February 4: Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948)
Emperor Taizu of Song
- 960 – Emperor Taizu (pictured) began his reign in China, initiating the Song dynasty period that eventually lasted for more than three centuries.
- 1899 – The Philippine–American War opened when an American soldier, under orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired upon a Filipino soldier in Manila.
- 1945 – World War II: U.S. Army forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest of the Japanese internment camps in the Philippines.
- 1998 – A magnitude 5.9 MW earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, triggering landslides that destroyed around 15,000 homes.
- 2008 – The London low emission zone, governing what types of vehicles may enter Greater London, came into being.
Ceolnoth (d. 870) · Carl Michael Bellman (b. 1740) · Jenny Shipley (b. 1952)
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