February
4
Independence
Day
Sri Lanka : February 4 1948
February
4
World Cancer Day
Day of the Armed Struggle (Angola)
Independence Day, celebrates the
independence of Sri Lanka from the
United Kingdom in 1948.
Rosa Parks Day (United States)
February
4 : World Cancer Day
Cancer
is a leading cause of death around
the world. WHO estimates that 84
million people will die of cancer
between 2005 and 2015 without intervention.
Each
year on 4 February, WHO supports
International Union Against Cancer
to promote ways to ease the global
burden of cancer. Preventing cancer
and raising quality of life for
cancer patients are recurring themes.
WHO
guide on cancer
In 2005, 7.6 million people
died of cancer. More than 70% of
those deaths occured in low and
middle income countries. WHO has
developed a series of six modules
that provides practical advice for
programme managers and policy-makers
on how to advocate, plan and implement
effective cancer control programmes,
particularly in low and middle income
countries.
The
WHO guide is a response to the World
Health Assembly resolution on cancer
prevention and control (WHA58.22),
adopted in May 2005, which calls
on Member States to intensify action
against cancer by developing and
reinforcing cancer control programmes.
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Events
69 - A strong earthquake
struck the Ionian coast of Sicily,
causing tens of thousands of victims,
especially in Catania.
1789 – George Washington is unanimously
elected as the first President of
the United States by the U.S. Electoral
College.
1794 – The French legislature abolishes
slavery throughout all territories
of the French Republic.
1797 – The Riobamba earthquake strikes
Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1936 – Radium becomes the first
radioactive element to be made synthetically.
1948 – Ceylon (later renamed Sri
Lanka) becomes independent within
the British Commonwealth.
1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight
60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing
133.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar
Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's
Launch Complex 13 on its mission
to identify possible landing sites
for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1975 – Haicheng earthquake (magnitude
7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs
in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras
an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1
on the Richter Scale in northeast
Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
2002 – Cancer Research UK, the world's
largest independent cancer research
charity, is founded.
2003 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
is officially renamed to Serbia
and Montenegro and adopts a new
constitution.
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online
social network is founded by Mark
Zuckerberg.
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