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Events on the 4th of January in history

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04 Jan 2046 Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
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04 Jan 0274 St. Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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04 Jan 0871 Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
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04 Jan 0871 Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
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04 Jan 1357 Flemish Earl Louis and Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty
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04 Jan 1490 Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the King of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lèse-majesté.
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04 Jan 1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
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04 Jan 1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
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04 Jan 1642 King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
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04 Jan 1649 English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
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04 Jan 1717 Netherlands, England and France sign Triple Alliance
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04 Jan 1717 The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
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04 Jan 1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
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04 Jan 1762 England declares war on Spain and Naples
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04 Jan 1762 Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
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04 Jan 1790 President Washington delivers 1st "State of the Union"
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04 Jan 1798 Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.
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04 Jan 1832 Insurrection of Trinidad negroes
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04 Jan 1843 Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
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04 Jan 1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
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04 Jan 1854 The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
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04 Jan 1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
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04 Jan 1861 US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
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04 Jan 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
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04 Jan 1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of New York
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04 Jan 1863 The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
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04 Jan 1865 The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
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04 Jan 1878 Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
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04 Jan 1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
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04 Jan 1884 The Fabian Society is founded in London, England, United Kingdom.
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04 Jan 1885 Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22)
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04 Jan 1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
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04 Jan 1889 The Oklahoma Land Run opens 2 million acres of unused Oklahoma Territory to first serve first come settlers on April 22.
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04 Jan 1893 US President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
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04 Jan 1894 France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
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04 Jan 1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
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04 Jan 1896 Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
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04 Jan 1902 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick vs. England at the MCG
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04 Jan 1903 Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. Thomas Edison's movie company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of the execution.
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04 Jan 1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games to 1
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04 Jan 1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US
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04 Jan 1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win
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04 Jan 1912 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-ctr
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04 Jan 1912 The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
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04 Jan 1915 1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
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04 Jan 1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
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04 Jan 1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
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04 Jan 1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
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04 Jan 1923 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Ft Worth Texas)
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04 Jan 1926 Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek Dictator
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04 Jan 1932 Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs. South Africa at the MCG
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04 Jan 1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru
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04 Jan 1932 State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
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04 Jan 1935 Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"
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04 Jan 1935 Ft Jefferson National Monument, Florida established
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04 Jan 1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
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04 Jan 1936 Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs. South Africa
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04 Jan 1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman Dean of a US graduate school
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04 Jan 1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
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04 Jan 1942 NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
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04 Jan 1942 Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida
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04 Jan 1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
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04 Jan 1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers"
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04 Jan 1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department
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04 Jan 1944 World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
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04 Jan 1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
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04 Jan 1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
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04 Jan 1947 "Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
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04 Jan 1947 "Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 417 performances
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04 Jan 1948 Burma declares independence from the UK
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04 Jan 1948 Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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04 Jan 1951 During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul
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04 Jan 1951 Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
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04 Jan 1953 KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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04 Jan 1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
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04 Jan 1954 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
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04 Jan 1955 The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
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04 Jan 1957 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
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04 Jan 1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
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04 Jan 1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up
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04 Jan 1958 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
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04 Jan 1959 Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
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04 Jan 1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
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04 Jan 1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (NYC)
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04 Jan 1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
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04 Jan 1965 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
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04 Jan 1966 Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
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04 Jan 1966 WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
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04 Jan 1966 A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
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04 Jan 1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
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04 Jan 1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million
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04 Jan 1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 performances
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04 Jan 1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel
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04 Jan 1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
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04 Jan 1970 Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game
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04 Jan 1970 Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game
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04 Jan 1970 New York City transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new larger tokens used
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04 Jan 1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
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04 Jan 1970 A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
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04 Jan 1971 Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected Governor of Virgin Is
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04 Jan 1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
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04 Jan 1972 Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
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04 Jan 1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
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04 Jan 1974 United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
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04 Jan 1975 "Good News" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 16 performances
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04 Jan 1975 "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances
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04 Jan 1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828)
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04 Jan 1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
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04 Jan 1975 Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
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04 Jan 1976 "Candide" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 740 performances
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04 Jan 1976 "Home Sweet Homer" opens and closes at Palace Theater, New York City
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04 Jan 1976 The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
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04 Jan 1977 Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play
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04 Jan 1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
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04 Jan 1981 "Frankenstein" opens and closes on Broadway
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04 Jan 1981 "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 578 performances
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04 Jan 1981 69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)
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04 Jan 1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
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04 Jan 1982 ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) and ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th and 6th ABC radio network
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04 Jan 1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show
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04 Jan 1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
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04 Jan 1983 US Football League holds its 1st player draft
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04 Jan 1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
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04 Jan 1984 Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game
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04 Jan 1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase, Maryland
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04 Jan 1987 The 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
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04 Jan 1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
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04 Jan 1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
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04 Jan 1989 VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself President
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04 Jan 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.
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04 Jan 1990 In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
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04 Jan 1991 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
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04 Jan 1991 Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
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04 Jan 1991 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
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04 Jan 1991 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes Premier of Poland
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04 Jan 1993 7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500 - Tokyo Dome)
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04 Jan 1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House
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04 Jan 1996 "Father" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances
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04 Jan 1998 "Funny Thing Happened, " closes at St. James NYC after 715 performances
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04 Jan 1998 "Ivanov, " closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 51 performances
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04 Jan 1998 "Triumph of Love, " closes at Royale Theater, New York City
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04 Jan 1998 A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
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04 Jan 1998 Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
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04 Jan 1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
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04 Jan 2000 Two trains on the Røros Line collide in Åsta, Norway, resulting in an explosive fire and 19 deaths.
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04 Jan 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
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04 Jan 2004 Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
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04 Jan 2006 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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04 Jan 2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
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04 Jan 2010 Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is officially opened.
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04 Jan 2013 A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines.
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