About January 4
January 4, 2022 is the 4th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 361 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 28 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 4
- 1490 –Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lese-majesty.
- 1642 –King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England’s slide into civil war.
- 1649 –English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
- 1762 –Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
- 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.
- 1865 –The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York, New York.
- 1878 –Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
- 1884 –The Fabian Society is founded in London.
- 1903 –Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
- 1948 –Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1951 –Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
- 1959 –Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
- 1965 –United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his “Great Society” during his State of the Union address.
- 1972 –Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1976 –The Reavey and O'Dowd killings take place (part of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
- 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.
- 1998 –A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
- 1999 –Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshiping in an Islamabad, Pakistan mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
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