On this day: January 4th

On this day: January 4th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: January 4th

1790: President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.
1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1885: The first successful appendectomy is performed in the United States.
1896: Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1936: Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts, called the First Hit Parade.
1948: Burma gains independence from the United Kingdom. Burma (Myanmar) came under British rule on January 1, 1886.
1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit. The Soviet Union was the first nation to send an artificial Earth satellite into space. It formed part of the space race.
1974: President Richard Nixon rejected subpoenas from the Senate Watergate Committee seeking audio tapes and related documents.
2004: Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars.
2010: Burj Khalifa is opened. Burj Khalifa in Dubai is currently the world’s tallest building, at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).

1941: Henri Bergson (French philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate)
1960: Albe rt Camus (French author, journalist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate)
1961: Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
1965: T. S. Eliot (American/English publisher, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate)
2011: Gerry Rafferty (Scottish singer-songwriter)

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