1789CE
Politics
First US Electoral College Convenes
The first Electoral College unanimously elects George Washington as President of the United States.
Daily Chronicle
February 4
3 Historical Records
1913CE
Birth
Rosa Parks Born
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. Her act of defiance became an important symbol of the civil rights movement.
1974CE
Other
Patty Hearst Kidnapped
Heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in Berkeley, California.