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THIS DAY IN HISTORY Saturday, 4 February 2012

	1789 George Washington was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States.

	1922 Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (d. 2011), renowned Hindustani classical singer of the Kirana Gharana, was born in Karnataka.

	1924 The first Winter Olympics ended at Chamonix in France.

	1948 Sri Lanka’s National Day, when the country gained independence from Britain.

	1969 Yasser Arafat became the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

	1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt.

	1990 Richard Hadlee claimed his 400th wicket in Test cricket – India’s Sanjay Manjrekar was his victim.

	2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

	2004 A stampede outside a sports stadium in the Philippine capital, Manila, killed 73 people and injured over 300.