Today in History: 4 January

Jan 4 (Reuters) – Following are some of the major events to have occurred on January 4:

1908 – Mulai Hafid was proclaimed Sultan of Morocco at Fez.

1948 – The British colony of Burma was proclaimed an independent republic with U Thakin Nu as prime minister.

1964 – Pope Paul VI began a visit to the Holy Land, which included the first visit by a pope to Jerusalem.

1978 – Said Hammami, the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s representative in Britain, was assassinated in London.

1985 – Coptic Pope Shenouda III returns to Cairo after 40-month banishment to desert monastery.

1995 – Newt Gingrich was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Republican in the post in 40 years.

2004 – Rival Afghan factions attending the Loya Jirga national assembly agreed on a constitution, paving the way for free elections after nearly a quarter of a century of war.

2007 – World’s first bullet train outside Japan launched in Taiwan.

2007 – Nancy Pelosi, a liberal California Democrat, was sworn in as the first woman speaker of the U.S.

2010 – Grand opening of Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

2017 – London’s Natural History Museum bids farewell to Dippy the Dinosaur.

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