^B{^#!16!4 January^N! National day of Myanmar. Feast day of St Gregory of Langres, St Roger of Ellant, St Elizabeth Bayley Seton, St Phara∩dis, and St Rigobert of Reims.
^B{1884^B} The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London, UK. ^B{1885^B} The first successful surgical removal of an appendix was performed, in Iowa, US. ^B{1936^B} The first pop-music chart was compiled, based on record sales published in New York in Billboard. ^B{1944^B} The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British Fifth Army in Italy. ^B{1972^B} Rose Helibron became the first woman judge in Britain at the Old Bailey, London. ^B{1975^B} In Vietnam, the communist Khmer Rouge, began to besiege the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. ^B{1981^B} The Broadway show Frankenstein lost an estimated 2 million dollars, when it opened and closed on the same night. ^B{1991^B} The UN Security Council voted unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Louis Braille, French deviser of an alphabet for the blind, ^B{1809^B}; Augustus John, Welsh painter, ^B{1878^B}; Floyd Patterson, US boxer, ^B{1935^B}; Grace Bumbry, US opera singer, ^B{1937^B}; Dyan Cannon, US actress, ^B{1939^B}; John McLaughlin, British blues and jazz guitarist, ^B{1943^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, ^B{1958^B}; Albert Camus, French novelist and dramatist, ^B{1960^B}; T S Eliot, US poet and critic, ^B{1965^B}; Brian Gwynne Horrocks, British general, ^B{1985^B}; Christopher Isherwood, English novelist and dramatist, ^B{1986^B}.
