01-04-2006, 06:38 AM
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January 4th
1643 ~ Birthday of Isaac Newton, Scientist & Philosopher.
1710 ~ Birthday of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Composer.
1785 ~ Birthday of Jakob Grimm, German philologist, elder half of the Brothers Grimm.
1809 ~ Birthday of Louis Braille, Inventor of a writing system for the blind.
1948 ~ Burma gained its independence from the UK.
1951 ~ Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces recapture Seoul.
1960 ~ Death of Albert Camus, French Philosopher & Writer.
1961 ~ Death of Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian Physicist.
1967 ~ Donald Campbell died while trying to break the water speed record.
2004 ~ Spirit, the first of two NASA Mars Rovers, landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 GMT.
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