What Happened on January 4, 2005

• Adam Gilchrist of Australia becomes the most prolific century scoring wicket keeper in cricket history when he smashes 113 from just 120 balls in the 3rd Test against Pakistan in Sydney
• College Football, 7th BCS National Championship, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens: #1 Southern California beats #2 Oklahoma, 55-19, at 71st Orange Bowl (USC later vacates Championship)

• Dafne Keen, British-Spanish actress (Laura-Logan; Lyra Belacqua- His Dark Materials), born in Madrid, Spain

• Alton Tobey, American artist, dies at 90
• Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
• Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
• Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
• Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
• Robert Christiani, West Indian cricket batsman (22 Tests, 1 x 100, 4 x 50, HS 107; British Guiana), dies at 84
• Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian of economic thought (The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers), dies at 85

Holidays: Day after New Year's Day (New Zealand), New Year Holiday (United Kingdom)

• #1 Song: Let Me Love You - Mario
• #1 Song: Against All Odds - Steve Brookstein