January 3

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January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 362 days remaining (363 in leap years).

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther.
1749 - Benning Wentworth issued 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, 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
1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City
1840 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh.
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.
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.
1899 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times
1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1926 - General Theodorus P�ngulos names himself dictator of Greece
1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1947 - Proceedings of the United States Congress are televised for the first time.
1951 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time (NBC).
1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
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 at the installation. The radiation is contained.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1966 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California.
1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.
1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk, Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground
1997 - NBC's Today show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time.
2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard.
2004 - Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars.

Births

106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
1793 - Lucretia Mott, women's rights activist and abolitionist (d. 1880)
1803 - Douglas Jerrold, British dramatic playwright and political satirist (d. 1857)
1829 - Konrad Duden, philologist (d. 1911)
1840 - Father Damien, missionary priest in Hawai'i (d. 1888)
1855 - Hubert Bland, socialist and co-founder of Fabian Society (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, painter (d. 1914)
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, writer and philologist (d. 1973)
1897 - Pola Negri, actress (d. 1987)
1897 - Marion Davies, actress (d. 1961)
1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
1905 - Anna May Wong, actress (d. 1961)
1907 - Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)
1909 - Victor Borge, entertainer and humorist (d. 2000)
1911 - John Sturges, director
1916 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist
1924 - Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster
1926 - George Martin, "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles' records
1929 - Sergio Leone, director (d. 1989)
1930 - Robert Loggia, actor
1932 - Dabney Coleman, actor
1936 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
1939 - Bobby Hull, ice hockey player
1941 - Van Dyke Parks, musician, composer
1942 - John Thaw, actor (d. 2002)
1945 - Stephen Stills, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 - Victoria Principal, actress
1946 - John Paul Jones, bassist from Led Zeppelin
1956 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
1957 - Bojan Kri?aj, Slovenian alpine skier
1960 - Joan Chen, actress
1966 - Chetan Sharma, Indian cricketer
1969 - Michael Schumacher, Formula One driver
1975 - Danica McKellar, actress (The Wonder Years)
1976 - Jason Marsden, actor
1981 - Polly Klaas, young victim of crime (d. 1993)
1982 - Eli Manning, American football quarterback
1989 - Alex D. Linz, actor

Deaths

1322 - Philip V, king of France (b. 1293)
1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, first European to visit California
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. ca. 1619)
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer (b. 1706)
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter (b. 1730)
1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor and encyclopedist (b. 1817)
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
1933 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (b. 1896)
1945 - Edgar Cayce, psychic (b. 1877)
1946 - William Joyce (executed), Nazi propagandist (b. 1906)
1950 - Emil Jannings, actor (b. 1884)
1967 - Jack Ruby, convicted killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
1979 - Conrad Hilton, hotelier (b. 1887)
1980 - Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of Born Free (b. 1910)
1981- Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Albany, the last grandchild of Queen Victoria (b. 1883)
1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress
2002 - Freddy Heineken, CEO of the beer brewery (b. 1923)
2003 - Jos� Maria Gironella, author and poet

Holidays and observances

Feast day of St Genevieve
Roman Empire - Festival in honour of Pax
The tenth day of Christmas in Western Christianity

January 2 - January 4 - December 3 - February 3 - listing of all days

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