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January 4 is the
4th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar . 361 days (362 in
leap years ) remain in the year after this day.
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 Notes 6 External links
Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina .
871 - Battle of Reading : Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World , ending his first journey.
1642 - English Civil War : King Charles I of England attacks Parliament .
1698 - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London , the main residence of the English monarchs , is destroyed by fire.
1717 - The Netherlands , England , and France sign the Triple Alliance .
1762 - England declares war on Spain and Naples .
1847 - Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1854 - The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang .
1865 - The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City .
1884 - The Fabian Society is founded in London .
1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
1896 - Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state .
1912 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter .
1936 - Mickey's Polo Team animated film featuring Charlie Chaplin , Oliver Hardy , Stan Laurel , and Harpo Marx in a polo match against various Disney characters , is first released.
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts.
1941 - The animated short Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released: it marks the second appearance of Bugs Bunny and the first to have his name on a title card.
1944 - World War II : The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
1948 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom .
1951 - Korean War : Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul .
1957 - After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly 1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 , 1957 ).
1959 - Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon .
1962 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1965 - United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society " during his State of the Union address .
1970 - The Beatles record as a band for the last time.
1972 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London .
1974 - United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1974 - An Irving Oil gas station explodes in Saint John, New Brunswick , Canada , killing six.
1975 - Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint.
1987 - An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, DC , collides with Conrail engines, killing 16 people (Chase, Maryland rail wreck ).
1989 - Second Gulf of Sidra incident : a pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
1990 - A crowded passenger train collides with a standing freight train in Pakistan 's Sindh province, killing 300 people.
1998 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria ; over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota .
1999 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2004 - Dr. Mikhail Saakashvili is elected the President of Georgia .
2004 - Spirit , a NASA Mars Rover , lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2004 - Leicester City footballers Paul Dickov , Keith Gillespie , and Frank Sinclair are arrested in Spain over sexual assault allegations. The charges were later dropped.
2006 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert .
2006 - Many American media outlets erroneously report that 12 miners have been found alive in the Sago Mine Disaster .
2007 - The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
Births 1077 - Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty in China (d. 1100 )
1334 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (d. 1383 )
1581 - James Ussher , Irish Anglican archbishop (d. 1656 )
1643 - Sir Isaac Newton , English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727 )
1664 - Lars Roberg , Swedish physician (d. 1742 )
1672 - Hugh Boulter , Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742 )
1710 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Italian composer (d. 1736 )
1720 - Johann Friedrich Agricola , German composer (d. 1774 )
1785 - Jakob Grimm , German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863 )
1809 - Louis Braille , French inventor of braille[1] (d. 1852 )
1813 - Isaac Pitman , British inventor (Pitman shorthand ) (d. 1897 )
1832 - George Tryon , British admiral (d. 1893 )
1838 - Charles Sherwood Stratton , American circus performer (d. 1883 )
1839 - Carl Humann , German engineer (d. 1896 )
1848 - Katsura Taro , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913 )
1869 - Tommy Corcoran , baseball player (d. 1960 )
1874 - Josef Suk , Czech composer (d. 1935 )
1881 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck , German sculptor (d. 1919 )
1882 - Aristarkh Lentulov , Russian artist (d. 1943 )
1883 - Max Eastman , American writer (d. 1969 )
1894 - Manuel de Abreu , Brazilian physician (d. 1962 )
1896 - Everett Dirksen , American politician (d. 1969 )
1896 - André Masson , French artist (d. 1987 )
1900 - James Bond , American ornithologist (d. 1989 )
1901 - C. L. R. James , writer and journalist (d. 1989 )
1905 - Sterling Holloway , American actor (d. 1992 )
1913 - Malietoa Tanumafili II , Sovereign Ruler of Samoa
1914 - Herman Franks , baseball player
1916 - Lionel Newman , American film music composer (d. 1989 )
1920 - William Colby , American CIA director (d. 1996 )
1924 - Sebastian Kappen , Indian theologian (d. 1993 )
1925 - Veikko Hakulinen , Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003 )
1927 - Paul Desmarais , Canadian businessman
1927 - Barbara Rush , American actress
1929 - Yayoi Kusama , Japanese artist, sculptor
1930 - Sorrell Booke , American actor (d. 1994 )
1930 - Don Shula , American football coach
1931 - Adi Lady Lala Mara , First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004 )
1932 - Carlos Saura , Spanish director
1933 - Ilia II Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.
