History for January 4 - On-This-Day.com Sir Isaac Newton 1643 (N.S.) - Physicist, mathematician, Jakob Grimm 1785, Louis Braille 1809 - Inventor of a reading system for the blind. Jane Wyman 1917 - Actress, first wife of Ronald Reagan, Floyd Patterson 1935 - Heavyweight boxing champion, Barbara Ann Cochran 1951 1884 - The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London. 1965 - In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the "Great Society."
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