4th February anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1883
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of George Kennedy Bell, English Anglican bishop of Chichester ."
• event
  • 1783
  • American Revolutionary War: Britain declares an end to hostilities with the USA.
  • 1859
  • Greece
  • "Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest known Bible, was discovered in a monastery in Egypt. The Greek manuscript is thought to date from the 4th century"
  • 1945
  • "Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin "
  • 1948
  • Sri Lanka
  • Ceylon – now Sri Lanka – became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
  • 1998
  • Afghanistan
  • "An earthquake in north-east Afghanistan killed 5,000 people"
• Death
  • 211
  • Italy
  • Roman emperor Septimius Severus dies at York
  • 1508
  • Germany
  • "Death of Conradus Celtis, German humanist scholar ."
  • 1933
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Archibald Sayce, English linguist, pioneer of Assyriology ."
  • 1983
  • United States
  • "Death of Karen Carpenter, American singer" more
  • 1984
  • United States
  • "Death of Anna Anderson, claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II whose family were killed by the Bolsheviks in July 1918"