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Facebook launch anniversary

Meta states that Facebook launched in 2004; Harvard contemporaneous-history reporting identifies February 4, 2004 as the launch date of TheFacebook.

Date / rule4 February 2004
ScopeFacebook / historical product launch anniversary
VerificationCompany Plus Primary Community History Verified
PortabilityHistorical Legacy
Evidence statusSource-backed
Last authority check2026-09-09
Target-year policyHistorical Only
Next occurrenceNot projected automatically

This record requires a current target-year source or is intentionally historical.

Authority summary

What is Facebook launch anniversary?

Meta states that Facebook launched in 2004; Harvard contemporaneous-history reporting identifies February 4, 2004 as the launch date of TheFacebook.

Date and recurrence

4 February 2004

This is retained as historical or legacy evidence. The site does not assume that the observance still recurs today.

Scope and status

The verified scope stored for this record is Facebook / historical product launch anniversary. The site preserves that boundary and does not infer broader government, global or public-holiday status from the observance name alone.

Also known as

Facebook’s Birthday

Classification

Topic and context

Civic, Remembrance & History →
Accuracy controls

What this page does not assume

  • Keep the source-defined country, community, organizer or institutional scope; do not silently broaden it.
  • Do not treat the title alone as proof of government recognition or public-holiday status.
  • Do not add a creator, founding story or origin claim unless the supporting evidence establishes it.
  • Refresh the target year before publishing a new date when the record is not safely portable.
  • Historical Context Only.
  • Remembrance Civic Context Care.
Provenance

Sources

Source policy →
  1. Meta — Company historyCompany First Party
  2. Harvard Crimson — Facebook first users look backUniversity Newspaper History
Reader questions

Frequently asked questions

When is Facebook launch anniversary?

4 February 2004 The stored recurrence guidance is: Historical anchor: 4 February 2004. Anniversary age may be calculated from the anchor; do not call it an official holiday without separate evidence..

Does Facebook launch anniversary fall on the same date every year?

The record is historical/legacy and is not treated as a currently recurring annual date.

Is Facebook launch anniversary an official public holiday?

The authority record verifies it within this scope: Facebook / historical product launch anniversary. That recognition does not by itself make it a statutory public holiday; the site only makes public-holiday claims when the supporting authority record explicitly does so.

Who established or recognizes Facebook launch anniversary?

The stored designation basis is: Meta states that Facebook launched in 2004; Harvard contemporaneous-history reporting identifies February 4, 2004 as the launch date of TheFacebook.. Supporting provenance includes Meta — Company history. The site does not infer a separate creator or founder unless reviewed evidence establishes one.

Is Facebook launch anniversary international or country-specific?

No single country is assigned to this record in the authority dataset. The source-defined scope is: Facebook / historical product launch anniversary. Use that scope rather than assuming worldwide or country-specific status.

How is this page verified?

The factual layer is source-backed and keeps its date rule, scope, provenance and editorial guardrails attached to the authority record. This record was checked on 2026-09-09.

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