On This Day:
Tuesday February 4, 2014 This is the 35th day of the year, with 330 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Barbie doll Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel, invented the Barbie doll in 1959 and named her after her daughter, Barbara; Barbie's full, fictional name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. In her first year, 351,000 Barbie dolls sold for $3.00 each. If the Barbie doll were a real human, her measurements would be 36-18-33. The Ken doll, Barbie's boyfriend until 2004, was invented in 1961 and is named after Ruth's son. Barbie outsells Ken by a margin of almost two to one, with two Barbies being sold every second. Over the years, Barbie has had over 80 careers, even running as a presidential candidate in 1992. Her first job was a teenage fashion model.
Holidays Sri Lanka: Independence Day.
Feast day of St. Theophilus the Penitent, St. Nicholas Studites, St. Andrew Corsini, bishop, St. Joan of Valois, St. Isidore of Pelusium, St. John de Britto, St. Modan, St. Phileas, St. Joseph of Leonessa, and St. Rembert.
Angola: Armed Struggle Day.
Events 1783 - Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.
1789 - Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first President of the United States. John Adams of Massachusetts, who received 34 votes, was elected vice president.
1861 - Delegates from six southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana) met in Montgomery, Alabama, to form the Confederate States of America.
1887 - The Interstate Commerce Commission was established.
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid siege to Port Arthur.
1913 - Louis Perlman of New York City received a patent for his demountable tire-carrying rims, which we now call wheels.
1932 - The first Winter Olympic Games in the United States were held at Lake Placid, New York.
1941 - The United Service Organizations (USO) was founded order to provide recreation for on-leave members of the U.S. armed forces and their families.
1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began the wartime Yalta Conference meeting.
1948 - The island nation of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1957 - Smith-Corona began selling portable electric typewriters.
1974 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1976 - More than 22,000 people died when a severe earthquake struck Guatemala and Honduras.
1997 - A civil jury in Santa Monica, California, found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
2003 - Lawmakers formally dissolved Yugoslavia and replaced it with a union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.
Births 1902 - Charles Lindbergh, American aviator.
1913 - Rosa Lee Parks, American civil rights activist.
1921 - Betty Friedan (Goldstein), American feminist author, founder of the National Organization for Women.
1921 - Betty Friedan (born Bettye Naomi Goldstein), American feminist, activist and writer.
1945 - David Brenner, American standup comedian, actor, author, and filmmaker.
1947 - James Danforth "Dan" Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States.
1948 - Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier), American rock singer, songwriter, and musician.
1973 - Oscar de la Hoya, a Mexican-American boxer who won a gold medal for the United States Boxing Team at the Barcelona Olympic Games.
Deaths 1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer.
1987 - Liberace (born Wladziu Valentino Liberace), American entertainer.
2006 - Betty Friedan (born Bettye Naomi Goldstein), American feminist, activist and writer.
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