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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 4 is the fourth day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
361 days remain until the end of the year (362 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths ·
5Notes Events[edit]
·
46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.[1] ·
871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and
his brother Alfred are
defeated by a Danish invasion army.[2] ·
1649 – English Civil
War: The Rump Parliament votes
to put Charles I on trial.[3] ·
1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain,
and France sign the Triple Alliance[4] in an attempt to maintain
the Treaty of Utrecht;
Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28
(November 17, 1716). ·
1762 – Great Britain
declares war on Spain, thus entering
the Seven Years' War.[5] ·
1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives
in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince,
invested by the Ottoman Empire.[6] ·
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.[7] ·
1854 – The McDonald
Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard
the Samarang.[8] ·
1863 – The New Apostolic Church,
a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.[9] ·
1878 – Russo-Turkish
War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule[10] and designated the
capital of Liberated Bulgaria. ·
1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in London,
United Kingdom.[11] ·
1885 – Sino-French War: French troops under
General Oscar de Négrier defeat a
numerically superior Qing force
at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.[12] ·
1896 – Utah is
admitted as the 45th U.S. state.[13] ·
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.[14] ·
1912 – The Scout
Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.[15] ·
1918 – The Finnish
Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden,
Germany and France.[16] ·
1944 – World War II: Operation
Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to
resistance fighters in Europe, begins.[17] ·
1948 – Burma gains its independence from the
United Kingdom becoming an independent republic,[18] named the Union of
Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President
and U Nu its first Prime Minister. ·
1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.[19] ·
1956 – The Greek National Radical
Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.[20] ·
1958 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth
satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.[21] ·
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of
the Moon.[22] ·
1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female
judge to sit at the Old Bailey in
London, UK.[23] ·
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.[24] ·
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.[25] ·
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.[26] ·
1990 – In Pakistan's
deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an
empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.[27] ·
1998 – A
massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern
United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread
destruction.[28] ·
1999 – Former
professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor
of Minnesota, United States.[29] ·
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at
04:35 UTC.[30] ·
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following
the November 2003 Rose Revolution.[31] ·
2006 – Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister
of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently
more serious stroke.[32] ·
2007 – The 110th United
States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.[33] ·
2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building
in the world, officially opens in Dubai.[34] ·
2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house
rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.[35] ·
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.[36] Births[edit]
·
659 – Ali ibn
Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (d.680)[37][38] ·
1077 – Emperor Zhezong of China (d. 1100)[39] ·
1334 – Amadeus VI,
Count of Savoy (d. 1383)[40] ·
1467 – Bodo
VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (d. 1538)[41] ·
1581 – James Ussher, Irish archbishop and historian
(d. 1656)[42] ·
1643 – Isaac Newton, English mathematician and
physicist (d. 1727)[43] ·
1654 – Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic
(d. 1742)[44] ·
1672 – Hugh Boulter, English-Irish archbishop (d.
1742)[45] ·
1710 – Giovanni
Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, violinist, and organist (d.
1736)[46] ·
1720 – Johann
Friedrich Agricola, German organist and composer (d. 1774)[47] ·
1785 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist and
mythologist (d. 1863)[48] ·
1809 – Louis Braille, French educator,
invented Braille (d. 1852)[49] ·
1813 – Isaac Pitman, English linguist and educator
(d. 1897)[50] ·
1832 – George Tryon, English admiral (d. 1893)[51] ·
1838 – General Tom Thumb,
American circus performer (d. 1883)[52] ·
1839 – Carl Humann, German archaeologist,
architect, and engineer (d. 1896)[53] ·
1848 – Katsura Tarō, Japanese general and
politician, 6th Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1913)[54] ·
1858 – Carter Glass, American publisher and
politician, 47th United
States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1946)[55] ·
1864 – Clara Emilia Smitt,
Swedish doctor and author (d. 1928)[56] ·
1869 – Tommy Corcoran,
American baseball player and umpire (d. 1960)[57] ·
1874 – Josef Suk,
Czech violinist and composer (d. 1935)[58] ·
1877 – Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet
(d. 1943)[59] ·
1878 – A. E. Coppard, English poet and short story
writer (d. 1957)[60] ·
1878 – Augustus John, Welsh painter and illustrator
(d. 1961)[61] ·
1881 – Wilhelm Lehmbruck,
German sculptor (d. 1919)[62] ·
1883 – Max Eastman, American author and poet (d.
