January 4th Holiday List
- Dimpled Chad Day
- Free Flower Basket Day
- National Spaghetti Day
- National Trivia Day
- Pop Music Chart Day
- Tom Thumb Day
- World Braille Day
- World Hypnotism Day
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January 4th Horoscope Sign is Capricorn
Time period: December 21 – January 20Element: Earth
Quality: Cardinal
Ruling planet: Saturn
Symbol: Sea-Goat
Sign ruler: Saturn, Uranus
Birthstone: Garnet
Lucky Numbers: 4, 8, 13, 22
Personality Traits: Responsible, leaders, disciplined, independent, loyal, stubborn, bossy, condescending.
Famous Capricorns: Tiger Woods, Stephen Hawking, Bradley Cooper, Jim Carrey, Elvis Presley, Isaac Newton, Muhammed Ali, Mel Gibson, Katie Couric, Rand Paul, Nicholas Cage.
January 4th Trivia
- 1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir, “Twelve Years a Slave,”
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- 1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
- 1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.
- 1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
- 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
- 1965 – Julia Ormond, Actress was born in Epsom, United Kingdom.
- 1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
- 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
- 1986 – The song, “Say You, Say Me,” by Lionel Richie was the #1 song on the Hot 100 Billboard.
- 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
- 2004 – The song, “Lose Yourself,” by Eminem was the #1 song on the Hot 100 Billboard.
- 2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history. (and re-elected gain in 2018)
- 2016 – The song, “Hello,” by Adelle was the #1 song on the Hot 100 Billboards.
- 2018 – Nancy Pelosi is elected the new House speaker in a majority vote by the House of Representatives on the first day of the 116th Congress.
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