On This Day for February 4 - Yalta Conference opened, Rosa Parks is featured, and more

Created: 2020-02-04 11:02 Updated: 2020-02-04 11:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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February 04

Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1913

Rosa Parks

Yalta Conference

FEATURED EVENT

1945

Yalta Conference opened

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Serbia and Montenegro

2003: Yugoslavia officially changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro .

Sri Lanka

1948: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from Great Britain.

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Friedan, Betty

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Charles Lindbergh
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Ida Lupino
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1959

Lawrence Taylor
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Dan Quayle
vice president of United States

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian

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