Today, January 4<\/p>\n
1581 \u2013 Irish archbishop and historian James Ussher is born in Dublin<\/p>\n
1896 \u2013 Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state<\/p>\n
1903 \u2013 Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison Film Company makes a movie of it.<\/p>\n
1987 \u2013 The Amtrak 94 Colonial, <\/em>en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 2 crew members, 14 passengers and injuring over 600 more.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 2 Libyan MiG-23 “Floggers<\/em>” are shot down by US Navy F-14 Tomcats<\/em> over the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean Sea<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 U.S. Army Sergeant Nathan Ross Chapman is the first service member killed in action in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 The NASA Mars rover Spirit<\/em>, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 The 163 story Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world at 2,722 feet, officially opens in Dubai.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, January 4 1581 \u2013 Irish archbishop and historian James Ussher is born in Dublin 1896 \u2013 Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state 1903 \u2013 Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison Film Company makes a movie of it. 1987 \u2013 The Amtrak 94 Colonial, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63527"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89017,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63527\/revisions\/89017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}