The way it was: Today in history
Throwback Thursday: A look back at events in history on February 4, including a streaker at the Oscars and Eisenhower registers Republican.
The Ministry of Home Security announces that a new anti-gas respirator will shortly be issued to persons who are unable to wear any ordinary type of gas mask. The new type of anti-gas helmet, Feb. 4, 1941.
Stalin, FDR & Churchill at Yalta
British Prime minister Winston Churchill (L), US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (C) and USSR Secretary general of the Soviet Communist Party (PCUS), Joseph Stalin (R) pose at the start of the Conference of the Allied powers in Yalta, Crimea, on February 4, 1945 at the end of World War II.
During the Yalta Conference, which took place from February 4 to 11, 1945, "The Big Three" (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill) decided the demilitarization and denazification of Germany and carved out their own post-war zones of influence across the globe.
"Bunny Hug"
The "Bunny Hug", first presented by the original castles, Vernon and Irene, some quarter of a century past, has been revived and revised by Mario and Floria, Dance team currently appearing at the St. Regis Hotel Iridium Room, Feb. 4, 1945 in New York.
In the heel and Toe movement, a rapid step, partners face front for eight counts. At left, Mario and Floria, at right: Irene and Vernon Castle.
The "Bunny Hug" starts with left foot walk eight counts and kick back with bright legs at even balance on the eighth count.
Widow of hero policeman
Mrs. Kate Quinn, 75-year-old widow of a hero policeman, sits in a rocking chair with her household belongings after she was evicted from her apartment at 1044 Belmont Avenue in Chicago, Feb. 4, 1948.
Her husband was slain in 1903 while trying to arrest a member of Chicago's "Car Barn" gang.
1952 Olympic figure skaters
Members of the 1952 Canadian Olympic figure skating team go through a practice session at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway in preparation for the forthcoming Winter Olympic games, Feb. 4, 1952. Left to right are: Marlene Elizabeth Smith, Norris Bowden; Frances Dafoe; Peter Firstbrook; and Vevi Smith.
Nazis on trial
Picture released in February 4, 1953 of Leon Neppel, general curate of the diocese of Strasbourg, testifying at the trial of the Nazis as members of the Reich, 14 were Alsatians, accused of the execution of 642 people in the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, at the military tribunal of Bordeaux.
Eisenhower registers Republican
Clarence C. Smith, clerk to the Adams county commissioners, questions President Dwight Eisenhower when the Chief Executive became a registered Republican voter in Cumberland TWP., Feb. 4, 1956.
Smith filled out the registration card. Mrs. Eisenhower looks on along with Chairman Basehore, left.
O.J. Simpson - Athlete of the Year
O.J. Simpson, Buffalo Bills running back, receives the S. Rae Hickock Professional Athlete of the Year award at a ceremony in New York, Feb. 4, 1974.
At right is Phil Rizzuto, who was the first recipient of the award in 1950. Simpson is the fourth football player to receive the award and a diamond studded gold-buckled belt worth more than $15,000.
O.J. Simpson
A Santa Monica police officer looks on as defendant O.J. Simpson (R) arrives at the Santa Monica Courthouse where he was found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in the wrongful death civil trial civil trial, February 4, 1997. Simpson was ordered to pay $25 million in punitive damages to the families of Brown Simpson and Goldman. The former football star was also ordered to pay $8.5 million in compensatory damages to the Goldman family.
The criminal trial lasted eight months and resulted in an acquittal for Simpson in 1995 on two counts of murder for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend Goldman.
Oscars streaker & David Niven
A streaker appears on stage surprising David Niven, right, who isn't quite sure what's happening behind him, as the man later identified as Robert Opel, unexpectedly crosses the stage near the end of the Academy Awards show in Los Angeles, Feb. 4, 1974.
Patty Hearst
Patricia Hearst leaves the Federal Building in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1976 after the first day of her trial on bank robbery charges.
Arguments began after a jury of five men and seven women, plus four alternates, was seated on Wednesday, two years to the day after Miss Hearstís kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Calvin Klein
Fashion designer Calvin Klein speaks to reporters during a joint news conference called by the New York City police department and the FBI, Feb. 4, 1978, to announce the arrest of three people in connection with the kidnapping of Klein's 11-year-old daughter Marci.
On the table in front of Klein is the $100,000 ransom Klein paid the abductors. Others are unidentified.
Reagan cabinet
Photo taken February 4, 1981 shows President Ronald Reagan, Vice-President George Bush and the Reagan Cabinet members: (from L to R, front row) Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr, President Reagan, VIce-President Bush, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, (from L to R, 2nd row) Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan, Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, Office of Management and Budget David Stockman, Secretary of Transportation Andrew L. Lewis, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel R. Pierce, Attorney General William Franch Smith, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Counselor to the President Edwin Meese III, Secretary of Energy James B. Edwards, Secretary of Commerce Malcom Baldridge, United States Trade Representative William E. Brock, Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker, Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, Central Intelligence Agency William J. Casey.
Mandelas
Winnie Mandela, right, wife of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, left, arrive at the Johannesburg Supreme Court Monday, Feb. 4, 1991 in Johannesburg, where Mrs. Mandela appeared on kidnapping and assault charges.
Gates gets whip cream in face
Speech in hand, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates still bears the hallmark of a whipped cream pastry attack at the "Concert Nobel" in Brussels on February 4, 1998, where he was addressing a conference marking the 10th Anniversary of Flanders Technology.
Gates, on a European speaking tour, managed a quick clean up in a nearby toilet before addressing a slightly bewildered audience. The motive behind the attack is not known.
Military on trial
Major Daniel Daugherty (L), Major Stu Couch (C) and Lieutenant Colonel Carol Joyce, prosecution team in the trial of Captain Richard Ashby, pilot of a U.S. Marine jet that severed the cables of a ski gondola near Aviano, Italy, arrive for the first day of jury selection at Camp LeJeune, North Caroline, February 4, 1999.
Ashby and his navigator, Joseph Schweitzer, are charged with 20 counts of manslaughter and negligent homicide for the deaths of the gondolas passengers and could face life in prison if convicted.
New York recycling
Worker Morris Jones carries recycled bottles at the We Can redemption center February 25, 2002 in New York City.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a proposal to suspend the city's metal, glass and plastic recycling to help to help eliminate a $4.76 billion budget deficit. The proposal was met with widespread criticism.
100th birthday of Rosa Parks
A worker displays a First Day of Issue stamp of the new Rosa Parks stamp, a commemorative one issued by the U.S. Postal Service honoring civil rights icon, February 4, 2013 at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.
The stamp went on sale February 4, 2013 on what would have been Rosa Park's 100th birthday.