​Add these to the This Week in History section of your composition book:

• Feb. 4, 1789 – George Washington is elected to serve as the first U.S. president by a unanimous vote in the first electoral college

• Feb. 4, 1932 – The United States hosts its first Winter Olympic Games, in Lake Placid, New York

• Feb. 4, 2004 – The website Facebook is launched

• Feb. 5, 146 BC – The Third Punic War comes to an end, culminating in the final destruction of Carthage by Rome

• Feb. 5, 2003 – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell appears before the United Nations Security Council to present evidence that Iraq possess weapons of mass destruction