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On January the 4th
2007 
Nancy Pelosi became the first female speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States .
1998 
Islamic guerrillas massacred 170 civilians in three remote villages of Algeria.
1990 
In the Sindh province of Pakistan a passenger train collided a freight train resulting in the death of 300 people.
1989 
Two Libyan MiG-23 were shot down by a pair of American Navy F-14's during an aerial confrontation.
1965 
American-born writer, T. S. Eliot, died at the age of 77. He was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century and in 1948 won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1927 he was given British citizenship and converted to Anglicanism.
1957 
The last issue of Collier's Weekly magazine was published. It was first published in 1888 and was printed for 69 years. It was the first investigative reporting magazine in the world.
1948 
Burma gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1936 
Billboard magazine published its first pop music charts. The charts remain today as one of the most respectable sources for music ratings.
1900 
American ornithologist, James Bond, was born in Philadelphia. He was the inspiration for the name that writer, Ian Fleming, used for his fictional spy James Bond.
1847 
Samuel Colt sold his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1643 
Sir Isaac Newton was born in in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England.
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