Today is Wednesday, February 4, the 35th day of 2009. There are 330 days left in the year.
1924 _ First Winter Olympics games close at Chamonix, France
1930 _ First tireless, soundless, shock-less streetcar tracks, New Orleans
1932 _ Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
1938 _ Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts
1938 _ ``Our Town," by Thornton Wilder, opens on Broadway
1945 _ FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
1962 _ Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1969 _ Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of PLO
1986 _ Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
1998 _ Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium