Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 3

1338: Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1407: Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
1431: Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop
1521: Martin Luther excommunicated by 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
1667: Russia & Poland sign Truce of Androsovo
1746: Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]
1750: Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth
1752: East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
1777: Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
1780: Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
1825: Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as
1825: 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
1840: 1st deep sea sounding
1847: California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
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: Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883
1871: Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY
1872: 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
1876: 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Mass
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
1900: Gerhart Hauptmanns "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
1912: South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
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
1920: NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
1921: Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1922: 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the
1922: Alabama Centennial half-dollar
1924: British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1925: Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1926: Greek gen Theodorus P ngulos names himself dictator
1929: 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
1931: Nels Stewart of MontrTal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
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
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
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
1955: JosT Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
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
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
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 Pi?ero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC
1974: NY Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
1976: #2490 Bussolini & #6505
1976: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977: Apple Computers incorporate
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)
1984: Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1985: Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
1985: Israel govt 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
1987: Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in NYC
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
1994: "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 13 performances
1994: 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
1994: 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium
1994: since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field
1994: Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
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
1998: "Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
1998: Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke

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