WHAT HAPPENED ON 4. FEBRUARY
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The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops. (4. February 1941)

World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority (4. February 1945)

World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. (4. February 1945)

World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations. (4. February 1945)

Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. (4. February 1948)

All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133. (4. February 1966)

Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft. (4. February 1967)

Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. (4. February 1969)

The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. (4. February 1974)

M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. (4. February 1974)

Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. (4. February 1975)

In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. (4. February 1976)

A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history. (4. February 1977)

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran. (4. February 1980)

A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez. (4. February 1992)

Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at -26 °F (-32.2 °C) (4. February 1996)

En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73. (4. February 1997)

After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections. (4. February 1997)

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000. (4. February 1998)

Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city. (4. February 1999)