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January 3
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{{PAGENAME}} is the
3 (number) 3rd day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. 362 days (363 during
leap years) remain in the year after this day.
Events
*
1431 -
Joan of Arc is handed over to the
Bishop of Beauvais-Noyons-Senlis Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
*
1496 -
Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
*
1521 -
Pope Leo X excommunicates
Martin Luther in the
papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
*
1749 -
Benning Wentworth issues the first of the
New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of
Vermont.
*
1777 -
Battle of Princeton. American general
George Washington defeats British general
Charles Cornwallis.
*
1815 -
Austria,
United Kingdom Britain, and
France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against
Prussia and
Russia.
*
1823 -
Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in
Texas from the government of
Mexico.
*
1825 - Rensselaer School, the first engineering college in the U.S. is opened in
Troy,
New York. It is now known as
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
*
1833 -
United Kingdom Britain seizes control of the
Falkland Islands in the
South Atlantic.
*
1834 - The government of
Mexico imprisons
Stephen F. Austin in
Mexico City.
*
1848 -
Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first
President of Liberia president of the independent
African Republic of Liberia.
*
1852 - First Chinese arrive in
Hawaii.
*
1861 -
American Civil War:
Delaware votes not to secede from the
United States.
*
1868 - The
Japanese
Meiji dynasty is restored and the
Shogunate is abolished.
*
1871 -
Henry W. Bradley patents
oleomargarine.
*
1888 - The 91 cm
refracting telescope at
Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest
telescope in the world at the time.
* 1888 -
Marvin C. Stone patents the
drinking straw.
*
1899 - The first known use of the word
automobile, in an editorial in ''
The New York Times''.
*
1920 -
Curse of the Bambino: The
Boston Red Sox sell
Babe Ruth to the
New York Yankees for a sum of
United States dollar $125,000 and a loan of more than $300,000.
*
1921 - Turkey makes peace with
Armenia.
*
1924 -
English people English explorer
Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of
Tutankhamen in the
Valley of the Kings, near
Luxor,
Egypt.
*
1925 -
Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over
Italy.
*
1932 -
Martial law declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by
United Fruit.
*
1938 - The
March of Dimes is established by
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* 1938 - ''
Woman in White'' is first broadcast on the
NBC Red network. The program remains on the radio for the next 10 years.
*
1947 - Proceedings of the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
*
1951 - ''
Dragnet (drama) Dragnet'' is first broadcast on
NBC-TV.
*
1953 -
Frances Bolton and her son,
Oliver P. Bolton Oliver from
Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
*
1957 -
Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric
watch.
*
1958 - The
West Indies Federation is formed.
*
1959 -
Alaska is admitted as the 49th
U.S. state.
*
1961 - The
United States severs diplomatic relations with
Cuba.
* 1961 - The
SL-1, a government-run reactor near
Idaho Falls, Idaho leaks radiation, killing three workers.
*
1962 -
Pope John XXIII excommunicates
Fidel Castro.
*
1966 - The first
Acid Test at
the Fillmore,
San Francisco, California.
*
1973 -
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the
New York Yankees for $12 million to a 12-person syndicate led by
George Steinbrenner.
*
1983 -
Tony Dorsett of the
Dallas Cowboys makes the longest run from scrimmage in
NFL history.
*
CiTV launches on
ITV1 in the
United Kingdom UK.
*
1987 -
Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
*
1988 -
Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
*
1990 - Former leader of
Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
*
1991 - Hockey Hall of Famer
Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal.
* 1991 -
Gulf War: The British government announces the expulsion of 75 Iraqis from the country.
*
1993 - In
Moscow,
George H. W. Bush and
Boris Yeltsin sign the second
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
* 1993 - In an
American Football Conference AFC Wild Card game, the
Buffalo Bills comeback from a 35-3 defecit against the
Houston Oilers and win the game in overtime 41-38, the largest
The Comeback (American football) comeback in
National Football League NFL history.
*
1994 - An
Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk,
Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground.
*
1997 -
China announces it will spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the
Yangtze river Yangtze and
Yellow river Yellow river valleys.
*
1999 - The
Mars Polar Lander launches.
* 1999 - Israel detains, later to expel, 14 members of
Concerned Christians.
*
2000 - The last "
Peanuts" comic strip is created by
Charles Schulz.
*
2004 -
Flash Airlines Flight 604 Flight 604, a
Boeing 737 owned by
Flash Airlines, an
Egypt Egyptian airliner, plunges into the
Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard.
Births
*
106 BC -
Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d.
43 BC)
*
1196 -
Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d.
1231)
*
1710 -
Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d.
1796)
*
1719 -
Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (d.
1773)
*
1722 -
Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d.
1752)
*
1778 -
Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d.
1861)
*
1793 -
Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist and abolitionist (d.
1880)
*
1803 -
Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (d.
1857)
*
1840 -
Father Damien, Belgian missionary in Hawaii (d.
1889)
*
1855 -
Hubert Bland, English socialist (d.
1914)
*
1879 -
Grace Coolidge,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1957)
*
1883 -
Clement Attlee,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d.
1967)
*
1887 -
August Macke, German painter (d.
1914)
*
1892 -
J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer and philologist (d.
1973)
*
1894 -
Pola Negri, Polish actress (d.
1987)
* 1894 -
ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d.
1963)
*
1897 -
Marion Davies, American actress (d.
1961)
*
1901 -
Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (d.
1963)
*
1905 -
Anna May Wong, American actress (d.
1961)
*
1907 -
Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d.
1986)
*
1909 -
Victor Borge, Danish entertainer and humorist (d.
2000)
*
1911 -
John Sturges, American director (d.
1982)
*
1912 -
Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d.
2005)
*
1916 -
Betty Furness, American actress and consumer activist (d.
1994)
*
1917 -
Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d.
2004)
*
1920 -
Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d.
2001)
*
1924 -
Nell Rankin, American soprano (d.
2005)
* 1924 -
Hank Stram, American football coach and broadcaster (d.
2005)
*
1926 -
George Martin, English producer of
The Beatles' records
*
1929 -
Sergio Leone, Italian director (d.
1989)
*
1930 -
Robert Loggia, American actor
*
1932 -
Dabney Coleman, American actor
* 1932 -
Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d.
2005)
*
1936 -
Georgina Spelvin, actress
*
1939 -
Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
*
1941 -
Van Dyke Parks, American musician, composer
*
1942 -
John Thaw, British actor (d.
2002)
*
1945 -
Stephen Stills, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
*
1946 -
John Paul Jones (musician) John Paul Jones, English bassist (
Led Zeppelin)
* 1946 -
Cissy King, American dancer and singer, ''
The Lawrence Welk Show''
* 1946 -
Victoria Principal, American actress
*
1952 -
Jim Ross, Professional wrestling announcer
*
1956 -
Mel Gibson, Australian actor and director
*
1957 -
Bojan Krizaj Bojan Križ, Slovenian skier
*
1959 -
Rafael Arraiz Venezuelan writer
*
1960 -
Joan Chen, Chinese actress
*
1966 -
Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
*
1969 -
Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
*
1975 -
Jason Marsden, American actor
* 1975 -
Danica McKellar, American actress
* 1975 -
Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (
Daft Punk)
*
1976 -
Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor
*
1977 -
Lee Bowyer, English footballer
*
1978 -
Mike York, American ice hockey player
*
1980 -
David Tyree, American football player
*
1981 -
Eli Manning, American football player
*
1982 -
Park Ji-yoon, Korean pop singer
*
1983 - Daniel Thomas, New Zealand Scientist
*
1989 -
Alex D. Linz, American actor
Deaths
*
722 -
Empress Gemmei of Japan (b.
661)
*
1322 - King
Philip V of France (b.
1293)
*
1437 -
Catherine of Valois, queen of
Henry V of England (b.
1401)
*
1543 -
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b.
1499)
*
1641 -
Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer
*
1656 -
Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b.
1584)
*
1670 -
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b.
1608)
*
1690 -
Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b.
1615)
*
1779 -
Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b.
1712)
*
1785 -
Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b.
1706)
*
1795 -
Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b.
1730)
*
1826 -
Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b.
1770)
*
1875 -
Pierre Larousse, French editor and encyclopedist (b.
1817)
*
1923 -
Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b.
1883)
*
1927 -
Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b.
1856)
*
1933 -
Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b.
1896)
*
1945 -
Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b.
1877)
* 1945 -
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b.
1879)
*
1946 -
William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b.
1906)
*
1950 -
Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b.
1884)
*
1956 -
Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b.
1864)
*
1963 -
Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b.
1910)
*
1967 -
Mary Garden, Scottish soprano (b.
1874)
* 1967 -
Jack Ruby, American killer of
Lee Harvey Oswald (b.
1911)
*
1979 -
Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b.
1887)
*
1980 -
Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist and author (b.
1910)
*
1981 -
Princess Alice of Albany (b.
1883)
*
1988 -
Rose Ausländer, German poet (b.
1901)
*
1992 - Dame
Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b.
1897)
*
2001 -
José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (b.
1918)
*
2002 -
Esquivel, Mexican band leader and composer (b.
1918)
* 2002 -
Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b.
1923)
*
2003 -
Sid Gillman, American football coach (b.
1911)
*
2004 -
Leon Wagner, baseball player (b.
1934)
*
2005 -
Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b.
1917)
* 2005 -
JN Dixit, Indian government official (b.
1936)
* 2005 -
Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b.
1917)
*
2006 -
Bill Skate,
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b.
1954)
Holidays and observances
*
Feast day of
Genevieve St Genevieve
*
Roman Empire - Festival in honour of
Pax (mythology) Pax
*The tenth night and ninth
twelvetide day of Christmas in Western
Christianity
*In
astronomy the best date to view the
Quadrantids meteor shower.
*In
astronomy the approximate date of
Earth's
perihelion.
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
NY Times: On this day
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January 2 -
January 4 -
December 3 -
February 3 —
Historical anniversaries listing of all days
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ang:3 Æfterra Gēola
ar:3 يناير
ast:3 de xineru
be:3 Ñ?тудзенÑ?
bg:3 Ñ?нуари
bs:3. januar
ca:3 de gener
ceb:Enero 3
cs:3. leden
csb:3 stëcznika
cy:3 Ionawr
da:3. januar
de:3. Januar
el:3 ΙανουαÏ?ίου
eo:3-a de januaro
es:3 de enero
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