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 — A police firing, then a crowd burns the station with 22 constables inside. Gandhi, over furious objections, halts the whole national movement: a people not yet disciplined in non-violence, he argues, cannot be trusted with it. The halt is debated to this day.
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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 becomes a dominion by negotiation — no march, no partition, no massacre. The same empire, the same year, a different exit: the comparison every historian of 1947 must answer.
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