Notable Historical Events on January 4th
January 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
46 |
Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. |
BC AD | |
274 |
St Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
871 |
Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
1357 |
Flemish earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty |
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. |
1519 |
-6] 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz) |
1570 |
Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew" |
1642 |
King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament |
1698 |
Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire. |
1717 |
Netherlands, England & France sign Triple Alliance |
1725 |
Benjamin Franklin arrives in London [OS=Dec 24 1724] |
1754 |
Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC) |
1762 |
England declares war on Spain & Naples |
1780 |
Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ |
1781 |
Andre Méchain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio) |
1832 |
Insurrection of Trinidad negroes |
1843 |
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris |
1843 |
Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens |
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. |
1861 |
Pres Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession |
1861 |
US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama |
1862 |
Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath |
1863 |
4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY |
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. |
1881 |
Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau |
1883 |
Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms |
1884 |
Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario) |
1884 |
The Fabian Society is founded in London. |
1885 |
Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22) |
1887 |
Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF) |
1893 |
US pres Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy |
1894 |
France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia |
1896 |
AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, NYC |
1896 |
Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state |
1898 |
1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life & Letters" appears |
1902 |
Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick v England at the MCG |
1902 |
The French Panama Canal Company offers to sell its right to build a canal to the US for 40 million; this will tip the balance away from those favoring a canal through Nicaraugua |
1903 |
Topsy, an elephant, electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign. |
1904 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games to 1 |
1904 |
In 'Gonzales v Williams', the US Supreme Court rules that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and may not be refused admission into continental United States; not until 1917 will citizenship rights be granted |
1906 |
South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win |
1907 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London |
1912 |
Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr |
1912 |
The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter. |
1915 |
1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho |
1915 |
Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops |
1920 |
1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes |
1920 |
Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits |
1921 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in NYC |
1923 |
1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth Texas) |
1923 |
Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin |
1925 |
French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better" |
1926 |
Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator |
1932 |
Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG |
1932 |
British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru |
1932 |
State of siege proclaimed in Honduras |
1934 |
1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres |
1935 |
Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue" |
1935 |
Ft Jefferson National Monument, Fla established |
1936 |
Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade |
1936 |
Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v South Africa |
1939 |
Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a US graduate school |
1939 |
Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration |
1941 |
Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet |
1942 |
NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24 |
1942 |
Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida |
1942 |
Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame |
1943 |
Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers" |
1944 |
Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department |
1945 |
Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam |
1945 |
US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack |
1947 |
"Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances |
1947 |
"Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 417 performances |
1947 |
Emilio G. Segrè and Carlo Perrier announce technetium, a previously unknown element and the first artificially synthesized chemical element |
1948 |
Burma declares independence from UK |
1951 |
During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul |
1953 |
KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville |
1954 |
Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres |
1957 |
"Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS) |
1957 |
Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 |
1958 |
Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up |
1959 |
Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity |
1960 |
European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm |
1961 |
Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants |
1962 |
1st automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City |
1963 |
Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon |
1965 |
LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address |
1966 |
Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test |
1966 |
WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas |
1968 |
Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million |
1969 |
"Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 perfs |
1969 |
France begins arms embargo against Israel |
1969 |
A People's Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers |
1970 |
Beatles last recording session at EMI studios |
1970 |
KC Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game |
1970 |
Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game |
1970 |
NYC transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used |
1970 |
Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary |
1971 |
Congressional Black Caucus organizes |
1971 |
Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin Is |
1971 |
Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims |
1971 |
Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated |
1972 |
Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London. |
1974 |
Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee |
1975 |
"Good News" closes at St James Theater NYC after 16 performances |
1975 |
"Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances |
1975 |
"Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 341 performances |
1975 |
Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828) |
1975 |
Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica |
1975 |
Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
1976 |
"Candide" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 740 performances |
1976 |
"Home Sweet Homer" opens & closes at Palace Theater NYC |
1976 |
Reavey and O'Dowd killings: the Ulster Volunteer Force shoot dead 6 Catholic civilians in 2 co-ordinated attacks in County Armagh, North Ireland |
1977 |
Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play |
1981 |
"Frankenstein" opens & closes on Broadway |
1981 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 578 performances |
1981 |
69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63) |
1981 |
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" |
1981 |
"Red Right 88", trailing 14—12 with little time remaining the Browns chose to attempt an end zone pass play (Red Right 88) before trying for a game-winning field goal in the final minute, but the pass is intercepted by Raiders safety Mike Davis and Oakland wins |
1982 |
Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show" |
1982 |
Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show |
1982 |
Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm |
1982 |
ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) & ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th & 6th ABC radio network |
1983 |
US Football League holds its 1st player draft |
1984 |
"Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV |
1984 |
Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game |
1986 |
David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide |
1986 |
NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots |
1987 |
16 die in a train crash in Chase Md |
1989 |
Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion |
1989 |
US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean |
1989 |
VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president |
1991 |
AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable |
1991 |
Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal |
1991 |
Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th |
1991 |
Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland |
1992 |
8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome) |
1993 |
7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome) |
1994 |
10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome) |
1995 |
Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House |
1996 |
"Father" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances |
1998 |
"Funny Thing Happened," closes at St James NYC after 715 perform |
1998 |
"Ivanov," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 51 performances |
1998 |
"Triumph of Love," closes at Royale Theater NYC |
1998 |
Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages. |
1998 |
A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction. |
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. |
2000 |
A day after accepting the head coaching position of the New York Jets, Bill Belichick resigns |
2001 |
Rapper Vanilla Ice spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife's hair during a row |
2004 |
Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC. |
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. |
2010 |
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest building, is officially opened. |
2010 |
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from its list of communicable diseases of public health significance. |
2013 |
9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria |
2013 |
8 people are killed by a gunman in Kawit, the Philippines |
2013 |
6 people are killed a 2 are seriously injured after a snowmobile veers off a ski slope on Mt Cermis, Italy |
2013 |
3 people are killed after a Beechcraft BE35 crashes into a house in Florida |
2014 |
14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India |
2015 |
Family, officers attend funeral of murdered NYPD Officer Wenjian Liu |
2015 |
Pope Francis announces 15 bishops, archbishops to become cardinals |
2016 |
Armed protesters refuse to leave federal building in Oregon |
2016 |
Saudi execution of Shia cleric threatens to deepen regional sectarian crisis |
2017 |
Janet Jackson, 50, gives birth to a boy, Eissa Al Mana |
2017 |
Anchor Megyn Kelly to join NBC after 12 years with Fox News |
2018 |
US Powerball jackpot swells to $460 million, game's seventh-largest |
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