Historical Events on January 4, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on January 4th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Hennenman–Kroonstad train crash: A passenger train operated by Shosholoza Meyl collides with a truck on a level crossing at Geneva Station between Hennenman and Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. Twenty people are killed and 260 injured. |
| 2013 | A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines. |
| 2010 | The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai. |
| 2008 | A Let L-410 Turbolet crashes in the Los Roques Archipelago in Venezuela, killing 14 people. |
| 2007 | The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history. |
| 2006 | Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. |
| 2004 | Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC. |
| 2004 | Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution. |
| 2000 | A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides with a local train coming from Hamar in Åsta, Åmot; 19 people are killed and 68 injured in the accident. |
| 1999 | Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States. |
| 1998 | A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction. |
| 1990 | In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries. |
| 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. |
| 1987 | The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. |
| 1976 | The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation. |
| 1975 | This date overflowed the 12-bit field that had been used in TOPS-10. There were numerous problems and crashes related to this bug while an alternative format was developed. |
| 1972 | Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK. |
| 1959 | Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon. |
| 1958 | Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit. |
| 1956 | The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis. |
| 1951 | Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time. |
| 1948 | Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic. |
| 1944 | World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins. |
| 1918 | The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France. |
| 1912 | The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter. |
| 1909 | Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. |
| 1903 | Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death. |
| 1896 | Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. |
| 1885 | Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam. |
| 1884 | The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom. |
| 1878 | Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule. |
| 1863 | The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany. |
| 1854 | The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. |
| 1853 | After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller. |
| 1798 | Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1762 | Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War. |
| 1717 | The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance. |
| 1649 | English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. |
| 1642 | English Civil War: King Charles I, accompanied by 400 soldiers, attempts to arrest five members of Parliament for treason, only to discover the men had been tipped off and fled. |
| 871 | Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. |
| 46 | Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. |
Famous People Born on January 4
Here is a random list who born on January 4. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Paul Watson, English footballer and physiotherapist |
| 1967 | David Wilson, Australian rugby player |
| 1881 | Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (d. 1919) |
| 1979 | Shergo Biran, German footballer |
| 1813 | Isaac Pitman, English linguist and educator (d. 1897) |
| 1932 | Carlos Saura, Spanish director and screenwriter |
| 1967 | David Toms, American golfer and philanthropist |
| 1954 | Rob Kerin, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of South Australia |
| 1942 | Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigerian political scientist, academic, and politician |
| 1975 | Shane Carwin, American mixed martial artist and wrestler |
Famous People Deaths On January 4
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on January 4. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (b. 1931) |
| 2010 | Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910) |
| 2005 | Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1924) |
| 2007 | Helen Hill, American director and producer (b. 1970) |
| 1997 | Harry Helmsley, American businessman (b. 1909) |
| 1344 | Robert de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle, English peer (b. 1288) |
| 2019 | Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927) |
| 1248 | Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1209) |
| 1986 | Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (b. 1904) |
| 871 | Æthelwulf, Saxon ealdorman |
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