MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · January 4

THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 4

January 4 in history

1948 — Rangoon — Burma leaves everything

4 Jan 1948 — Burma, separated from India in 1937 and wrecked by the war, takes independence outside the Commonwealth altogether — at 4:20 a.m., an hour chosen by astrologers. Aung San, its architect, was assassinated six months before the day.

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