SomeFacts | January 4

On this day - January 4

Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.

871 — Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred ...

1642 — English Civil War: King Charles I, accompanied by 400 ...

1649 — English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I ...

1717 — The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple ...

1762 — Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of ...

1798 — Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its ...

1844 — The first issue of the Swedish-languaged Saima newspaper ...

1853 — After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the ...

1854 — The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William ...

1863 — The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, ...

1878 — Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman ...

1884 — The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.

1885 — Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier ...

1896 — Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.

1903 — Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna ...

1909 — Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic ...

1912 — The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British ...

1918 — The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by ...

1944 — World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping ...

1946 — The first day of a three-day "disastrous" tornado ...

1948 — Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming ...

1951 — Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for ...

1956 — The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos ...

1958 — Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by ...

1959 — Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of ...

1965 — Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 crashes on approach to Alma-Ata ...

1967 — The Doors released their eponymous debut album.

1972 — Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old ...

1975 — This date overflowed the 12-bit field that had been used in ...

1976 — The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish ...

1987 — The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to ...

1989 — Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 ...

1990 — In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded ...

1998 — A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern ...

1999 — Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as ...

2000 — A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides ...

2004 — Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following ...

2004 — Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 ...

2006 — Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the ...

2007 — The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy ...

2008 — A Let L-410 Turbolet crashes in the Los Roques Archipelago in ...

2010 — The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, ...

2013 — A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in ...

2018 — Hennenman–Kroonstad train crash: A passenger train operated by ...

2019 — A fire in an escape room in Koszalin, Poland, kills five ...