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Today in History: February 4

0786 Harun al-Rashid succeeds his older brother the Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi as Caliph of Baghdad.

1508 The Proclamation of Trent is made.

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

1906 The New York Police Department begins finger print identification.

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.

1986 The U.S. Post Office issues a commemorative stamp featuring Sojourner Truth.


Born on February 4

1902 Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic.

1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Protestant theologian.

1906 Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discovered Pluto.


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