On this day: February 4

February 4: Liberation Movement Day in Angola (1961); Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948)

Text from the Codex Sinaiticus

• 960 – Emperor Taizu began his reign in China, initiating the Song dynasty period that eventually lasted for more than three centuries.
• 1859 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus (text sample pictured), a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt.
• 1974 – American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined in one of the most well-known cases of Stockholm syndrome.
• 1999 – The Panamanian-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in Oregon history.
• 2006 – A stampede at the PhilSports Stadium in Pasig City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines, killed 78 people and injured about 400.

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