4 January

A list of events which occurred on the 4th of January.
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:Bill Nunes is born.
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:Gene De Ruelle is born.
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:Erik Cord, James Gruzal and Jim Norton are born.
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:Richard Lavin is born.
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:Diana Ewing is born.
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:Robert Vernon Biggs is born.
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:Ann Magnuson is born.
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:Matt Frewer is born.
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:David Bowe is born.
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:David Roach is born.
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:Sixth and final day of filming on .
:Star Trek production staff, including Robert H. Justman attend a Screen Actor's Guild Trial Board meeting pursuant to their complaint against actor John Drew Barrymore. As a result of this meeting, Barrymore's SAG membership is suspended for six months.
:Bob Almond and Judy Klass are born.
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:Third day of filming on . 
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:Zak Knutson is born.
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:105th day of filming on .
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:Zachary Culbertson and June Diane Raphael are born.
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:Thirty-eighth day of filming on .
: premieres in France on TF1 : Only thirteen episodes were broadcast at the time. The 66 other episodes aired finally in on the channel La 5.
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:First day of filming on .
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:Second revised final draft script for is submitted.
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:Sixth day of filming on .
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:Final draft script for is submitted.
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:Star Trek: The Experience opens in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel.
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: airs on Sky One in the United Kingdom.
:Final draft script for is submitted.
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:Second day of filming on .
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:Nineteenth day of filming on .
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:Sixth day of filming on .
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:Bernie Williams dies.
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:Rudy Cataldi dies.
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:Joe Podnar dies.
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:Gregory Sierra dies.
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:David Soul and Tracy Tormé die.
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