January 4th (2004) was a Sunday. It's the 3rd day of the year (4th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 4th January, 2004
» Spirit rover e.g 'Spirit', a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 Coordinated Universal Time known as UTC.
» Mikheil Saakashvili is Georgian presidential election, 2004 e.g elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
January 4th Famous Deaths for 2004
» Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
» Brian Gibson (director) named Brian Gibson, English director (b. 1944)
» Jake Hess, American singer (The Statesmen Quartet and Masters V) (b. 1927)
» Jeff Nuttall, English actor, poet, and painter (b. 1933)
» John Toland (author) called John Toland, American historian and author (b. 1912)
January 4th Holidays in History
» Christian Calendar of saints named Feast Day:
» Elizabeth Ann Seton
» January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Public holidays in Angola e.g Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression (Angola)
» Public holidays in the Democratic Republic of the Congo known as Day of the Martyrs (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
» Independence Day (Burma) e.g Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Burma from the United Kingdom in 1948.
» Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People named Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)