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What happened in history on this day: January 3?
On January 3 in ...
- 1825 - US Senate confirms Samuel Moore as Mint director.
- 1861 - Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy.
- 1861 - Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia.
- 1862 - Romney Campaign - Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester.
- 1872 - First patent list issued by US Patent Office.
- 1877 - In Warrenton, Missouri, a meteorite falls to the ground; no damage or injuries.
- 1882 - The Saint Louis, Missouri, Assay Office opens.
- 1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated.
- 1918 - US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor.
- 1922 - First living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar.
- 1938 - The March of Dimes is established in the USA, to conquer polio.
- 1941 - Canada and US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease).
- 1942 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms.
- 1943 - First missing persons telecast (New York City, New York).
- 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.
- 1946 - Great Britain, Canada, and the United States make their first public disclosures about their chemical and biological warfare efforts during the war. American authorities reveal that they were prepared to act both defensively and offensively if Germany or Japan had started such warfare against the Allies.
- 1947 - First opening session of US Congress to be televised.
- 1957 - First electric watch introduced, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1959 - Alaska becomes the 49th state to join the USA.
- 1961 - Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of US House Education and Labor.
- 1965 - Robert Kennedy begins term as US Senator for New York.
- 1970 - Mame closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City, New York after 1508 performances.
- 1970 - The Prairie Network of cameras on parairie states of the USA records the fall of a stony meteorite, with four fragments totalling 17kg recovered near Lost City in Oklahoma, Nebraska.
- 1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys New York Yankees from CBS for US$12 million.
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1983 - Kilauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2008.
- 1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson.
- 1987 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts first female artist: Aretha Franklin.
- 1990 - Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US military troops to face charges of drug trafficking.
- 1992 - 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.
- 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 2001 - The 107th United States Congress is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators Bill Nelson (Democrat-Florida), Tom Carper (Democrat-Delaware), Debbie Stabenow (Democrat-Michigan), John Ensign (Republican-Nevada), George Allen (Republican-Virginia), Maria Cantwell (Democrat-Washington), Ben Nelson (Democrat-Nebraska), Hillary Clinton (Democrat-New York), Jon Corzine (Democrat-New Jersey), Jean Carnahan (Democrat-Missouri), and Mark Dayton (Democrat-Minnesota).
- 2003 - The 108th United States Congress is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators Saxby Chambliss (Republican-Georgia), Lindsey Graham (Republican-South Carolina), John Sununu (Republican-New Hampshire), Lamar Alexander (Republican-Tennessee), Elizabeth Dole (Republican-North Carolina), Norm Coleman (Republican-Minnesota), and Mark Pryor (Democrat-Arkansas).
- 2006 - Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster near Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA.
- 2008 - Rare snow flurries in southeast Florida, USA.
- 2008 - In Iowa, USA, the Democratic caucuses choose Barack Obama as candidate for the presidential election on November. National front-runner Hillary Clinton places third, behind John Edwards. The Republican caucuses choose Mike Huckabee over Mitt Romney.
Births on January 3
- 1907 - Birth of Anna May Wong in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet).
- 1916 - Birth of Betty Furness in New York City, New York, USA; actress/consumer activist (Studio 1).
- 1917 - Birth of Vernon Walters in New York City, New York, USA; American permanent representative to the United Nations.
- 1918 - Birth of Maxene Andrews in Minnesota, USA; singer (Andrew Sisters - "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy").
- 1921 - Birth of John Russell in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo).
- 1930 - Birth of Eddie Egan in Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Joe Forrester).
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Loggia in Staten Island, New York, USA; actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, THE Cat).
- 1932 - Birth of Mara Corday in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Foxfire, Black Scorpion).
- 1941 - Birth of Van Dyke Parks in Alabama, USA; actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour).
- 1945 - Birth of Stephen Stills in Dallas, Texas, USA; singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby Stills and Nash).
- 1948 - Birth of Larry McNeeley in Lafayette, Indiana, USA; banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour).
- 1955 - Birth of Cynthia Sykes in Coffeyville, Kentucky, USA; actress (Flamingo Road, St. Elsewhere).
- 1956 - Birth of Mel Gibson in Peekskill, New York, USA; actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory).
- 1957 - Birth of Frank Dicopoulos in Akron, Ohio, USA; actor (Frank Cooper - Guiding Light).
- 1964 - Birth of Cheryl Miller in Riverside, California, USA; basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 1965 - Birth of Mark Dewey in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; pitcher (San Francisco Giants).
- 1967 - Birth of Joseph Amor in San Jose, New Mexico, USA; video game record holder (Space Invaders).
- 1969 - Birth of Nikki Nelson in Topaz Lake, Nevada, USA; country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry).
- 1971 - Birth of Ku'ualoha Taylor in Hawaii; Miss Hawaii-USA (Miss Congeniality-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Paula Knoll in Moorhead, Minnesota, USA; Miss Minnesota-America (1995).
- 1977 - Birth of Beata Handra in San Francisco, California; dance skater (and Sinek-1997 Pacific Coast Senior third).
- 1980 - Birth of Angela Ruggiero; ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics-1998).
- 1981 - Birth of Eli Manning; American football player.
- 1985 - Birth of John David Booty; American football quarterback, USC.
- 1986 - Birth of Lloyd Polite; American singer.
- 1989 - Birth of Alex D. Linz, American actor.
Deaths on January 3
- 1946 - (0900 hours) At Wandsworth Prison in London, England, William Joyce is hanged. Known as "Lord Haw Haw", Joyce was an American citizen, who made regular wartime broadcasts over German radio, making him one of the most hated men in Great Britain.
- 1949 - Death of Robert Aitken, American coin designer.
- 1967 - Jack Ruby, assassin who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at age 55.
- 1975 - Milton J Cross, TV announcer (New York Metropolitan Opera Auditions), dies at age 87.
- 1976 - Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24), dies in F-4 crash at age 37.
- 1979 - Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at age 91.
- 1989 - Death of Robert Banks, American chemist (born 1921).
- 2003 - Death of Sid Gillman, American football coach (born 1911).
- 2009 - Jett Travolta, 16-year-old son of American actor John Travolta, dies suddenly of a seizure while on a family holiday in the Bahamas.
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