January 4, is:
On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . eleven pipers piping.
For the significance of each day of Christmas, see: Good Housekeeping.com The 11 Pipers Piping are the eleven faithful apostles. – Peter, Andrew, James, John, Phillip, Nathanael (also called Bartholomew), Matthew (also called Levi), Thomas, James the Less, Simon, and Jude (also called Thaddeus).
World Braille Day in honor of Louis Braille (1809), French educator of the blind, developer of the Braille system of printing and writing.
National Spaghetti Day
Birthday of Sir Isaac Newton (January 4, 1643), physicist and mathematician; leader in the seventeenth century scientific revolution; discoverer of the law of gravity.
Birthday of Jacob Grimm (January 4, 1785), German writer who, with his brother, William, published the famous Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
Publication of Federalist Paper #34: Concerning the General Power of Taxation written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788. Hamilton’s aim is to demonstrate that a government must have unlimited power of taxation for such circumstances as war and natural disaster. He argues that the state governments, which share taxation rights with the federal government, will serve as a balance and prevent abuse of such powers. He argues, further, that the federal government will always incur the greatest expenses, should have the greatest body to draw taxes from, and require a “greater power of taxation than the states.”
Samuel Colt sold his first revolver pistol to the United States government in 1847.
Utah Admission Day. On this date in 1896 Utah became the forty-fifth state.
- Capital: Salt Lake City
- Nickname: Beehive State
- Animal: Rocky Mountain Elk
- Astronomical Symbol: Beehive Cluster
- Bird: Seagull
- Cooking Pot: Dutch Oven
- Dance: Square dance
- Firearm: Browning M1911
- Fish: Bonneville Cutthroat Trout
- Flower: Sego Lily
- Fossil: Allosaurus
- Fruit: Cherry
- Gem: Topaz
- Grass: Indian Ricegrass
- Hymn: Utah, We Love Thee
- Insect: Honey Bee
- Language: English
- Mineral: Copper
- Motto: Industry
- Rock: Coal
- Snack: Jell-O
- Tree: Quaking Aspen
- Vegetable: Spanish sweet onion
See our page for Utah for more interesting facts and trivia about Utah.
1925 – French psychologist Emil Coué brought his self-esteem therapy to US “Every day in every way I am getting better and better”.
1954: A young truck driver named Elvis Presley entered the Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, TN, ostensibly to record a song for his mother’s birthday (which was, in reality, many months away). He recorded “Casual Love Affair” and “I’ll Never Stand in Your Way.” It was this recording that would lead MRS head Sam Phillips to call Presley back to record for his Sun Records label.
1958 – 
Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in Oct. 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed his “Great Society” during a speech at Ohio University, then unveiled the program in greater detail at an appearance at University of Michigan. The main goals were the elimination of poverty and the elimination of racial injustice.
2007 – The 110th United States Congress convened electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.