Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 4

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  An 1855 engraving of Samuel Colt
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  Video clip of the execution of Topsy
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  Ariel Sharon
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  Nancy Pelosi
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  Sao Shwe Thaik
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  Constantine Hangerli
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  Rose Heilbron
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  Aeneas Mackintosh
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  Artist's depiction of a Mars Exploration Rover

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Independence Day in Myanmar (1948)	refimprove section
46 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Forces loyal to Julius Caesar were defeated in the Battle of Ruspina by the Republican forces of the Optimates.	single source
1847 – American gun inventor Samuel Colt sold the first thousand of his Colt Walker revolvers to the Texas Rangers.	Orange "additional sources needed" banner
1854 – Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald Islands, uninhabited, barren islands located in the Southern Ocean about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.	unreferenced section
1885 – Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeated a larger Qing Chinese force at the Battle of Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.	Single source
1884 – The Fabian Society, an intellectual movement whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist methods rather than revolutionary means, was founded in London.	refimprove section
1903 – Topsy, a circus elephant considered unmanageable, was executed by electrocution at publicity event advertising the opening of Luna Park, Coney Island, captured on film by the Edison Manufacturing Company.	refimprove section
1912 – The Boy Scouts Association was incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.	Numerous issues
1944 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Forces began Operation Carpetbagger, a military operation involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters across Europe.	no footnotes
1948 – Burma achieved independence from the British Empire, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first president.	Missing key info - President for 4 yrs but only two quotes from his speeches and no other info
1974 – Harry Schwarz and Mangosuthu Buthelezi signed the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith, the first declaration by black and white South African leaders to commit to non-violence and a non-discriminatory society.	missing page numbers
1976 – The Troubles: Volunteers from the Ulster Volunteer Force shot dead five Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.	combined with Kingsmill massacre on January 5
1998 – A massive ice storm struck eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, eventually killing over 30 people, injuring over 340 others, and causing extensive damage to the area's electrical infrastructure.	refimprove section
2006 – Prime minister of Israel Ariel Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke, leaving Ehud Olmert as Acting Prime Minister.	refimprove section
Moses Mendelssohn |d|1786|	Too much uncited
[[T. S. Eliot|Template:Nowrap Eliot]] |d|1965|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 1698 – Most of London's Palace of Whitehall, the main residence of English monarchs since 1530, was destroyed by fire.
• 1798 – After his appointment as Prince of Wallachia, Constantine Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume the throne.
• 1909 – British explorer Aeneas Mackintosh (pictured), a member of the Nimrod Expedition, escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
• 1936 – Billboard published its first music hit parade.
• 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul from United Nations forces.
• 1972 – Rose Heilbron (pictured) became the first female judge to sit at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales.
• 1973 – Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running sitcom in the world, premiered as an episode of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse.
• 1989 – Two American [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat|Template:Nowrap Tomcats]] shot down two Libyan [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23|Template:Nowrap Floggers]] that appeared to be attempting to engage them over the Gulf of Sidra.
• 2004 – Spirit (artist's impression depicted), the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars.
• 2007 – Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.
• 2018 – A passenger train collided with a truck and derailed in the Free State, South Africa, killing 21 people and injuring 254 others.

• Born/died this day: | Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy |b|1334| George Tryon |b|1832| Josef Suk |b|1874| Johanna Westerdijk |b|1883|Doreen Valiente |b|1922| Nellie Cashman |d|1925| Arthur Rose Eldred |d|1951| Erwin Schrödinger |d|1961| David Berman |b|1967| Tom Acker |d|2021

January 4: Colonial Repression Martyrs' Day in Angola (1961) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1853 – Solomon Northup (pictured) regained his freedom after having been sold into slavery in the American South; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later became a bestseller.
• 1970 – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake occurred in Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
• 1977 – The English punk-rock band Sex PistolsTemplate:` lewd and disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport prompted the record label EMI to end their contract.
• 2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai.
• 2020 – Sembawang Hot Spring Park in Singapore reopened after being redeveloped by the National Parks Board.