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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