Today in History - History - January 4th

1939Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration

1954Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville

1944Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department

1970Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary

1847Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1932British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru

1932Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG

1642King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament

1903Topsy, an elephant, electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.

1986NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots

1809Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind)

1937Grace Bumbry, St Louis, mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhäuser)

1935Floyd Patterson, Waco North Carolina, heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Oly-gold-1952)

1785Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, philologist and folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" (d. 1863)

2013Former World Middleweight champ Jake LaMotta (90) weds his longtime fiancée Denise Baker (62) in Bisbee, Arizona

1926Composer Irving Berlin (37) weds heiress Ellin Mackay in a simple civil ceremony

1960Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46

1965T. S. Eliot, poet and Nobel laureate (Washed Country), dies in London at 76

1821Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland at 46

1961Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 73