1969)[63] ·
1883 – Johanna Westerdijk,
Dutch pathologist and academic (d. 1961)[64] ·
1884 – Guy Pène du Bois,
American painter, critic, and educator (d. 1958)[65] ·
1889 – M. Patanjali Sastri,
Indian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of
India (d. 1963)[66] ·
1891 – Edward Brooker, English-Australian sergeant
and politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (d.
1948)[67] ·
1895 – Leroy Grumman, American engineer and
businessman, co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering
Co. (d. 1982)[68] ·
1896 – Everett Dirksen, American politician (d.
1969)[69] ·
1896 – André Masson, French painter and illustrator
(d. 1987)[70] ·
1897 – Chen Cheng, Chinese politician, Vice
President of the Republic of China (d. 1965)[71] ·
1900 – James Bond,
American ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1989)[72] ·
1901 – C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and
theorist (d. 1989)[73] ·
1902 – John A. McCone, American businessman and
politician, 6th Director
of Central Intelligence (d. 1991)[74] ·
1905 – Sterling Holloway,
American actor (d. 1992)[75] ·
1913 – Malietoa Tanumafili
II, Samoan ruler (d. 2007)[76] ·
1916 – Lionel Newman, American pianist and composer
(d. 1989)[77] ·
1916 – Robert Parrish, American actor and director
(d. 1995)[78] ·
1920 – William Colby, American intelligence
officer, 10th Director
of Central Intelligence (d. 1996)[79] ·
1924 – Marianne Werner, German shot putter[80] ·
1925 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and
technician (d. 2003)[81] ·
1927 – Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2013)[82] ·
1927 – Barbara Rush, American actress[83] ·
1929 – Günter Schabowski,
German journalist and politician (d. 2015)[84] ·
1930 – Sorrell Booke, American actor and director
(d. 1994)[85] ·
1930 – Don Shula, American football player and
coach (d. 2020)[86] ·
1931 – William Deane, Australian judge and
politician, 22nd Governor-General
of Australia[87] ·
1931 – Nora Iuga, Romanian poet, writer and
translator[88] ·
1931 – Coşkun
Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach (d. 2011) ·
1932 – Clint Hill,
American secret service agent and author ·
1932 – Carlos Saura, Spanish director and
screenwriter[89] ·
1934 – Rudolf Schuster, Slovak politician,
2nd President of
Slovakia[90] ·
1935 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)[91] ·
1937 – Grace Bumbry, American operatic soprano[92] ·
1937 – Dyan Cannon, American actress, director,
producer, and screenwriter[93] ·
1940 – Gao Xingjian, Chinese novelist, playwright,
and critic, Nobel Prize laureate[94] ·
1940 – Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate[95] ·
1941 – George P. Cosmatos,
Italian-Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2005)[96] ·
1941 – Kalpnath Rai, Indian politician (d. 1999)[97] ·
1942 – Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigerian political
scientist, academic, and politician[98] ·
1942 – John
McLaughlin, English guitarist and songwriter[99] ·
1943 – Doris Kearns Goodwin,
American historian and author[100] ·
1943 – Hwang Sok-yong, South Korean author and
educator[101] ·
1945 – Richard R. Schrock,
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[102] ·
1946 – Arthur Conley, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2003)[103] ·
1947 – Marie-Thérèse
Letablier, French sociologist and academic[104] ·
1948 – Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer (d. 1992)[105] ·
1948 – Cissé Mariam
Kaïdama Sidibé, Malian civil servant and politician, Prime Minister of
Mali ·
1950 – Khondakar Ashraf
Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (d. 2013)[106] ·
1953 – Norberto Alonso, Argentinian footballer[107] ·
1954 – Tina Knowles, American fashion designer,
founded House of Deréon[108] ·
1956 – Ann Magnuson, American actress and performance
artist [109] ·
1956 – Zehava Gal-On, Israeli politician[110] ·
1956 – Bernard Sumner, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer[111] ·
1957 – Patty Loveless, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist[112] ·
1958 – Matt Frewer, American-Canadian actor[113] ·
1960 – Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter
and producer[114] ·
1963 – Dave Foley, Canadian comedian, actor,
director, and producer[115] ·
1963 – Martina Proeber, German diver[116] ·
1964 – Susan Devoy, New Zealand squash player[117] ·
1965 – Guy Forget, French tennis player[118] ·
1965 – Craig Revel Horwood,
