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4 January 2013 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 4 January 2013 was a Friday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Impossible” by James Arthur.
- Top Film of 2013
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2013 was Frozen.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 4 January is Capricorn.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 4 January 2013 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for January is Garnet.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 4 January 2013 was Last Quarter.
On this day: 4 January
- 2004 Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
- 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
- 2006 Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
- 2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
- 2010 The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.
Famous people born on 4 January
- Derrick Henry, American football player (born 1994)
- Charles Melton, American actor (born 1991)
- Victor Wembanyama, French basketball player (born 2004)
- Dafne Keen, British-Spanish actress (born 2005)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2013 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2013 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 1 April – Police Scotland begins operations, merging all the former forces in the country.
- 17 July – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in England and Wales after the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 receives Royal Assent.
- 27 August – David Cameron recalls Parliament from its summer recess to discuss responses to the Syrian crisis in the wake of a chemical weapons attack in Damascus.
Life in 2013
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.15
Loaf of Bread
£1.38
Average House
£168,607
Weekly Wage
£733.00
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