January 4th

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The January 4 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 4 ) is the fourth day of the Gregorian calendar , thus still remain 361 (in leap years 362) day by year end.

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events

Politics and world events

1248: Alfons III.
1854: McDonald Island
1951: Course of the Korean War
  • 1951: North Korean troops conquer Seoul for the second time with Chinese support in the Korean War .
  • 1959: Violent unrest breaks out in Léopoldville ( Belgian Congo ), which is considered the starting point for the independence of the Congo.
1979: Guadeloupe Conference
2007: Nancy Pelosi

business

science and technology

1910: Santos-Dumont Demoiselle
1918: Rock paintings with a white lady
2004: Mars Rover Spirit (MER-A)

Culture

society

1698: Plan for the palace to be never rebuilt

religion

Disasters

1852: The RMS Amazon
  • 1852: An uncontrollable fire breaks out on the British paddle steamer RMS Amazon on its maiden voyage. The ship explodes and sinks, 104 people are killed.
  • 1970: An earthquake of intensity 7.5 in the province of Yunnan , China, calls for about 10,000 deaths.
  • 1990: A railway accident near Sangi in Pakistan claims around 350 lives and injures 700.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

nature and environment

Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park

Sports

1880: Chimborazo
  • 1880: The Chimborazo , with 6,310 m one of the highest peaks in the Andes , is climbed for the first time by the British mountaineer Edward Whymper .
  • 1967: The athlete Donald Campbell tries to set a water speed record on the British lake Coniston Water . His racing boat overturns and Campbell is killed.
  • 2008: The Dakar Rally does not take place for the first time in its 30-year history. The organizer is canceling the competition due to an urgent travel warning from the French government. In addition to the murder of four French tourists on December 24, 2007 and a fatal attack on three soldiers on the border with Algeria, there had also been a terrorist threat against the rally itself. As a consequence of the terror threat and the cancellation in 2008, the Dakar Rally has not taken place in Africa since then, but in various South American countries between 2009 and 2019 and in Saudi Arabia since 2020.
  • 2017: The 105-year-old Robert Marchand sets a world record for the first time in the “105+” age group with 22.574 kilometers in the Vélodrome National near Paris . The UCI has created an age group especially for him.
  • Every year on January 4th, the third competition of the Four Hills Tournament takes place in ski jumping on the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck .

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

Isaac Newton (* 1643)

18th century

Jacob Grimm (* 1785)

19th century

1801-1850

Georg Büchmann (* 1822)

1851-1900

Ramon Casas i Carbó (* 1866)
Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus (* 1887)

20th century

1901-1925

  • 1901: CLR James , British cultural critic, journalist, socialist theorist and writer
  • 1901: Hermann zu Leiningen , German automobile racing driver
  • 1902: Kurt Baurichter , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, District President of Düsseldorf
Georg Elser (* 1903)
Friedrich Schütter (* 1921)

1926-1950

  • 1926: Don Arden , British music manager
  • 1926: Bengt Johansson , Swedish wrestler, world champion
  • 1927: Hans Bentzien , German politician and party functionary, Minister for Culture of the GDR
  • 1927: Claus Jacobi , German journalist, editor-in-chief, publisher and author
  • 1927: Barbara Rush , American actress
  • 1928: Werner Felfe , German politician and party functionary, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, first secretary of the Halle district leadership
  • 1929: Arik Brauer , Austrian painter, singer and poet
  • 1929: Amitai Etzioni , American sociologist
Günter Schabowski (* 1929)
Grace Bumbry (born 1937)
Gao Xingjian (* 1940)
Richard R. Schrock (* 1945)

1951-1975

Wolfgang Tiefensee (* 1955)
Michael Stipe (* 1960)
Till Lindemann (* 1963)
Christian Kern (* 1966)
Josh Stamberg (* 1970)

1976-2000

Bülent Ceylan (* 1976)
Silvy de Bie (* 1981)
Lenora Crichlow (* 1985)

21st century

Died

Before the 16th century

Sancho II. († 1248)

16th to 18th centuries

19th century

Charlotte Lennox († 1804)
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger († 1849)

20th century

1901-1950

Anton von Werner († 1915)
Henri Bergson († 1941)

1951-2000

TS Eliot
(† 1965)
John B. Hollister († 1979)

21st century

  • 2001: Alexandra Adler , American neurologist and psychiatrist of Austrian origin, specialist in brain trauma
  • 2001: Les Brown , American big band leader
  • 2001: Perry Schwartz , American football player
Ada Falcón († 2002)
Michel Galabru († 2016)

Holidays and memorial days

Further entries can be found in the list of days of remembrance and action .

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