1934 - Rudolf Schuster , Slovakian president
1935 - Floyd Patterson , American boxer (d. 2006 )
1937 - Grace Bumbry , American singer
1937 - Dyan Cannon , American actress
1940 - Helmut Jahn , German architect
1940 - Brian David Josephson , Nobel laureate
1940 - Gao Xingjian , Nobel laureate
1941 - John Bennett Perry , American actor
1941 - George Pan Cosmatos , Greek film director (d. 2005 )
1941 - Maureen Reagan , American political activist (d. 2001 )
1942 - John McLaughlin , English jazz guitarist
1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin , American writer
1945 - Richard R. Schrock , Nobel laureate
1945 - Vesa-Matti Loiri , Finnish entertainer
1946 - Arthur Conley , American singer (d. 2003 )
1948 - Eugeniusz Wycisło , Polish politician
1950 - John Louis Evans , convicted murderer (d. 1983 )
1951 - Barbara Cochran , American alpine skier
1953 - Norberto Alonso , Argentine footballer
1953 - George Tenet , American CIA director
1956 - Bernard Sumner , English musician (New Order )
1957 - Patty Loveless , American singer
1958 - Matt Frewer , American actor
1958 - Gary Jones , Welsh-born actor
1958 - Julian Sands , British actor
1959 - Yoshitomo Nara , Japanese pop artist
1960 - Michael Stipe , American singer (R.E.M. )
1961 - Lee Curreri , American actor
1962 - Peter Steele , American musician (Type O Negative )
1962 - Robin Guthrie , Scottish guitarist
1962 - Laila Eloui , Egyptian actress
1963 - Dave Foley , Canadian comedian and actor
1963 - Till Lindemann , German singer (Rammstein )
1965 - Beth Gibbons , English singer (Portishead )
1965 - Julia Ormond , English actress
1965 - Yvan Attal , French actor and director
1966 - Deana Carter , American singer
1967 - Marina Orsini , Quebec actress
1971 - Junichi Kakizaki , Japanese artist, sculptor
1973 - Frank Høj , Danish cyclist
1974 - Ian Moor , English singer
1976 - Ted Lilly , American baseball player
1977 - Tim Wheeler , Irish singer (Ash )
1977 - Irán Castillo , Mexican actress
1978 - Dwight Freeney , American football player
1978 - Dominik Hrbatý , Slovakian tennis player
1978 - Mai Meneses , Spanish singer
1979 - Jeph Howard , American musician (The Used )
1979 - Tristan Gommendy , French racing driver
1980 - Miguel Monteiro , Portuguese footballer
1982 - Richard Logan , English footballer
1982 - Kang Hye-jeong , South Korean actress
1983 - Spencer Chamberlain , American vocalist (Underoath )
1985 - Fernando Rees , Brazilian race car driver
1991 - Olivia Tennet , New Zealand actress
1995 - María Isabel , Spanish singer
Deaths 1066 - Edward the Confessor , pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004 ) (disputed)
1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207 )
1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna , Japanese military commander (b. 1514 )
1584 - Tobias Stimmer , Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539 )
1695 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg , French general (b. 1628 )
1752 - Gabriel Cramer , Swiss mathematician (b. 1704 )
1761 - Stephen Hales , English physiologist (b. 1677 )
1773 - Anton Losenko , Russian painter (b. 1737 )
1782 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel , French architect (b. 1698 )
1804 - Charlotte Lennox , English author and poet (bc. 1730 )
1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton , American saint (b. 1774 )
1825 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751 )
1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt , American entrepreneur (b. 1794 )
1883 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy , French general (b. 1823 )
1891 - Antoine Labelle , Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833 )
1896 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens , German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821 )
1903 - Gulstan Ropert , Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839 )
1919 - Georg von Hertling , Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843 )
1931 - Art Acord , American actor (b. 1890 )
1941 - Henri Bergson , French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859 )
1960 - Albert Camus , Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913 )
1961 - Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887 )
1962 - Hans Lammers , German SS officer (b. 1879 )
1965 - T. S. Eliot , American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888 )
1967 - Donald Campbell , British motorboat racer (b. 1921 )
1970 - Jean-Étienne Valluy , French general (b. 1899 )
1971 - Arthur Ford , American clairaudient (b. 1896 )
1981 - Ruth Lowe , Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again ) (b. 1914 )
1985 - Brian Horrocks , British general (b. 1895 )
1986 - Christopher Isherwood , English writer (b. 1904 )
1986 - Phil Lynott , Irish musician (Thin Lizzy ) (b. 1949 )
1990 - Doc Edgerton , American electrical engineer (b. 1903 )
1994 - RD Burman , Indian musician (b. 1939 )
1995 - Sol Tax , American anthropologist (b. 1907 )
1995 - Eduardo Mata , Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942 )
1998 - Mae Questel , American actress (b. 1908 )
1999 - Iron Eyes Cody , American actor (b. 1904 )
2003 - Conrad Hall , American cinematographer (b. 1927 )
2003 - Yfrah Neaman , Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923 )
2003 - Sabine Ulibarri , Mexican American writer (b. 1919 )
2004 - Joan Aiken , English author (b. 1924 )
2004 - Brian Gibson , English film director (b. 1944 )
2004 - Jake Hess , American singer (b. 1927 )
2004 - Jeff Nuttall , English writer (b. 1933 )
2004 - John Toland , American historian (b. 1912 )
2005 - Humphrey Carpenter , English author (b. 1946 )
2005 - Ali al-Haidri , Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
2005 - Frank Harary , American mathematician (b. 1921 )
2005 - Robert Heilbroner , American economist (b. 1919 )
2005 - Bud Poile , Canadian hockey player (b. 1924 )
2005 - Alton Tobey , American artist (b. 1914 )
2005 - Guy Davenport , American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927 )
2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum , Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946 )
2006 - Irving Layton , Canadian poet (b. 1912 )
2007 - Marais Viljoen , former State President of South Africa (b. 1915 )
2007 - Osman Waqialla , Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925 )
2007 - Jan Schröder , Dutch cyclist (b. 1941 )
2007 - Sandro Salvadore , Italian footballer (b. 1939 )
2007 - Gáspár Nagy , Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949 )
2007 - Steve Krantz , American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat ) (b. 1923 )
2007 - Grenfell (Gren) Jones , Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934 )
2007 - Sir Lewis Hodges , British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918 )
2007 - Helen Hill , American independent film-maker (b. 1970 )
2007 - Ben Gannon , Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952 )
Holidays and observances Notes ^ To prevent confusion the proper noun "Braille" is written in lower case ("braille") when referring to the writing system.
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