January 4, 1973 (Thursday)
- Beginning of the 29th Canadian Parliament.
- The pilot episode of the longest-running TV comedy series in the world Last of the Summer Wine is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- An annular solar eclipse takes place.
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)