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Today is Monday,
January 04th
The 004th day of 2010.
There are 361 days left in the year.
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Today's Highlights in History
On Jan. 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined the goals of his ''Great Society'' in his State of the Union address.
On Jan. 4, 1896, Everett McKinley Dirksen, Republican leader of the Senate from 1959-1969, was born.
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On this date in:
1896 - Utah was admitted to the Union as the 45th state.
1948 - Britain granted independence to Burma.
1951 - North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul during the Korean War.
1960 - Nobel Prize-winning French author Albert Camus died in a car accident at age 46.
1965 - Poet T.S. Eliot died at age 76.
1974 - President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1990 - Charles Stuart, who had claimed a gunman had killed his pregnant wife and wounded him, leaped to his death from a Boston Harbor bridge after he became a suspect.
1990 - Deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega was arraigned in federal district court in Miami on drug-trafficking charges.
1995 - The 104th Congress convened, the first entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era; Newt Gingrich was elected speaker of the House.
1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
2004 - Afghans approved a new constitution.
2004 - Georgians overwhelmingly elected Mikhail Saakashvili president, two months after he'd led protests that forced Eduard Shevardnadze to step down.
2006 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke and his powers were transferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert.
2007 - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., became the first female speaker of the House.
2008 - The government reported that the nation's jobless rate hit 5 percent in December 2007, a two-year high, fanning recession fears.
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Note: Above Info via The New York Times