About January 4
January 4, 2023 is the 4th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 361 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 18 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 4
- 871 –Battle of Reading: Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
- 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.
- 1649 –English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
- 1847 –Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
- 1863 –The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
- 1884 –The Fabian Society is founded in London.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
- 1955 –The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
- 1958 –Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit.
- 1966 –A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
- 1972 –Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England, United Kingdom.
- 1974 –United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
- 1976 –The Reavey and O'Dowd killings take place (part of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
- 1987 –The 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston, Massachusetts from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
- 1998 –A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
- 1998 –Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
- 1999 –Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
- 1999 –Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshiping in an Islamabad, Pakistan mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
- 2004 –Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
- 2010 –The Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building is officially opened.
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