This week in history
Feb 4, 2004
Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
Feb 5, 1958
A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
Feb 6, 1988
Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
Feb 7, 1900
A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in continental US.
Feb 8, 1879
Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
Feb 9, 1895
William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
Feb 10, 1306
In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.