February 4

On This Day In History
	1945: Yalta Conference opened On this day in 1945, during the final stages of World War II, the Yalta Conference opened with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meeting to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.
(From left) Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference
Biography Of The Day
	Betty Friedan Born this day in 1921 was American feminist Betty Friedan, cofounder of the National Organization for Women and author of The Feminine Mystique (1963), which studied the frustrations of modern women in traditional roles.
Betty Friedan, 1999.
More Events On This Day In History
	2003 Yugoslavia officially changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.
1974	1974 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
	1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gained independence from Great Britain.
1932	1932 The United States hosted its first Winter Olympic Games, in Lake Placid, New York.
1906	1906 German Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland).
	1902 American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan.
	1789 George Washington was elected to serve as the first U.S. president by a unanimous vote in the first electoral college.
1787	1787 Shays's Rebellion, an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions, was defeated by the Springfield militia.