Published on 12:00 AM, February 05, 2019

BITS OF HISTORY

(FEBRUARY 4)

1945: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss plans for the defeat of the Axis powers and decide on the post-war world.

1976: An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale and resulting mudslides killed 23,000 people near Guatemala City.

2004: Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.