Historical Events on January 4.

1847: Samuel Colt sold the first revolver to the US government.

1881: Lokmanya Tilak started the Kesari newspaper in Pune.

1885: First successful appendix removal surgery performed by Dr. William W. Grant performed on Mary Gartside.

1932: Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru were arrested in Bombay in an attempt to resume the civil disobedience movement.

1944: Hitler’s ordinance was issued to enlist all boys and girls above the age of 10 in the service of the nation.

1954: Meherchand Mahajan became the 3rd Chief Justice of India.

1958: Sputnik-1, the first man-made satellite, returned to Earth.

1962: The first driverless train opened in New York, USA.

2004: Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, landed successfully on Mars.

 

Famous Birthdays and Birth Anniversaries – January 4.

1809: Louis Braille, a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired.

1813: Sir Isaac Pitman, a teacher of the English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.

1889: M. Patanjali Shastri, the 2nd chief justice of India.

1904:  S. S. Vasan, an Indian journalist, writer, advertiser, film producer, director, and business tycoon.

1914: Indira Sant, a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.

1925: Pradeep Kumar, an Indian actor.

1925: Gopaldas Neeraj, an Indian poet and author of Hindi literature.

1931: Nirupa Roy, an Indian actress.

1941: Kalpnath Rai, an Indian politician.

1952: Justice T. S. Thakur, the 43ʳᵈ Chief Justice of India.

1957: Gurdas Maan, an Indian singer, songwriter, choreographer, and actor mainly associated with Punjabi language music and films.

 

Death Anniversaries of Famous People– January 4.

1852: Gabriel Cramer, a Genevan mathematician.

1907: Govardhanram Tripathi, an Indian Gujarati language novelist. 

1960: Albert Camus, a French philosopher, author, and journalist.

1961: Erwin Schrödinger, a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist.

1965: T. S. Eliot, an American-born British poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic, and editor. 

1994: R. D. Burman, an Indian music director.

2011: Salman Taseer, a Pakistani businessman, and a liberal politician.