01-03-2011, 07:20 PM
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January 4th
1643 ~ Birthday of Isaac Newton, Scientist & Philosopher.
1785 ~ Birthday of Jakob Grimm, German philologist, elder half of the Grimm Brothers.
1948 ~ Burma gained its independence from the UK.
1958 ~ Sputnik 1 burned up on reentry into Earth's atmosphere (launched 4 October, 1957).
1960 ~ Death of Albert Camus, French Philosopher & Writer.
1961 ~ Death of Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian Physicist, awarderd the Nobel Prize in Physics 1933.
1965 ~ Death of T.S. Eliot, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1948.
1965 ~ In his State of the Union address, President Johnson outlined his ''Great Society'' goals.
1967 ~ Donald Campbell died while trying to break the water speed record.
2004 ~ The first of two NASA Mars Rovers, Spirit, landed successfully on Mars.
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