Friday, February 04, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

FEBRUARY 4
2004:Harvard University sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launches a social networking website for Harvard students at www.thefacebook.com. Seven years later, Facebook (now without the “the”) is a multibillion dollar company with over 600 million registered members around the world.

1974: Nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped from her Berkeley, Calif., apartment by three members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a militant leftist group led by Donald DeFreeze.

1983: At age 32, singer Karen Carpenter of the pop duo the Carpenters dies of heart failure brought on by nearly a decade of living with anorexia nervosa. Carpenter’s death brings widespread attention to anorexia and bulimia, then little-known eating disorders.

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