Australian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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