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January 3

From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.

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

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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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.
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.
1870 - The Brooklyn Bridge begins to be built.
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.
1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
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 D. Roosevelt.
1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. 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.
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.
1991 - Hockey hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal.
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.