Notable Historical Events on January 3rd
January 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
236 |
St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
269 |
St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
936 |
Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII |
1338 |
Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent |
1407 |
Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht |
1431 |
Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon |
1496 |
Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. |
1521 |
Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church |
1638 |
Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel" |
1638 |
Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens |
1667 |
Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland |
1746 |
Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14] |
1749 |
Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont. |
1750 |
Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth |
1752 |
East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed |
1777 |
General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, NJ |
1780 |
Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung |
1823 |
Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico. |
1825 |
Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community |
1831 |
1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford, Penn |
1833 |
Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic |
1834 |
The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City. |
1840 |
1st deep sea sounding |
1848 |
Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of the independent African Republic of Liberia. |
1852 |
1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii |
1861 |
Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy |
1861 |
US Ft Pulaski & Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia |
1862 |
Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester |
1865 |
Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match |
1868 |
Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors |
1870 |
Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883 |
1871 |
Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY |
1872 |
1st patent list issued by US Patent Office |
1888 |
1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC |
1889 |
Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood |
1890 |
1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin |
1896 |
Emperor Wilhelm congratulates Pres Kruger on the Jameson Raid |
1899 |
The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times. |
1900 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin |
1900 |
Perihelion Passage |
1902 |
Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, v England at MCG |
1910 |
British miners strike for 8 hour working day |
1911 |
US postal savings bank inaugurated |
1911 |
The Government of India announces that emigration to Natal, Southern Africa, is prohibited with effect from 1 July |
1912 |
South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free |
1912 |
10th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Christchurch (5-0) |
1914 |
Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in NYC |
1918 |
US employment service opens as a unit of Dept of Labor |
1920 |
Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres |
1921 |
Turkey makes peace with Armenia |
1922 |
1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar |
1925 |
Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator |
1926 |
Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator |
1929 |
27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres |
1929 |
Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century |
1931 |
Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record) |
1932 |
Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit. |
1933 |
Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States. |
1938 |
March of Dimes established to fight polio |
1939 |
Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives |
1940 |
WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV |
1941 |
Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease) |
1941 |
Italian counter offensive in Albania |
1941 |
Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia |
1942 |
American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms |
1943 |
1st missing persons telecast (NYC) |
1943 |
Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa |
1944 |
World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. |
1945 |
Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab |
1945 |
British Premier Winston Churchill visits France |
1945 |
Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room |
1945 |
Greek General Plastiras forms government |
1945 |
John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in NYC |
1945 |
US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa |
1946 |
As a reward for his wartime cooperation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey commutes Charles "Lucky" Luciano's pandering sentence on condition that he does not resist deportation to Italy |
1947 |
1st opening session of Congress to be televised |
1947 |
William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee |
1948 |
Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG |
1949 |
"Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV |
1951 |
9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents |
1951 |
Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950) |
1952 |
"Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV |
1952 |
Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38 |
1953 |
Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. |
1955 |
Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama |
1956 |
A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. |
1957 |
1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa |
1958 |
Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland |
1958 |
Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town |
1958 |
The West Indies Federation is formed. |
1959 |
Alaska admitted as 49th US state |
1961 |
Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor |
1961 |
US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
1962 |
Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome |
1962 |
Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro |
1963 |
WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1964 |
Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You" |
1966 |
Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE |
1967 |
"Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes |
1967 |
Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion |
1967 |
WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ |
1969 |
Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress |
1970 |
"Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances |
1970 |
"Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances |
1970 |
Marxist government takes over in Congo |
1970 |
WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
"President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 perfs |
1971 |
Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game |
1971 |
Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, which injures over 60 people |
1973 |
George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million |
1974 |
Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain |
1974 |
Burma accepts its constitution |
1974 |
Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London |
1974 |
Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC |
1974 |
NY Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager |
1976 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
Apple Computer, Inc incorporates |
1977 |
Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games) |
1978 |
Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win |
1980 |
Gold hits record $634 an ounce |
1981 |
55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75) |
1981 |
Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr |
1981 |
Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG |
1981 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91) |
1983 |
Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota |
1984 |
Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson |
1985 |
Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings |
1985 |
Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews |
1987 |
"Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances |
1987 |
"Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1987 |
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin |
1988 |
Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut |
1988 |
Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century |
1989 |
Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!) |
1989 |
Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement |
1990 |
Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities |
1991 |
Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years |
1991 |
LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders |
1992 |
32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter |
1992 |
Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* v India at Sydney |
1993 |
"Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 perfs |
1993 |
"Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 perfs |
1993 |
"Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 perfs |
1993 |
"Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances |
1993 |
"Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances |
1993 |
Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months |
1993 |
"The Comeback", QB Frank Reich led the Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit, to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game, the greatest comeback ever in pro football history |
1994 |
"Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 13 performances |
1994 |
100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt |
1994 |
Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed |
1994 |
35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field |
1994 |
Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, becomes effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994 |
1997 |
Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV |
1997 |
Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick v England at Harare |
1997 |
Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series v England 3-0 |
1997 |
The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys. |
1998 |
"Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances |
1998 |
Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke |
1999 |
Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians. |
1999 |
The Mars Polar Lander was launched. |
2004 |
Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board. |
2004 |
After hosting the show for over 30 years, Casey Kasem gives up the hosting duties of "American Top 40" to Ryan Seacrest |
2005 |
Craig Ferguson becomes the host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS |
2007 |
National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport. |
2009 |
Israeli ground forces invade Gaza. |
2013 |
27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq |
2016 |
Armed protesters take over federal wildlife refuge in Oregon |
2016 |
Mexican mayor slain one day after taking office |
2016 |
Four spectators at Dakar Rally injured by race car |
2016 |
6.7-magnitude earthquake shakes area of northeastern India |
2016 |
Saudi Arabia severs ties with Iran as Mideast protests rage |
2016 |
Jimmy Butler of the Chicago Bulls breaks Michael Jordan's team record for points in a half Butlerscored 40 points in the second half. The Bulls won the game 115-113 over the Toronto Raptors. |
2017 |
Storms Kill 4, Damage Buildings Across Southern States |
2017 |
Islamic State suicide bomber kills 36 in Baghdad market |
2018 |
North Korean leader orders border hotline with South Korea reopened on Wednesday |
2018 |
US threatens to withhold aid cash to Palestinians |
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