Visitors look a Dippy the diplodocus at the Natural History Museum in London, Britain January 4, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Jan 4
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1908 - Mulai Hafid was proclaimed Sultan of Morocco at Fez.
1948 - The British colony of Burma was proclaimed an independent republic with U Thakin Nu as prime minister.
1964 - Pope Paul VI began a visit to the Holy Land, which included the first visit by a pope to Jerusalem.
1978 - Said Hammami, the Palestine Liberation Organisation's representative in Britain, was assassinated in London.
1985 - Coptic Pope Shenouda III returns to Cairo after 40-month banishment to desert monastery.
1995 - Newt Gingrich was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Republican in the post in 40 years.
2004 - Rival Afghan factions attending the Loya Jirga national assembly agreed on a constitution, paving the way for free elections after nearly a quarter of a century of war.
2007 - World's first bullet train outside Japan launched in Taiwan.
2007 - Nancy Pelosi, a liberal California Democrat, was sworn in as the first woman speaker of the U.S.
2010 - Grand opening of Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
2017 - London's Natural History Museum bids farewell to Dippy the Dinosaur.
