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Events
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46 BC -Titus Labienus defeatsJulius Caesar in theBattle 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 ofFrance will be considered guilty of the crime oflese-majesty .
*1493 -Christopher Columbus leaves theNew World , ending his first journey.
*1642 - KingCharles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
*1698 - Most of thePalace of Whitehall inLondon , the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.
*1717 - TheNetherlands ,England , and France sign the Triple Alliance.
*1762 - England declares war onSpain andNaples .
*1847 -Samuel Colt sells his firstrevolver pistol to theUnited States government.
*1854 - The McDonald Islands are discovered by CaptainWilliam McDonald aboard the "Samarang".
*1865 - TheNew York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad nearWall Street inNew York City .
*1878 -Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
*1884 - TheFabian Society is founded in London.
*1885 - The first successfulappendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
*1896 -Utah is admitted as the 45thU.S. state .
*1903 - Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted byThomas Edison during theWar of Currents campaign.
*1912 -The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth byRoyal Charter .
*1944 - World War II:Operation Carpetbagger , involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters inEurope , begins.
* 1944 - World War II: TheBattle of Monte Cassino begins.
*1948 -Burma regains its independence from theUnited Kingdom .
*1951 -Korean War : Chinese andNorth Korea n forces captureSeoul .
*1958 -Sputnik 1 falls toEarth from its orbit (it was launched onOctober 4 ,1957 ).
*1959 -Luna 1 becomes the firstspacecraft to reach the vicinity of theMoon .
*1962 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
*1965 - United States PresidentLyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society " during hisState of the Union address .
*1972 -Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at theOld Bailey in London.
*1974 - United States PresidentRichard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
*1975 -Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint.
*1987 - TheChase, Maryland rail wreck : AnAmtrak train en route toBoston, Massachusetts fromWashington, D.C. , collides withConrail engines inChase, Maryland , killing 16 people.
*1989 - Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair ofUS Navy F-14 Tomcat s during an air-to-air confrontation.
*1998 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres inAlgeria : over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
* 1998 - A massive ice storm hits easternCanada and the northeasternUnited States , continuing throughJanuary 10 and causing widespread destruction.
*1999 - Former professional wrestlerJesse Ventura is sworn in as governor ofMinnesota .
* 1999 - Gunmen open fire onShiite Muslims worshipping in anIslamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
*2004 - Spirit, aNASA Mars Rover , lands successfully on Mars at 04:35UTC .
*2006 -Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ofIsrael suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime MinisterEhud Olmert .
*2007 - The110th United States Congress convenes, electingNancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.Births
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1077 -Emperor Zhezong ofSong Dynasty inChina (d.1100 )
*1334 -Amadeus VI of Savoy (d.1383 )
*1581 -James Ussher , IrishAnglican 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 ofArmagh (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 teacher of the blind and inventor ofbraille (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 )
*1842 -Frederic T. Greenhalge , 38thGovernor of Massachusetts (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 worldsOldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13,2007 )
*1894 -Manuel de Abreu , Brazilian physician (d.1962 )
*1895 -Leroy Grumman , American industrialist (d.1982 )
*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 )
*1910 -Arthur Villeneuve , Quebec painter (d.1990 )
*1913 -Malietoa Tanumafili II , Sovereign Ruler ofSamoa (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 , AmericanCIA 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 ofFiji (d.2004 )
* 1931 - SirWilliam 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 -Maureen Reagan , American political activist (d.2001 )
* 1941 -George Pan Cosmatos , Greek film director (d.2005 )
* 1941 -John Bennett Perry , American actor
*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 -Susannah McCorkle , American jazz singer (d.2001 )
* 1946 -Arthur Conley , American singer (d.2003 )
*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
*1968 -Mike Wilpolt , Head Coach of theCleveland Gladiators of theArena Football League
*1970 -Chris Kanyon , American professional wrestler
*1971 -Junichi Kakizaki , Japanese artist, sculptor
*1972 - James Longley, American documentary filmmaker
*1973 -Frank Høj , Danish cyclist
* 1973 -Harmony Korine , American film director and artist
*1974 -Ian Moor , English singer
*1976 -Benoît Joachim , Luxembourg cyclist
* 1976 -Ted Lilly , American baseball player
*1977 -Irán Castillo , Mexican actress
* 1977 -Dan Shanahan , Irish hurler
* 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 -Yaroslav Popovych , Ukrainian cyclist
* 1980 -Erin Cahill , American actress
* 1980 -Miguel Monteiro , Portuguese footballer
*1982 -Paulo Ferrari , Argentinian footballer
* 1982 -Kang Hye-jeong , South Korean actress
* 1982 - Richard Logan, English footballer
*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
*1989 -Graham Rahal , American race car driver
*1990 -Toni Kroos , German footballer
*1991 -Olivia Tennet , New Zealand actress
*1995 -María Isabel , Spanish singer
* 1995 -Harry Skinner , English skiier
*2000 -Rhiannon Leigh Wryn , American actressDeaths
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1248 - KingSancho 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 - KingFerdinand 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 )
*1903 - Topsy the elephant (b. circa1875 )
*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 , GermanSS 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 - SirHenry Bolte , Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b.1908 )
*1993 -Charles Bridgford , Australian politician
*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 -Sabine Ulibarri , Mexican American writer (b.1919 )
* 2003 -Yfrah Neaman , Lebanese-born violinist (b.1923 )
* 2003 -Conrad Hall , American cinematographer (b.1927 )
*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 -Alton Tobey , American artist (b.1914 )
* 2005 -Robert Heilbroner , American economist (b.1919 )
* 2005 -Frank Harary , American mathematician (b.1921 )
* 2005 -Bud Poile , Canadian ice hockey player (b.1924 )
* 2005 -Guy Davenport , American author, artist, and scholar (b.1927 )
* 2005 -Humphrey Carpenter , English author (b.1946 )
* 2005 -Ali al-Haidri , Iraqi governor ofBaghdad (assassinated)
*2006 -Irving Layton , Canadian poet (b.1912 )
* 2006 -Robert Howard White , Mayor ofPapatoetoe ,New Zealand (b.1914 )
* 2006 -Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum , Prime Minister of theUnited Arab Emirates and Ruler ofDubai (b.1946 )
*2007 -Marais Viljoen , former State President ofSouth Africa (b.1915 )
* 2007 - SirLewis 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 )
*2008 -Joyce Carlson , American artist (b.1923 )
* 2008 -Xavier Chamorro Cardenal , Nicaraguan print editor (b.1932 )
* 2008 -Jimmy Nah ,Singapore celebrity (b.1968 )Holidays and observances
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National Day ofBurma
*Feast day of St Elizabeth Ann Seton
*The eleventh night and tenth day of Christmas in WesternChristianity
*Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
*January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/4 BBC: On This Day]
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