January 4, 2024
QUOTE
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
--T. S. Eliot
BIRTHDAYS
1643 (NS) – Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist
1838 – General Tom Thumb, Circus performer
1905 – Sterling Holloway, Actor
1935 – Floyd Patterson, Boxer
1937 – Dyan Cannon, Actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Dave Foley, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and producer
IN MEMORY
1877 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, Businessman and philanthropist
1965 – T. S. Eliot, American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate
1999 – Iron Eyes Cody, Actor and stuntman
2004 – John Toland, Historian and author
IN ON THIS DAY
46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years’ War.
1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.[13]
1958 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.