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February 4

1787 Shay's Rebellion, an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers against the new U.S. government, fails.

1795 France abolishes slavery in her territories and confers slaves to citizens.

1889 Harry Longabaugh is released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous nickname, "the Sundance Kid."

1899 After an exchange of gunfire, fighting breaks out between American troops and Filipinos near Manila, sparking the Philippine-American War

1909 California law segregates Caucasian and Japanese schoolchildren.

1915 Germany decrees British waters as part of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without warning.

1941 The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries.

1974 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, beginning one of the most bizarre cases in FBI history.


Born on February 4

1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist.

1947 Dan Quayle, vice president under President George H.W. Bush.


JOTD

I've come to the realization that suicide would solve all my problems...



... if I could just get the right people to try it.