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TODAY - Feb 04, 2026

Thought of the Day

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Today's Birthday

Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh Astronomer, American(1906)

An American astronomer who is best known for discovering Pluto and later classified it as a Dwarf planet in 1930.

 
Byron Nelson
Byron Nelson Professional Golfer, American(1912)

An American professional golfer who won the first two US master titles.

 
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Activist, American(1913)

An African-American civil rights activist, also known as “the mother of the freedom movement”.

 
Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle Politician, American(1947)

An American politician and 44th Vice President of the United States.

 
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh Engineer, American(1902)

An American engineer, and aviator, who won the Pulitzer Prize

This day in History

1793

Slavery is abolished in all French territories.

1789

The Electoral College unanimously votes for George Washington as the first president of the United States.

1974

Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose passed away at the age of 80. His work in Quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose- Einstein statistics and the theory of Bose- Einstein condensate.

1997

J.C. Watts is the first African-American to give the Republican response to a presidential State of the Union Address.

Man who made the difference

Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974)

Charles Lindbergh

An American engineer, and aviator, who won the Pulitzer Prize, was born February 4, 1902, in Michigan, United States. He was the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. He attended a flying school in Lincoln and in 1922, he began flying. In 1919, for a prize of $25,000, he competed for the first nonstop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York City. His achievement won the acclaim of the world and he became the hero in United States and Europe. Later, he served as a technical adviser to commercial airlines. He made "goodwill tours" of Central America, Mexico and West Indies. He died on August 26, 1974, in Hawaii, United States.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal