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On this day: January 4

POSTED: 03:04 PM PST Jan 03, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 03, 2013

Billboard publishes its first music chart, Sputnik falls to Earth, The Beatles record together for the last time, and Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the House, all on this day.

OTD January 4 - Sputnik — 12 / 29

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1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth after spending three months in orbit. When Russia launched the satellite on Oct. 4, 1957, it became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth, setting off the Cold War-era "Space Race" between America and the Soviets.

OTD January 4 - Louis Braille

OTD January 4 - Elizabeth Ann Seton

OTD January 4 - Samuel Colt

OTD January 4 - New York Stock Exchange

OTD January 4 - Utah

OTD January 4 - Scouting

OTD January 4 - Don Shula

OTD January 4 - Floyd Patterson

OTD January 4 - Billboard hit parade

OTD January 4 - Dyan Cannon

OTD January 4 - Korean War

OTD January 4 - Sputnik

OTD January 4 - Luna 1

OTD January 4 - Albert Camus

OTD January 4 - Michael Stipe

OTD January 4 - Dave Foley

OTD January 4 - Great Society

OTD January 4 - Julia Ormond

OTD January 4 - TS Eliot

OTD January 4 - The Beatles

OTD January 4 - Richard Nixon

OTD January 4 - Reagan CIA

OTD January 4 - Night Court

OTD January 4 - Newt Gingrich

OTD January 4 - Jesse Ventura

OTD January 4 - Spirit Mars Rover

OTD January 4 - Nancy Pelosi

OTD January 4 - Casey Johnson

OTD January 4 - Burj Khalifa

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