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Wednesday, 04 February 2026
1933 Nevada is recorded as becoming inaugural US state to regulate narcotics. 
1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif
1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1934 Fou Ts Ong, Chinese pianist is born.
1934 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Suzanne Davis.
1934 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
1935 Barend Barendse, actor/director (Broken Lives), dies at 82.
1937 An audience of 21000 jitterbuggers jammed the Paramount Theatre in New York City to see Benny Goodman whom they would crown, ‘King of Swing’ on this night. The popular musician was.
1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1940 Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1943 In northern Bulgaria, farmers threaten to lie down on the tracks to prevent the deportation of Jews. Government rescinds the order to deport Northern Bulgarian Jews
1943 Tully Marshall, actor (Let's Go, Red Dust), dies at 78.
1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52.
1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine.
1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence.
1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's inaugural Army.
1945 Tokyo on fire after night time B-29 bombing.
1945 US troops lands on Mindanao.
1946 Train derailment results in the deaths of 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca.
1948 Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered.
1949 Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 perfs.
1952 Military coup by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92.
1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios.
1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1132 mph (1823 kph).
1957 Shannon Lee Tweed model, actress, born at St John's Newfoundland in 1957. Tweed was Playboy Playmate, Nov 1981 and Playmate of the Year; actress, Meatballs 3, ws born.
1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
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