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Events on January 4

• 1892 Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung publishes its first issue.
• 1933 Franz von Papen meets Adolf Hitler at the Cologne home of banker Kurt Freiherr von Schröder for secret negotiations, in which they agree on a joint takeover of power and on Hitler becoming Reich Chancellor.
• 1936 The U.S. magazine Billboard publishes the world's first hit parade of popular music titles.
• 1947 The first issue of the political magazine Der Spiegel appears in the Anzeiger-Hochhaus in Hanover as the successor to the magazine Diese Woche.
• 1954 Duisburg becomes the first German city to install parking meters.
• 1958 92 days after its launch, the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 burns up as it reenters Earth's atmosphere, marking the beginning of the space age.
• 1961 The final volume of the German Dictionary, begun by the Brothers Grimm 123 years earlier, is published.
• 1968 The German feature film Let's Go! starring Uschi Glas premieres.
• 1969 ZDF broadcasts Länderspiegel for the first time.
• 1970 Filming for the Beatles' final album Let It Be is completed.
• 2004 After a travel time of nearly seven months, the landing unit of the U.S. space probe Spirit lands in the Gusev Crater on Mars.
• 2010 With official ceremonies, the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, is inaugurated in Dubai

Born on January 4

• 1881 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor
• 1900 James Bond, American ornithologist
• 1910 Hilde Schrader, German swimmer
• 1921 Eberhard Cohrs, German comedian and actor
• 1940 Helmut Jahn, German-American architect
• 1940 Brian D. Josephson, British physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1940 Gao Xingjian, Chinese-French novelist, translator, playwright, director, critic and artist, Nobel laureate
• 1960 Michael Stipe, American singer and musician
• 1990 Toni Kroos, German footballer
• 1991 Pascal Bodmer, German ski jumper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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