February 4, or "Facebook" birthday, Fighting Cancer Day

Zodiac Sign Aquarius

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Aquarius, February 4. Born on this day are rarely adhere to tradition.

Due to the non-standard thinking inherent in these people, they often give the impression of windbags, neglecting their duties - at least, so it seems from the outside.

However, in reality, they are distinguished by an individual approach to doing the work.

Some of those born on February 4 early realize that they understand the world differently from most of those around them, and react to such a discovery in a manner characteristic only for them.

Others, born on this day, strive to be idols, standards in behavior, but cannot cope with this role.

The most successful of them usually bribe with their frankness, gladly accept the slightest signs of approval from the enthusiastic audience.

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Aquarius men born on February 4: Alice Cooper, Zach King, Charles Lindbergh.

• differ in the following characteristics:
• friendly,
• independent,
• original.
• By nature, Aquarians perceive the world around them more intuitively, which means that they need to trust their intuition more.

Aquarius women born on February 4: Rosa Parks, Ayami Nakajô, Natalie Imbruglia.

• have the following facets of temperament:
• clever,
• good,
• liberal.
• Women of this birthday are a little nervous, and it is sometimes difficult for them, even in a more or less conflict situation, to keep control over themselves. When this happens to them, those around them are amazed at how easy and pleasant it was before to communicate with them, when suddenly this happens to them.
• These individuals think outside the box and can easily break any established traditions and outdated stereotypes. This behavior of theirs is incomprehensible and annoying to many, but Aquarians are essentially what they are, and you should not try to change them, this is impossible.

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Make a request to the astrologer for the full horoscope of this day 

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Holidays

"Facebook" birthday

February 4, 2004

In 2004, an American student of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg launched the "The Facebook" site.

Zuckerberg, who was good in programming before, already created a number of social networks for students, such as "Coursematch", which allowed students to look through their assessments and "Facemash", where the attractiveness of people was assessed.

The name "Facebook" was taken from the directory with addresses and phone numbers of students, which was distributed to freshmen, other students and staff.

During first day, 1,200 Harvard students enrolled in the social network, and a month later, more than half of all students in the US were registered on Facebook.

Now this is the largest social network in the world, and in June 2017  the number of its users exceeded 2 billions.

Facebook Inc. is the owner of other popular services, such as Instagram, WhatsApp.

Thanks to this site Mark Zuckerberg at 23 years became the youngest billionaire of the planet.

Facebook is one of the five most visited websites in the world.

Most visited sites in the world:

1 - google.com;

2 - youtube.com;

3 - facebook.com;

4 - baidu.com;

5 - wikipedia.ogr;

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Fighting Cancer Day

World Fighting Cancer Day reminds of how dangerous and now common cancers are.

Cancer is the generic term for more than 100 diseases that can affect any part of the body.

One of the characteristic signs of cancer is the rapid formation of abnormal cells that grow beyond their normal boundaries and are able to penetrate into nearby parts of the body and spread to other organs. This process is called metastasis. Metastases are the leading cause of cancer death.

The most common types of cancer in the world (in descending order of the number of deaths in the world): among men - lung, stomach, liver, colon, esophagus and prostate cancer; among women, there is cancer of the breast, lung, stomach, colon and cervix.

In 2016-2018, World Fighting Cancer Day is held under the slogan “We can. I can". On this day, it is proposed to take collective or individual actions to alleviate the burden of cancer.

More than 30% of cancer deaths can be prevented by preventing or changing major risk factors, including:

• tobacco use;
• overweight or obesity;
• unhealthy food by eating insufficient quantities of fruits and vegetables;
• lack of physical activity;
• alcohol consumption;
• HPV and HBV infection;
• urban air pollution;
• smoke from the premises as a result of the use of solid fuels in homes.

Tobacco use is the single most significant risk factor for cancer, leading to 22% of global cancer deaths and 71% of global lung cancer deaths. In many low-income countries, up to 20% of cancer deaths result from HBV and HPV infection.

Also on February 4...

1746 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish and American military and political figure, who participated in the US War of Independence and the liberation movement in Poland, was born. National hero of Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, USA, honorary citizen of France.

1794 - France abolished slavery in its colonies.

1797 - The earthquake destroyed the capital of Ecuador, Quito.

1857 - Neanderthals were first introduced to the scientific community.

1861 - In the capital of the state of Alabama, Montgomery, representatives of six separated southern states proclaimed the formation of the Confederate States of America.

1941 - American chemist Roy Plunkett received a patent for the manufacture of tetrafluoroethylene polymer - Teflon.

1944 - scientists proved that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a carrier of genetic information.

1945 - The Crimean (Yalta) Conference of the Big Three opens. That is, the Soviet Union represented by Joseph Stalin, the United States of America represented by Franklin Roosevelt, and Great Britain under the representation of Winston Churchill. It is the Crimean Conference that will determine for many years the new post-war world order. The delimitation of spheres of influence in Europe for the first time confronted two superpowers: the USSR and the States. That was the beginning of the cold war.

1948 - Ceylon Island, from the 18th century the possession of Great Britain, proclaimed an independent state within the British Commonwealth, in May 1972, Ceylon became the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

1974 - after two years of training, in the USA, chimpanzee Nim Chimsky wrote the first word. And all because of the linguist Herbert Terrace, who decided to refute the theory of the famous Noam Chomsky, who believed that a person's ability to express himself with phrases is innate, and there is some “universal grammar” available only to Homo sapiens. Terras undertook to teach writing to chimpanzees. What word the student has written has not yet been clarified, but there are witnesses that the teacher was very unhappy. Nim Chimsky, personally destroyed the first word, not recorded in any document.

1975 - Natalie Imbruglia was born, Australian singer and actress.

1982 - TASS reports: “The fates of an old meridian circle installed at the Astronomical Observatory of Kharkov University and the modern high-speed computer have an unusual touch. The computer was needed for the mathematical processing of observations of the starry sky, carried out with the help of this circle in the years 1909-14. Then, at the beginning of the century, a group of astronomers determined the coordinates of 140 weak circumpolar stars located near the Polaris. For that time, these were unique observations. But scientists did not have to complete their research: it would have taken many decades to calculate. Started labor was waiting for his finest hour. This opportunity opened with the advent of electronic technology. Now the mathematical processing of observations made at the beginning of the century has been completed. Its final results will be listed in the International Fundamental Star Catalog ... "

1985 - UN resolution on the prohibition of torture.

2004 - Facebook launched, a social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moscovitz and Chris Hughes while studying at Harvard University.