{"id":16896,"date":"2024-01-04T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T18:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2024-01-03T14:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T09:21:44","slug":"history-of-4-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-4-january\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 4 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 4 January<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1928<\/strong> &#8211; NBC Radio debuted &#8220;The Dodge Victory Hour&#8221; which starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra and singer Al Jolson.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1935<\/strong> &#8211; Bob Hope was heard for the first time on network radio as part of &#8220;The Intimate Revue.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>1936<\/strong> &#8211; The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by &#8220;Billboard&#8221; magazine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1944<\/strong> &#8211; The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British Fifth Army in Italy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1948<\/strong> &#8211; Britain granted independence to Burma.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1951<\/strong> &#8211; During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1953<\/strong> &#8211; Tufted plastic carpeting was introduced by Barwick Mills.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1957<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Collier\u2019s&#8221; magazine was published for the last time. The periodical was published for 69 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1958<\/strong> &#8211; The Soviet satellite\u00a0<i>Sputknik I<\/i> fell to the earth from its orbit. The craft had been launched on October 4, 1957.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1962<\/strong> &#8211; New York City introduced a train that operated without conductors and motormen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1965<\/strong> &#8211; The Fender Guitar Company was sold to CBS for $13 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1965<\/strong> &#8211; In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the &#8220;Great Society.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>1972<\/strong> &#8211; Rose Heilbron became the first woman judge in Britain at the Old Bailey, London.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974<\/strong> &#8211; U.S. President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1974<\/strong> &#8211; NBC-TV presented hockey in prime time. The Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers were the teams in the National Hockey League (NHL) game.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> &#8211; The Broadway show &#8220;Frankenstein&#8221; lost an estimated $2 million, when it opened and closed on the same night.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> &#8211; Bryant Gumbel moved from NBC Sports to the anchor desk where he joined Jane Pauley as co-host of the &#8220;Today&#8221; show on NBC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> &#8211; Wayne \u2018The Great One\u2019 Gretzky scored eight points (four goals and four assists) for the second time in his National Hockey League (NHL) career. Edmonton\u2019s Oilers defeated the Minnesota North Stars, 12-8. The game was the highest-scoring NHL game to date.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn Israel&#8217;s treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; The Greek Cypriot government signed an agreement to buy S-300 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; A drifting Nicaraguan fishing boat was found by the Norwegian oil tanker\u00a0<i>Joelm<\/i>. The fisherman had been lost at sea for 35 days after the engine of their vessel quit working.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota&#8217;s 37th governor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong> &#8211; Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong> &#8211; In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) opened as the world&#8217;s tallest tower at 2,625 feet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A\u00a0murder\u2013suicide\u00a0in\u00a0Li\u00e8ge, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a\u00a0Christmas market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 A high-speed train crashes in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least nine people and injuring 84.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1891\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Edward Brooker, English-Australian sergeant and politician, 31st\u00a0Premier of Tasmania\u00a0(d. 1948)<sup id=\"cite_ref-66\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1895\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Leroy Grumman, American engineer and businessman, co-founded\u00a0Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co.\u00a0(d. 1982)<sup id=\"cite_ref-67\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1896\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Everett Dirksen, American politician (d. 1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1896<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Masson, French painter and illustrator (d. 1987)<sup id=\"cite_ref-69\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1897\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Chen Cheng, Chinese politician,\u00a0Vice President of the Republic of China (d. 1965)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1900\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0James Bond, American ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1989)<sup id=\"cite_ref-71\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1901\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and theorist (d. 1989)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1902\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0John A. McCone, American businessman and politician, 6th\u00a0Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1991)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1905\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Sterling Holloway, American actor (d. 1992)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1913\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (d. 2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1916\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Slim Gaillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1916<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lionel Newman, American pianist and composer (d. 1989)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1916<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Robert Parrish, American actor and director (d. 1995)<sup id=\"cite_ref-78\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1920\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0William Colby, American intelligence officer, 10th\u00a0Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1996)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1924\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Marianne Werner, German shot putter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1925\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (d. 2003)<sup id=\"cite_ref-81\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1927\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)<sup id=\"cite_ref-82\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1927<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Barbara Rush, American actress<sup id=\"cite_ref-83\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1929\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0G\u00fcnter Schabowski, German journalist and politician (d. 2015)<sup id=\"cite_ref-84\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1930\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Sorrell Booke, American actor and director (d. 1994)<sup id=\"cite_ref-85\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1931\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0William Deane, Australian judge and politician, 22nd\u00a0Governor-General of Australia<sup id=\"cite_ref-86\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1931<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Co\u015fkun \u00d6zar\u0131, Turkish footballer and coach (d. 2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1932\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Clint Hill, American secret service agent and author<\/li>\n<li><strong>1932<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Carlos