Template:Selected anniversaries/January 4

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1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.

1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

1809 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (d. 1852)

1839 – Carl Humann, German archaeologist, architect, and engineer (d. 1896)

1752 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1704)


1882 – John William Draper, English-American physician, chemist, and photographer (b. 1811)