This Day in History
January 4, 2017 Leave a comment
| AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
| 1796 |
| Congress accepts Colors of the French Republic » |
| AUTOMOTIVE |
| 1996 |
| GM announces its electric car » |
| CIVIL WAR |
| 1863 |
| Confederate General Roger Hanson dies » |
| COLD WAR |
| 1950 |
| The God That Failed published » |
| CRIME |
| 1964 |
| Boston Strangler strikes again » |
| DISASTER |
| 1990 |
| Trains collide in Pakistan » |
| GENERAL INTEREST |
| 1896 |
| Utah enters the Union » |
| 1974 |
| President Nixon refuses to hand over tapes » |
| 1987 |
| Segovia begins final U.S. tour » |
| 1995 |
| 104th Congress under Republican control » |
| HOLLYWOOD |
| 2003 |
| National Society of Film Critics honors The Pianist » |
| LITERARY |
| 1785 |
| Jacob Grimm is born » |
| 1965 |
| Poet T.S. Eliot dies in London » |
| MUSIC |
| 1964 |
| Bobby Vinton tops the pop charts with the last #1 single of the pre-Beatles era » |
| OLD WEST |
| 1847 |
| Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. government » |
| PRESIDENTIAL |
| 1965 |
| L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address » |
| SPORTS |
| 2006 |
| Vince Young leads Texas over USC in the Rose Bowl » |
| VIETNAM WAR |
| 1965 |
| Johnson reaffirms commitment to South Vietnam » |
| 1974 |
| Thieu announces war has resumed » |
| WORLD WAR I |
| 1913 |
| Alfred von Schlieffen dies » |
| WORLD WAR II |
| 1944 |
| United States begins supplying guerrilla forces |
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