Saura, Spanish director and screenwriter<sup id=\"cite_ref-87\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1934<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rudolf Schuster, Slovak politician, 2nd\u00a0President of Slovakia<sup id=\"cite_ref-88\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1935\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)<sup id=\"cite_ref-89\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1937\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Grace Bumbry, American operatic soprano<sup id=\"cite_ref-90\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1937<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dyan Cannon, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter<sup id=\"cite_ref-91\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1940\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Gao Xingjian, Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic,\u00a0Nobel Prize\u00a0laureate<sup id=\"cite_ref-92\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1940<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist and academic,\u00a0Nobel Prize\u00a0laureate<sup id=\"cite_ref-93\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1941\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2005)<sup id=\"cite_ref-Noble1979_94-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1941<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kalpnath Rai, Indian politician (d. 1999)<sup id=\"cite_ref-95\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1942\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigerian political scientist, academic, and politician<sup id=\"cite_ref-96\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1942<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0John McLaughlin, English guitarist and songwriter<sup id=\"cite_ref-97\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1943\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Doris Kearns Goodwin, American historian and author<sup id=\"cite_ref-98\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1943<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hwang Sok-yong, South Korean author and educator<sup id=\"cite_ref-99\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1945\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Richard R. Schrock, American chemist and academic,\u00a0Nobel Prize\u00a0laureate<sup id=\"cite_ref-100\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1946<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Arthur Conley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)<sup id=\"cite_ref-101\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1947\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Letablier, French sociologist and academic<sup id=\"cite_ref-102\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1948\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer (d. 1992)<sup id=\"cite_ref-103\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1948<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ciss\u00e9 Mariam Ka\u00efdama Sidib\u00e9, Malian civil servant and politician,\u00a0Prime Minister of Mali<\/li>\n<li><strong>1950\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (d. 2013)<sup id=\"cite_ref-104\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1953\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Norberto Alonso, Argentinian footballer<sup id=\"cite_ref-105\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1954\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Tina Knowles, American fashion designer, founded\u00a0House of Der\u00e9on<sup id=\"cite_ref-106\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1956<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ann Magnuson, American actress and performance artist\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-107\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1956<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Zehava Gal-On, Israeli politician<sup id=\"cite_ref-108\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1956<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Bernard Sumner, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<sup id=\"cite_ref-109\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1957\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Patty Loveless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<sup id=\"cite_ref-110\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1958\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Matt Frewer, American-Canadian actor<sup id=\"cite_ref-111\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1960\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter and producer<sup id=\"cite_ref-112\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1963\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Dave Foley, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and producer<sup id=\"cite_ref-113\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1964\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Susan Devoy, New Zealand squash playe<sup id=\"cite_ref-114\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1965<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Guy Forget, French tennis player<sup id=\"cite_ref-115\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1965<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Craig Revel Horwood, Australian-English dancer, choreographer, and director<sup id=\"cite_ref-116\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1965<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Julia Ormond, English actress and producer<sup id=\"cite_ref-117\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1966\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Deana Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<sup id=\"cite_ref-118\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1967<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0David Toms, American golfer and philanthropist<sup id=\"cite_ref-119\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1975\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Paul Watson, English footballer defender and physiotherapist<sup id=\"cite_ref-120\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1978\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Dominik Hrbat\u00fd, Slovak tennis player<sup id=\"cite_ref-121\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1980<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer<sup id=\"cite_ref-122\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1985\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0G\u00f6khan G\u00f6n\u00fcl, Turkish footballer<sup id=\"cite_ref-123\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Al Jefferson, American basketball player<sup id=\"cite_ref-124\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1986\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0James Milner, English footballer<sup id=\"cite_ref-125\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1986\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Youn\u00e8s Kaboul, French footballer centre back<sup id=\"cite_ref-126\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1990\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Toni Kroos, German footballer<sup id=\"cite_ref-127\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1992\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Kris Bryant, American baseball player<sup id=\"cite_ref-128\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1997\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Ante \u017di\u017ei\u0107, Croatian basketball player<sup id=\"cite_ref-129\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1998\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Liza Soberano, Filipina actress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 4 January 1928 &#8211; NBC Radio debuted &#8220;The Dodge Victory Hour&#8221; which starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra and singer Al Jolson. 1935 &#8211; Bob Hope was heard for the first time on network radio as part of &#8220;The Intimate Revue.&#8221; 1936 &#8211; The first pop music chart based on national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,993,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-16896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-4-january","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4ow","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24127,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/24127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}