What are the important events that happened on January 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 4 is the 4th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 22, 2023 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,405,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetragon’ day.
Capricorn is the zodiac 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 37 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,031 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 4 Historical Events
- 1642 –King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England’s slide into civil war.
- 1762 –Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
- 1854 –The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
- 1863 –The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
- 1912 –The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal charter.
- 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.
- 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 –Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
Who were born on January 4?
- 1664 –Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
- 1839 –Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896)
- 1874 –Josef Suk, Czech composer (d. 1935)
- 1947 –Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
- 1960 –Art Paul Schlosser, American comedian,singer and song writer
- 1965 –Guy Forget, French tennis player
- 1970 –Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
- 1986 –James Milner, English footballer
- 1989 –Graham Rahal, American race car driver
- 1990 –Iago Falqué Silva, Spanish footballer
Who died on January 4?
- 1428 –Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1370)
- 1903 –Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
- 1969 –Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
- 1990 –Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
- 2003 –Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
- 2003 –Sabine Ulibarri, American writer (b. 1919)
- 2005 –Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (b. 1927)
- 2007 –Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
- 2007 –Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
- 2011 –Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
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