The January 4th is the 4th Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 361 days before the end of the year (362 so bissextile).

This day always forms part of the first week of the year according to the standard ISO 8601. Indeed, according to this standard, the first week of the year is the first whose majority of the days are in the New Year's Day.

Events

1 with 1900

20th century

  • 1908 : Moulaï Hafid is proclaimed sultan of the Morocco.

  • 1919 : The Red Army occupies the town of Rīga in Latvia.
  • 1925 : Mussolini dissolves trade union USI and puts an end to the parliamentary democracy in Italy.
  • 1932 : India: the party of the Congress is declared illegal by the Britanniques; arrest of the Mahatma Gandhi.
  • 1936 : First Hit-Parade musical in the American magazine Billboard .
  • 1938 : The Great Britain defers its projects of partition of the Palestine.
  • 1944 : Offensive of the Allied to the Mount-Cassin, in Italy.
  • 1948 : Independence of the Burma.
  • 1951 : Occupation of Seoul by the forces Chinese North-Koreans and .
  • 1958 : The Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite of the history, penetrates in the atmosphere and disintegrates.
  • 1959 : Riot S with Léopoldville with the Belgian Congo, until the January 7th.
  • 1961 : The the United States break officially with the cuban government directed by Fidel Castro. The revolutionist turns to an alliance with the Soviet Union. The third world war is avoided little.
  • 1964 : First voyage of a Pope (Paul VI) in Holy Land.
  • 1966 : France, explosion, followed by a fire of the Refinery of Feyzin in the the Rhone.
  • 1980 : The president Jimmy Carter announces that the the United States will boycott the Olympic Games of Moscow as a disapproval of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
  • 1985 : First in France of the telefilm Châteauvallon , with Chantal Nobel. The high-speed motorboat will be victim of a very serious car accident the April 28th according to.
  • 1989 : First meeting of the king Hassan II of Morocco with a delegation of the Face Polisario with Marrakech.
  • 1990 :
    • the most serious railway catastrophe of the history of the Pakistan makes 285 dead and 400 wounded.
    • For the first time, a casino is open in Czechoslovakia.
  • 1998 : Nearly 180 people are killed in a few days by troops armed in attacks with villages with the west with the Algérie, according to independent newspapers.
  • 1999 : For the first time, with the opening of the meeting to the Bourse de Paris, quotations are posted in Euro S.
  • 2000:
    • the European commission seizes the European Court of justice against the France after the refusal of Paris to raise the Embargo on British bovine meat exports.
    • Martina Hingis and Andre Agassi is officially world champions of Tennis, title allotted by the International federation of Tennis.
    • railway Catastrophe in the south of the Norway, two passenger trains strike and take fire: nineteen died and eighteen seriously injureds.
    • Israel and the Palestinians get along on an Israeli withdrawal of five additional percent of the the West Bank.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • the ministry for Defense announces that four French soldiers having been useful in the Balkans were currently treated for Leucémie in military hospitals. In question, the use by the American forces of ammunition with Uranium impoverished during the conflicts in Bosnia-Herzégovine and with the Kosovo.
    • Algeria, the civil war made: 9006 victims in the year 2000.
  • 2002 : First American killed with the combat in Afghanistan.
  • 2003 : The French Minister for the Foreign affairs Dominique de Villepin, visits some in Ivory Coast, obtains from the president Gbagbo and the rebellious independent group, the patriotic Movement of Ivory Coast (PMIC), which controls the north of the country, that they commit themselves respecting cease-fire and agree to take part the January 15th in Paris with the peace talks.
  • 2004 :
    • the first probe of the American mission Mars Exploration Rover, launched Cap Canaveral the June 10th 2003, is posed on Mars.
    • the delegates of the Loya Jirga , the large assembly of notable Afghan, agree on the text of a new constitution.
    • Beginning of a diplomatic warming between the India and the Pakistan after the meeting of the leaders Indian and Pakistani with Islamabad.
  • 2005 : Assassination with Baghdad of the governor of the province of Baghdad, Ali Al Haidari, like six of its bodyguards.
  • 2007 :
    • France: The President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac convenes the Congrès of the French Parliament before February 22nd, 2007 in order to modify the French Constitution on the statute Pénal of the Head of the State, the text on the New Caledonia and to add to it the inscription of the abolition of the Capital punishment. It in addition wished cause a drop in the Corporation tax of the rate of 33  % with 20  % in five years.
    • the United States: the Congrès of the United States met for the 110e session in order to officialize the swing of the Chambre of the representatives of the United States and the American Sénat in the camp of the democratic party at the conclusion of the elections of semi-mandate last November. Nancy Pelosi was elected president of the Room of the representatives, becoming the first woman to be reached this station in the American history. Harry Reid assumes the chairmanship of the senate.
    • France: the Corsica is touched by a wave of Attentat S in the night of the Wednesday to Thursday making a death and a casualty among the bomb planters. Five explosions took place between 3:15 and 3:30 of the morning with Ajaccio which aimed at banks and the Treasury. Another attack with the explosive close to Solenzara in Corse-du-Sud showed the death of one of the bomb planters and the serious wound of another member of Corsica Nazione.
    • Iraq: the execution by Hanging of the two co-defendants of Saddam Hussein, namely Barzan al-Tikriti her half-brother and former chief of the Iraqi secret services, and Awad Al-Bandar, former president of the revolutionary tribunal, were deferred to the Sunday, January 8, 2007 because of the international pressures and within the Arab world. In addition, thirteen people were killed and twenty-two others wounded in the quasi simultaneous explosion of two car bombs near a service station of Baghdad

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic saints and ortodoxes of the day

  • Holy Angele de Foligno
  • Holy Odilon
  • Holy Anastasia

See too

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