Today is Monday, February 4, the 35th day of 2013. There are 330 days left in the year.
1789 ― First U.S. electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as president and vice president
1794 ― French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery
1932 ― Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
1938 ― Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts
1945 ― FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
1969 ― Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of PLO
1971 ― British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
1985 ― Naval exercises canceled when U.S. refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons
1997 ― O.J. Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson
1998 ― Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in the Brussels