It happened on this day, January 4
Events:
808 – The city of Fez is founded by Idris II to be the first Islamic capital of Morocco Al-Aqsa.
1493 – Italian explorer Christopher Columbus leaves the New World for Spain after completing his first voyage of discovery.
1682 – Louis XIV, King of France, receives the Moroccan ambassador, Mohamed Tamim, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
1896 – Utah becomes the 45th state of the United States.
1927 – Creation of the Saudi Al-Ittihad Club in Jeddah.
1948 – Declaration of independence of Burma.
1951 – Chinese and North Korean forces occupy the city of Seoul in the Korean War.
1958 – The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 veered off course and fell toward Earth.
1959 – The Luna 1 spacecraft becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1961 – The Casablanca Conference brings together African leaders Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mohammed V, Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta.
1965 – Israel announces that the number of Falash Jews immigrating there is 250,000 people.
1969 – France begins implementing a decision banning the export of arms and parts of military equipment to Israel, in response to Israeli aggression against Beirut International Airport.
1980 – US President Jimmy Carter announces a US boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics, in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1989 – US warplanes shoot down two Libyan warplanes in Libyan territorial waters in the Mediterranean Sea.
2004 – The Spirit space probe successfully lands on the surface of Mars.
2006 – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum takes over as ruler of the Emirate of Dubai following the death of his brother, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
💥 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was transferred to hospital following a stroke.
2007 – The United States House of Representatives elects Senator Nancy Pelosi as Speaker, becoming the first woman to hold the position in United States history.
2010 – Burj Dubai was officially opened, in the presence of the Ruler of the Emirate of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
2015 – Archaeologists announce the discovery of the tomb of an Egyptian pharaonic queen named Khentakaus III.
2018 – Egyptian player Mohamed Salah wins the 2017 Best African Player of the Year award at the CAF Awards ceremony.
💥 At least 20 people died and 260 others were injured in a train collision in Kroonstad, South Africa.
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Births:
1809 – Louis Braille, French teacher for the blind and inventor of the Braille reading method for the blind.
1848 – Taro Katsura, Prime Minister of Japan.
1940 – Brian Josephson, Northern Irish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973.
** Zhao Xingjian, French writer of Chinese origin, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000.
** Léon Souriant, Belgian footballer.
1942 – Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, former Prime Minister of Kuwait.
(1945-Richard Schrock, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2005
** Sohair Zaki, Egyptian belly dancer and actress.
1954 – Oleg Romantsev, Russian footballer and coach.
1962 – Laila Elwi, Egyptian actress.
1967 – Hamid Steli, Iranian footballer.
1980 – Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer.
1986 – James Milner, English footballer.
1990 – Alberto Paloski, Italian footballer.
** Toni Kroos, German footballer.
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Death:
1656 – Ibn Yaqoub al-Makki, hijazi jurist, poet and writer.
1825 – Ferdinand I, king of the Two Sicilies.
1919 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany.
1941 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.
1960 – Albert Camus, French writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
1961 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933.
1965 – Thomas Stearns Eliot, American poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
1978 – Dawlat Abyad, Egyptian actress.
1990 – Hosni Fariz, Jordanian professor, poet, writer and translator.
1996 – Zhou Mingzhen, Chinese paleontologist.
2000 – Sultan Al Owais, Emirati poet, merchant and philanthropist.
2001 – Muhammad Rashid, Kuwaiti actor.
2006 – Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.
2007 – Sandro Salvadori, Italian footballer.
2010 – Johan Ferrie, president of Suriname.
** Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man who survived the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2011 – Nihad Sharif, Egyptian novelist.
** Ahmed Al-Yamani, Palestinian leader.
** Ali Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
** Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian who sparked the Tunisian revolution against the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
2021 – Elias Rahbani, Lebanese musician and songwriter.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ Independence Day in Burma.
