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What happened today in history?
Uncle Woody's Almanac
for
February 4
| 1997 | A civil jury finds O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her companion, Ronald Goldman.
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| 1987 | Flamboyant pianist-entertainer Liberace dies at his Palm Springs, California , home at age 67.
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1983 | 
Pop singer-drummer Karen Carpenter dies in Downey, California, at age 32.
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| 1980 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Bani-Sadr as president of Iran.
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| 1975 | A strong earthquake rocks Guatemala and Honduras, killing more than 22,000 people.
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| 1975 | R&B bandleader-saxophonist Louis Jordan dies in Los Angeles at age 66.
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| 1974 | Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped in Berkeley, California, by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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| 1941 | The United Service Organizations (USO) is created, at the request of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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| 1938 | The Thornton Wilder play, Our Town, debuts in New York City.
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| 1932 | Lake Placid, NY hosts the first Winter Olympics. Lake Placid would reprise its role as host city in 1980.
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1789 |  The first presidential election is held in the US. Electors met in each state, cast their
votes, and sent the sealed ballots to the US Congress. Although the votes would not be
opened and counted for several months, it was widely believed that George Washington
would receive the most votes for president.
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| 1783 | England agrees to end hostilities against the US.
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