THE DAY IN HISTORY · FEBRUARY 4
February 4 in history
What happened on February 4: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1922, 1945 and 1948, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Chauri Chaura incident
4 Feb 1922 — After police fired, a crowd burned the station with 22 constables inside. Gandhi responded by halting the entire national movement, despite furious objections. He argued that a people not yet disciplined in non-violence could not be trusted with the movement. The decision remains contested today.
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Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin convene at Yalta to design the postwar world — and, in effect, to ratify where their armies will stand.
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— Independence of Ceylon
4 Feb 1948 — Ceylon became a dominion through negotiation. There was no march, partition or massacre. The British Empire had left another territory by a different route in the same year, and the comparison raises a question every historian of 1947 must answer.
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