Australian-English dancer, choreographer, and director[119] ·
1965 – Julia Ormond, English actress and producer[120] ·
1966 – Deana Carter, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist[121] ·
1967 – David Toms, American golfer and
philanthropist[122] ·
1975 – Paul
Watson, English footballer and physiotherapist[123] ·
1978 – Dominik Hrbatý,
Slovak tennis player[124] ·
1980 – Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer[125] ·
1985 – Kari Aalvik Grimsbø,
Norwegian handball player[126] ·
1985 – Gökhan Gönül,
Turkish footballer[127] ·
1985 – Al Jefferson, American basketball player[128] ·
1986 – James Milner, English footballer[129] ·
1986 – Younès Kaboul, French footballer[130] ·
1989 – Graham Rahal, American race car driver[131] ·
1990 – Toni Kroos, German footballer[132] ·
1992 – Kris Bryant, American baseball player[133] ·
1994 – Derrick Henry, American football player[134] ·
1997 – Ante Žižić,
Croatian basketball player[135] ·
1998 – Liza Soberano, Filipina actress[136] Deaths[edit]
·
871 – Æthelwulf,
Saxon ealdorman[137] ·
874 – Hasan al-Askari, eleventh of the Twelve Imams (probable;[138] b. 846) ·
1248 – Sancho II of
Portugal (b. 1209)[139] ·
1344 – Robert
de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle, English peer (b. 1288)[140] ·
1399 – Nicholas Eymerich,
Catalan theologian and inquisitor[141] ·
1424 – Muzio Sforza, Italian condottiero[142] ·
1428 – Frederick
I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1370)[143] ·
1584 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and
illustrator (b. 1539)[144] ·
1604 – Ferenc Nádasdy,
Hungarian noble (b. 1555)[145] ·
1695 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg,
French general (b. 1628)[146] ·
1752 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and
physicist (b. 1704)[147] ·
1761 – Stephen Hales, English clergyman and
physiologist (b. 1677)[148] ·
1782 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel,
French architect, designed École Militaire (b.
1698)[149] ·
1786 – Moses Mendelssohn,
German philosopher and theologian (b. 1729)[150] ·
1804 – Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet
(b. 1730)[151] ·
1821 – Elizabeth Ann Seton,
American nun and saint (b. 1774)[152] ·
1825 – Ferdinand
I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)[153] ·
1863 – Roger Hanson, American general (b. 1827)[154] ·
1874 – Thomas Gregson, English-Australian lawyer
and politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (b.
1798)[155] ·
1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt,
American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1794)[156] ·
1880 – Anselm Feuerbach, German painter and
educator (b. 1829)[157] ·
1880 – Edward William Cooke,
English painter and illustrator (b. 1811)[158] ·
1882 – John William Draper,
English-American physician, chemist, and photographer (b. 1811)[159] ·
1883 – Antoine Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)[160] ·
1891 – Antoine Labelle, Canadian priest (b. 1833)[161] ·
1896 – Joseph Hubert
Reinkens, German bishop and academic (b. 1821)[162] ·
1900 – Stanisław
Mieroszewski, Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member
of the Imperial Council of Austria (b. 1827)[163] ·
1901 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic
(b. 1842) ·
1904 – Anna Winlock, American astronomer and
academic (b. 1857)[164] ·
1910 – Léon Delagrange,
French pilot and sculptor (b. 1873)[165] ·
1912 – Clarence Dutton, American geologist and
soldier (b. 1841)[166] ·
1919 – Georg von Hertling,
German academic and politician, 7th Chancellor
of the German Empire (b. 1843)[167] ·
1920 – Benito Pérez Galdós,
Spanish author and playwright (b. 1843)[168] ·
1924 – Alfred Grünfeld,
Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1852)[169] ·
1925 – Nellie Cashman, American nurse,
restaurateur, entrepreneur, and gold prospector (b. 1845)[170] ·
1927 – Süleyman Nazif,
Turkish poet and civil servant (b. 1870)[171] ·
1931 – Art Acord, American actor and stuntman (b.
1890)[172] ·
1931 – Louise, Princess
Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)[173] ·
1931 – Mohammad Ali Jouhar,
Indian journalist, activist, and scholar (b. 1878) ·
1940 – Flora Finch, English-American actress and
producer (b. 1867) ·
1941 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1859)[174] ·
1943 – Jerzy
Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (b.
1911) ·
1944 – Kaj Munk, Danish playwright and pastor (b.
