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January 4 in recent years

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2007 (Thursday)

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January 4 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" in leap years).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links

[edit] 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.
1490 - Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey.
1642 - King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
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.
1878 - Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
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.
1903 - Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
1912 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
1936 - Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts.
1944 - World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
1948 - Burma regains 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 magazine is published.
1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (it was 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.
1972 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first female 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.
1975 - Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint.
1987 - The Chase, Maryland rail wreck: An Amtrak train en route to Boston, Massachusetts from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
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 - Unrest takes over the southern provinces of Thailand.
2006 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 - The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2008 - Jason Luna becomes the first American contestant to win the $1,000,00(U.S) top prize during a "Battle of The Sexes" episode of 1 vs 100

[edit] 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, English 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, American baseball player (d. 1960)
1870 - Percy Pitt, English organist and conductor (d. 1932)
1874 - Josef Suk, Czech composer (d. 1935)
1878 - Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961)
1881 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (d. 1919)
1882 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1943)
1883 - Max Eastman, American writer (d. 1969)
1891 - Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
1893 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds Oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007)
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)
1902 - John McCone, CIA Director (d. 1991)
1905 - Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992)
1910 - Arthur Villeneuve, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1913 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (d.2007)
1914 - Herman Franks, American baseball player
1916 - Lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989)
1916 - Robert Parrish, U.S. film editor and director (d. 1995)
1920 - William Colby, American CIA director (d. 1996)
1922 - Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (d. 1997)
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)
1931 - Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001
1932 - Carlos Saura, Spanish director
1933 - Ilia II Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.
1934 - Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
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, Welsh physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
1941 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (d. 2005)
1941 - John Bennett Perry, American actor
1941 - Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)
1942 - John McLaughlin, English jazz guitarist
1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
1945 - Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer
1945 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1946 - Arthur Conley, American singer (d. 2003)
1946 - Susannah McCorkle, American jazz singer (d. 2001)
1947 - Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1947 - Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
1948 - Eugeniusz Wycisło, Polish politician
1950 - John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (d. 1983)
1951 - Barbara Cochran, American alpine skier
1953 - Norberto Alonso, Argentine footballer
1954 - Eugene Chadbourne, American composer and musician
1955 - Mark Hollis, English musician and composer (Talk Talk)
1956 - Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
1956 - Bernard Sumner, English musician (Joy Division, New Order, Electronic)
1957 - Patty Loveless, American singer
1958 - Andy Borowitz, American comedian and satirist
1958 - Matt Frewer, American actor
1958 - Gary Jones, Welsh-born actor
1958 - Julian Sands, English actor
1959 - Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese pop artist
1960 - Michael Stipe, American singer (R.E.M.)
1960 - April Winchell, American actress
1961 - Lee Curreri, American actor
1962 - Laila Eloui, Egyptian actress
1962 - Robin Guthrie, Scottish guitarist (Cocteau Twins)
1962 - Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)
1963 - Dave Foley, Canadian comedian and actor
1963 - Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
1965 - Yvan Attal, French actor and director
1965 - Guy Forget, French tennis player
1965 - Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
1965 - Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues)
1965 - Julia Ormond, English actress
1966 - Deana Carter, American singer
1967 - David Berman, American poet and singer/songwriter (Silver Jews)
1967 - Johnny Nelson, English boxer
1967 - Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
1967 - David Toms, American professional golfer
1970 - Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler
1971 - Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese artist, sculptor
1972 - James Longley, American documentary filmmaker
1973 - Harmony Korine, American film director and artist
1973 - Frank Høj, Danish cyclist
1974 - Ian Moor, English singer
1976 - Benoît Joachim, Luxembourg cyclist
1976 - Ted Lilly, American baseball player
1977 - Irán Castillo, Mexican actress
1977 - Tim Wheeler, Irish singer (Ash)
1978 - Dominik Hrbatý, Slovakian tennis player
1978 - Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
1979 - Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
1979 - Jeph Howard, American musician (The Used)
1980 - Greg Cipes, American actor
1980 - Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer
1982 - Paulo Ferrari, Argentinian footballer
1982 - Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
1982 - Richard Logan, English footballer
1983 - Spencer Chamberlain, American singer (Underoath)
1985 - Al Jefferson, American basketball player
1985 - Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
1986 - James Milner, English footballer
1986 - Steve Slaton , American football Player
1988 - Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer
1991 - Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
1995 - María Isabel, Spanish singer
2000 - Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress

[edit] Deaths

1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
1428 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 'The Warlike' (b. 1370)
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)
1863 - Roger Hanson, Confederate general (b.1827)
1874 - Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
1882 - John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
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)
1920 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
1924 - Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
1931 - Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890)
1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1944 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor (b. 1898)
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, English motorboat racer (b. 1921)
1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
1970 - Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
1971 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1975 - Carlo Levi, Italian anti-fascist painter, writer and activist (b. 1902)
1981 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (b. 1914)
1985 - Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
1985 - Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
1986 - Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
1986 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
1988 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
1990 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
1990 - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
1994 - RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
1995 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
1995 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
1996 - Ramón Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (b. 1911)
1997 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
1998 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
1998 - John Gary, U.S. popular singer (b. 1932)
1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
2001 - Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912)
2003 - Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
2003 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
2003 - Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919)
2004 - John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
2004 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
2004 - Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
2004 - Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
2004 - Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
2005 - Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2005 - Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
2005 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
2005 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
2005 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
2005 - Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
2005 - Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
2006 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
2006 - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
2007 - Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
2007 - Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
2007 - Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
2007 - Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
2007 - Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
2007 - Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2007 - Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
2007 - Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
2007 - Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)
2007 - Helen Hill, American independent film-maker (b. 1970)

[edit] Holidays and observances

National Day of Burma
Feast day of St Elizabeth Ann Seton^[2]
The eleventh night and tenth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

[edit] Notes

^ To prevent confusion the proper noun "Braille" is written in lower case ("braille") when referring to the writing system.
^ Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.