January 3
January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 362 days remaining (363 in leap years ).
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 .
1920 - Curse of the Bambino : The Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for a sum of $ 125,000 and a loan of more than $300,000.
1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy .
1926 - General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator of Greece .
1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1951 - Dragnet television for the first time (NBC ).
1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch .
1958 - West Indies Federation 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 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.
2000 - The last Peanuts comic strip was created by Charles Schulz .
2004 - Flight 604 , a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines , an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea , killing all 148 aboard.
Births
106 BC - Cicero , Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC )
1793 - Lucretia Mott , American women's rights activist and abolitionist (d. 1880 )
1803 - Douglas William Jerrold , British dramatic playwright and political satirist (d. 1857 )
1829 - Konrad Duden , philologist (d. 1911 )
1840 - Father Damien , Belgian missionary priest in Hawai'i (d. 1889 )
1855 - Hubert Bland , English 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 , German painter (d. 1914 )
1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien , South African-born writer and philologist (d. 1973 )
1894 - Pola Negri , Polish actress (d. 1987 )
1897 - Marion Davies , American actress (d. 1961 )
1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem , President of South Vietnam (d. 1963 )
1905 - Anna May Wong , Chinese-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 )
1916 - Betty Furness , American actress and consumer activist (d. 1994 )
1920 - Renato Carosone , Italian musician and singer (d. 2001 )
1924 - Hank Stram , American football coach and broadcaster
1924 - Nell Rankin , American soprano (d. 2005 )
1926 - George Martin , "5th Beatle": producer of The Beatles ' records
1929 - Sergio Leone , Italian director (d. 1989 )
1930 - Robert Loggia , American actor
1932 - Dabney Coleman , American actor
1936 - Georgina Spelvin , pornographic film actress
1939 - Bobby Hull , Canadian ice 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 - Victoria Principal , American actress
1946 - John Paul Jones , English bassist from Led Zeppelin
1956 - Mel Gibson , Australian actor and director
1957 - Bojan Križaj , Slovenian alpine skier
1960 - Joan Chen , Chinese actress
1966 - Chetan Sharma , Indian cricketer
1968 - Shannon Sturges , American actress
1969 - Michael Schumacher , German Formula One driver
1975 - Danica McKellar , American actress
1975 - Jason Marsden , American actor
1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez , American actor
1977 - Alan Rogers , English footballer
1981 - Polly Klaas , young victim of crime (d. 1993 )
1981 - Eli Manning , American football player
1989 - Alex D. Linz , American actor
Deaths
1322 - Philip V , king of France (b. 1293 )
1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo , first European to visit California (b. 1499 )
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks , English astronomer (b. ca. 1619 )
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi , Italian composer (b. 1706 )
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood , English potter (b. 1730 )
1875 - Pierre Larousse , French editor and encyclopedist (b. 1817 )
1881 - Anna McNeill Whistler , Whistler's mother (b. 1804 )
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek , Czech novelist (b. 1883 )
1933 - Jack Pickford , Canadian actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy" (b. 1896 )
1945 - Edgar Cayce , American psychic (b. 1877 )
1946 - William Joyce , American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906 )
1950 - Emil Jannings , Swiss actor (b. 1884 )
1967 - Jack Ruby , convicted killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911 )
1979 - Conrad Hilton , American hotelier (b. 1887 )
1980 - Joy Adamson , Czech conservationist and author (b. 1910 )
1981 - Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Albany , the last grandchild of Queen Victoria (b. 1883 )
1992 - Dame Judith Anderson , Australian actress (b. 1897 )
2001 - José Greco , flamenco dancer (b. 1918 )
2002 - Freddy Heineken , Dutch CEO of the beer brewery (b. 1923 )
2003 - Sid Gillman , American football coach (b. 1911 )
2004 - Leon Wagner , MLB All-Star (b. 1934 )
2005 :
Holidays and observances
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