Today's 4 February Fun Facts in History

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  • 1784 First unmanned balloon flight in Ireland

The Garden Party

1922 First part of Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Garden Party" appears in the Saturday Westminster Gazette

  • 1936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)
  • 1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
  • 1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports that baseball is an old Russian game

Rumours

1977 "Rumours" 11th studio album by Fleetwood Mac is released (Grammy Album of the Year)

  • 1982 Paper airplane flies for then indoor record of 154.2 ft (47m) in Tacoma, Washington
  • 1984 Frank Aquilera sets then world record for distance of a frisbee flying disc toss of 551.2 ft (168m) in Las Vegas, Nevada
  • 1995 Archaeologist Kent R. Weeks crawls inside KV5, the tomb of the sons of Ramases II, to discover the largest tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings [1]

Gates Hit by Pie

1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium

  • 2000 Simulation video game "The Sims" developed by Maxis released in North America
  • 2021 First successful face and double hand transplant announced performed on 22 year-old Joe DiMeo in New York
  • 2025 Zara Lachlan becomes the first woman and youngest person to slow row from Europe to South America over 97 days (3,600 nautical-miles)


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