On this day: January 4

January 4: Independence Day in Myanmar (1948)

Palace of Whitehall

• 1698 – Most of London's Palace of Whitehall (pictured), the main residence of the English monarchs dating from 1530, was destroyed by fire.
• 1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regained his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later became a national bestseller.
• 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean troops captured Seoul.
• 1970 – A magnitude 7.5 M_sd earthquake struck Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people and spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.
• 2010 – The Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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