1898) ·
1960 – Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher,
and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1913)[175] ·
1961 – Erwin Schrödinger,
Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1887)[176] ·
1962 – Hans Lammers, German jurist and politician
(b. 1879) ·
1965 – T. S. Eliot, American-English poet,
playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888)[177] ·
1967 – Donald Campbell, English racing driver and
world speed record holder (b. 1921)[178] ·
1969 – Paul Chambers, American bassist and composer
(b. 1935)[179] ·
1975 – Carlo Levi, Italian painter, author, and
activist (b. 1902)[180] ·
1985 – Brian Horrocks, Indian-English general (b.
1895)[181] ·
1986 – Christopher Isherwood,
English-American author and academic (b. 1904)[182] ·
1986 – Phil Lynott, Irish singer-songwriter, bass
player, and producer (b. 1949)[183] ·
1988 – Lily Laskine, French harp player (b. 1893)[184] ·
1990 – Harold Eugene
Edgerton, American engineer and academic (b. 1903)[185] ·
1990 – Henry Bolte, Australian sergeant and
politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (b.
1908) ·
1994 – R. D. Burman, Indian film composer and music
director (b. 1939)[186] ·
1995 – Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer
(b. 1942)[187] ·
1995 – Sol Tax, American anthropologist and
academic (b. 1907)[188] ·
1997 – Harry Helmsley, American businessman (b.
1909)[189] ·
1998 – Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)[190] ·
1999 – Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman
(b. 1904)[191] ·
2000 – Spyros Markezinis,
Greek lawyer and politician, 170th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1909) ·
2000 – Tom Fears, Mexican-American football player
and coach (b. 1922) ·
2001 – Les Brown,
American bandleader and composer (b. 1912)[192] ·
2004 – Brian Gibson,
English director and screenwriter (b. 1944)[193] ·
2004 – Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)[194] ·
2004 – John Toland,
American historian and author (b. 1912)[195] ·
2005 – Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and manager (b. 1924)[196] ·
2005 – Frank Harary, American mathematician and
academic (b. 1921)[197] ·
2005 – Humphrey Carpenter,
English radio host and author (b. 1946)[198] ·
2005 – Robert Heilbroner,
American economist and historian (b. 1919)[199] ·
2006 – Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and
academic (b. 1912)[200] ·
2006 – Maktoum bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, Emirati politician, 1st Prime
Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1946)[201] ·
2006 – Milton Himmelfarb,
American sociographer, author, and academic (b. 1918)[202] ·
2007 – Helen Hill, American director and producer
(b. 1970) ·
2007 – Steve Krantz, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1923) ·
2007 – Marais Viljoen, South African politician,
5th State
President of South Africa (b. 1915)[203] ·
2008 – Xavier Chamorro
Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1932)[204] ·
2009 – Gert Jonke, Austrian poet, playwright, and
author (b. 1946)[205] ·
2010 – Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and
politician, 1st President of
Suriname (b. 1910)[206] ·
2010 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi,
Japanese engineer (b. 1916)[207] ·
2011 – Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)[208] ·
2011 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter
(b. 1947)[209] ·
2011 – Salmaan Taseer, Pakistani businessman and
politician, 26th Governor of
Punjab, Pakistan (b. 1944)[210] ·
2012 – Eve Arnold, American photographer and
journalist (b. 1912)[211] ·
2012 – Rod Robbie, English-Canadian architect, designed
the Canadian Pavilion and Rogers Centre (b. 1928)[212] ·
2013 – Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (b. 1931)[213] ·
2013 – Zoran Žižić,
Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b.
1951)[214] ·
2015 – Pino Daniele, Italian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1955)[215] ·
2016 – S. H. Kapadia, Indian lawyer, judge, and
politician, 38th Chief Justice of
India (b. 1947)[216] ·
2016 – Stephen W. Bosworth,
American academic and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to South Korea (b. 1939)[217] ·
2017 – Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach and general manager (b. 1918)[218] ·
2017 – Georges Prêtre,
French orchestral and opera conductor (b. 1924)[219] ·
2019 – Harold
Brown, 14th United
States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)[220] ·
2020 – Tom Long, Australian actor (b. 1968)[221] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o January
4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
The eleventh of the Twelve Days of
Christmas. (Western Christianity)[228] ·
Independence
Day (Myanmar), celebrates the independence of Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.[229] ·
Colonial Martyrs
Repression Day (Angola)[230] ·
Day of the Martyrs (Democratic Republic of the Congo)[231] ·
Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)[232] ·
Tokyo Dome Show:
The annual Wrestle Kingdom event
run by New Japan Pro
Wrestling[233] |
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