4 Januar

The **4t o Januar** is the 4t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 361 days ti come (362 in lowp years).

## Events
 

* 1642 - Charles I, Keeng o Scots sends sodgers tae reest members o the Inglis Pairliament.
* 1644 - William Mynors sails past an names Christmas Island (Auld Style 25 December 1643).
* 1854 - The Subantairctic McDonald Islands are discovered.
* 1880 - Edward Whymper climbs Chimborazo in Ecuador.
* 1889 - The Oklahoma Land Run opens 2 million acres o unused Oklahoma laund tae first come-first serve settlers frae 22 Aprile.
* 1896 - Utah becomes the 45t state o the Unitit States.
* 1948 - Burma gets unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1950 - Israel declares Jerusalem as its caipital ceety.
* 1951 - Cheenese an North Korean forces tak Seoul durin the Korean War.
* 1958 - Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the Sooth Pole - the first person thare syne Robert Falcon Scott.
* 1958 - Sputnik 1 faws back tae the Yird.
* 1964 - Pape Paul VI visits Israel.
* 1970 - A magnitude 7.7 yirdquauk strikes Tanghai Coonty in Cheenae, killin 15,000 fowk.
* 1990 - The Sukkur rail disaster in Pakistan kills 307 fowk.
* 1998 - A major ice storm hits Canadae an the Unitit States.
* 2004 - Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars.
* 2004 - Mikheil Saakashvili is electit Preses o Georgie.
* 2006 - Prime meenister o Israel Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke. Ehud Olmert temporarily takes ower.
* 2007 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman tae be electit Speaker o the Unitit States House o Representatives.
* 2010 - Openin o the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tawest biggin in the warld.
* 2016 - Zinedine Zidane becomes the new manager o Real Madrid C.F..
* 2021 - A Breetish juidge blocks the Unitit States's extradition request for Julian Assange on mental heal groonds.
* 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: Tichter lockdoon restrictions are introducit in baith Scotland an Ingland.

## Births

* 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, Inglis scientist (d. 1727)
* 1785 - Jacob Grimm, German philologist an meethologist (d. 1863)
* 1809 - Louis Braille, French inventor o Braille (d. 1852)
* 1848 - Katsura Taro, Prime meenister o Japan (d. 1913)
* 1913 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan Heid o State (d. 2007)
* 1929 - Günter Schabowski, German politeecian (d. 2015)
* 1940 - Gao Xingjian, Cheenese-French writer
* 1940 - Brian Josephson, Welsh pheesicist
* 1941 - Maureen Reagan, dochter o Ronald Reagan an Jane Wyman (d. 2001)
* 1945 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist
* 1960 - Michael Stipe, American sangster (R.E.M.)
* 1963 - May-Britt Moser, Norse neurologist
* 1966 - Christian Kern, umwhile Chancellor o Austrick
* 1977 - David Millar, Scots cyclist
* 1986 - James Milner, Inglis fitbawer
* 1990 - Toni Kroos, German fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1825 - Ferdinand I o the Twa Sicilies (b. 1751)
* 1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher (b. 1859)
* 1960 - Albert Camus, French writer (b. 1913)
* 1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrick pheesicist (b. 1887)
* 1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-Inglis writer (b. 1888)
* 2010 - Johan Ferrier, 1st Preses o Suriname (b. 1910)
* 2011 - Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian fruit seller (b. 1984)
* 2011 - Gerry Rafferty, Scots muisicker (b. 1947)
* 2015 - Stuart Scott, American sportscaster (b. 1965)
* 2018 - Brendan Byrne, American politeecian, 47t Govrenor o New Jersey (b. 1924)
* 2021 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch theoretical pheesicist (b. 1931)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Burma/Myanmar)
* Warld Braille Day
* Day o the Fallen Against Colonial Repression (Angolae)
* Day o the Martyrs (Democratic Republic o the Congo)
* Ogoni Day (Muivement for the Survival o the Ogoni fowk, Nigerie)