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On this day: January 4

POSTED: 04:04 PM MST Jan 03, 2013 UPDATED: 12:00 AM MST Jan 04, 2013

Billboard publishes its first music chart, Sputnik falls to Earth, The Beatles record together for the last time, and Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the House, all on this day.

OTD January 4 - Louis Braille — 1 / 29

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1809: Louis Braille, teacher of the blind and inventor of braille, is born in Coupvray, France.

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