Global Days & Remarks on 4 January.
4 Jan: World Braille Day.
4 Jan: Independence Day (Myanmar)- celebrates the independence of Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.
Important Events on 4 January.
1854 A.D. = The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1881 A.D. = Lokmanya Tilak started the Kesari newspaper in Pune.
1948 A.D. = Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic.
1958 A.D. = Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 A.D. = Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
2004 A.D. = Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2010 A.D. = The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.
2021 A.D. = First Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines given to the general public with 82-year-old Brian Pinker in the UK first to be jabbed.
2022 A.D. = Blackberry phones officially ended their service after a year-long transition to a software-based business model.
Important Birthdays on 4 January
1643 A.D. = Sir Isaac Newton (English Mathematician and Physicist).
1889 A.D. = M. Patanjali Sastri (Indian Lawyer and Jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of India).
1931 A.D. = Nirupa Roy (an Indian Actress who gave new dimensions to the mother’s character with her unmatched performance. Her original name was ‘Nightingale Ben’).
Important Death Anniversary on 4 January.
1994 A.D. = R. D. Burman (Indian Film Composer and Music Director).
