Today In History for January 4th.

Highlights of this day in history:
Today in history:
1)46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
2)1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament.
3)1725 Benjamin Franklin arrived in London.
4)1780 Snowstorm hits George Washington’s army at Morristown, New Jersey.
5)1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
6)1847 Manuscripts of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey" sent to publisher T.C. Newby (published December 1847).
7)1881 Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres in Breslau.
8)1903 Topsy the elephant is electrocuted by her owners at Luna Park, Coney Island and filmed by Edison Manufacturing movie company.
9)1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London.
10)1921 Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent" premieres in New York City.
11)1932 British Viceroy of India Lord Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru.
12)1935 Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue".
13)1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers".
14)1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st African American official in US State Department.
15)1947 Emilio G. Segrè and Carlo Perrier announce technetium, a previously unknown element and the first artificially synthesized chemical element.
16)1948 Burma declares independence from the United Kingdom.
17)1954 Elvis Presley records his 1st demo for Sun Records at a recording studio in Memphis, "It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You" and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way".
18)1958 NZ team led by Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole, the 1st to reach the Pole overland using motor vehicles and the 1st since Amundsen
in 1911 and Scott in 1912.
19)1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity.
20)1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm.
21)1970 More than 15,000 people are killed at Tonghai County in China after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake.
22)1976 Australian Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Mark Edmondson upsets John Newcombe 6-7, 6-3, 7-6, 6-1 for his first and
only Grand Slam title.
23)1981 Australian Open Men's Tennis: American Brian Teacher wins his first and only Grand Slam event; beats home favourite, Kim Warwick
7-5, 7-6, 6-3.
24)1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots.
25)1991 12-year-old Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia; youngest world champion in the history of any aquatic event.
26)1992 Boston's Robert Parish becomes 5th player in NBA history to register 2,000 career blocks during Celtics' 100-96 loss at Minnesota - others Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mark Eaton, Wayne Rollins and George Johnson.
27)2001 Washington Wizards forward Michael Jordan becomes 4th player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points; hits a free throw in 2nd quarter of an 89-83 win against his old team, the Chicago Bulls.
28)2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes and elects Nancy Pelosi as the 1st female Speaker of the House.
29)2010 The Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building at 829.8 m (2,722 ft), officially opens in Dubai.
30)2016 Colombo's Gemology Institute certifies world's largest ever blue star sapphire at 1404.49 carats, found in a Sri Lankan mine in August 2015.
31)2019 Indian cricket batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara scores 193 and Rishabh Pant 159 runs as the tourists declare at 622/7 on Day 2 of 4th Test against Australia in Sydney; Pant, first Indian wicketkeeper to hit a century in Australia.
32)2021 First Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations given in the UK.
33)2021 South Korea, already the country with the world's lowest birth rate records more deaths than births for the first time.

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4th January,Myanmar Independence Day
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