February 4, 1789 Voters unanimously choose George Washington to be the first President of the United States and John Adams as Vice President.

1945 US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin begin a wartime conference at Yalta in the Crimea, southern Ukraine.

February 5, 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory, England, begins to transmit a time signal every hour, known as Greenwich Mean Tim