Today in history-February 4: Independence Day in Sri Lanka (1948)
1859 - Constantin von Tischendorf found the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the New Testament, in a monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt.
1862 - Bacardi, one of the world's largest rum producers, was founded as a small distillery in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
1899 - The Philippine-American War began.
1945 - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta Conference.
1957 - USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logged her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. |
