This Day In History
February 4
1794
The French legislature abolished slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
1932
Japan occupied Harbin, China. With the establishment of Manchukuo, Japanese troops occupied Harbin on this day.
1936
Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1948
Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1952
Students of the University of Dhaka and other institutions gathered on the university premises and warned the government to withdraw its proposal to write Bengali in Arabic script, and insisted on the recognition of Bengali.
2004
Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg. There are more than 500 million active users currently on Facebook.
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