On this day — February 4

Sweden.

with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after takeoff, killing 43 people.

under the name A million voices against the FARC.

is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.

becoming a loose confederacy between Montenegro and Serbia.

Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.

two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel, killing 73.

With a Mercalli intensity of VIII, it kills at least 88 and damages 173 villages.

killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.

Liaoning, China.