Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 4

January 4:

Flag of Burma, 1948

• 871 - At the Battle of Reading, Ethelred of Wessex was defeated by a Danish invasion army.
• 1493 - Christopher Columbus left the New World, ending his first journey.
• 1884 - The Fabian Society was founded in London.
• 1948 - Thakin Nu of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League presided over the independence of Burma (now Myanmar) from the British Empire.
• 2004 - The NASA Mars Rover Spirit landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

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