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On this day: January 4

Published On: Jan 03 2013 05:04:16 PM CST Updated On: Jan 04 2013 01:00:00 AM CST

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 - Casey Johnson — 28 / 29

Stephen Chernin/Reuters

2010: Casey Johnson, a socialite and heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, is found dead at the age of 30 in her West Hollywood, Calif., home. Her death is later ruled the result of diabetic ketoacidosis, stemming from a shortage of insulin.

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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Bill and Hillary Clinton — Lucas Jackson/Reuters

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Michael Froman, President Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker — Pool

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Apple Lisa — Auction Team Breker

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Michelle Obama, official portrait — Chuck Kennedy/The White House

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Moore Oklahoma tornado damage — REUTERS/Richard Rowe

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NY Rep — Brendan McDermid/Reuters

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Golden Globes Bradley Cooper — JASON REDMOND / Reuters

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Joplin house damaged by tornado — Ed Zurga/Reuters

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House destroyed in Moore, Okla — Rebecca Vitsmun/iReport

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Moore, Okla, tornado damage — Madi Alexander

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Paycheck, check, payroll — iStock

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Charles Lindbergh, Spirit of St. Louis — Library of Congress

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Vin Diesel in Fast & Furious 6 — Universal Pictures

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Ray Manzarek, The Doors, 2009 — TriviaKing/Wikimedia Commons

Notable deaths of 2013

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