January 3rd Events |
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| January 3rd, 2007 (January 03 2007) | Event | National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport. | |
| January 3rd, 2004 (January 03 2004) | Event | Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board. | |
| January 3rd, 1999 (January 03 1999) | Event | The Mars Polar Lander was launched. | |
| January 3rd, 1999 (January 03 1999) | Event | Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians. | |
| January 3rd, 1997 (January 03 1997) | Event | 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. | |
| January 3rd, 1994 (January 03 1994) | Event | An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground. | |
| January 3rd, 1993 (January 03 1993) | Event | In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). | George H. W. Bush Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1990 (January 03 1990) | Event | Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. | |
| January 3rd, 1988 (January 03 1988) | Event | Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1977 (January 03 1977) | Event | Apple Computer is incorporated. | |
| January 3rd, 1962 (January 03 1962) | Event | Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1961 (January 03 1961) | Event | The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. | |
| January 3rd, 1961 (January 03 1961) | Event | The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers. | |
| January 3rd, 1959 (January 03 1959) | Event | Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State. | |
| January 3rd, 1958 (January 03 1958) | Event | The West Indies Federation is formed. | |
| January 3rd, 1957 (January 03 1957) | Event | The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. | |
| January 3rd, 1956 (January 03 1956) | Event | A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. | |
| January 3rd, 1953 (January 03 1953) | Event | Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. | |
| January 3rd, 1947 (January 03 1947) | Event | Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. | |
| January 3rd, 1945 (January 03 1945) | Event | World War II: Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan. | |
| January 3rd, 1944 (January 03 1944) | Event | World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. | |
| January 3rd, 1938 (January 03 1938) | Event | The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. | |
| January 3rd, 1933 (January 03 1933) | Event | 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. | |
| January 3rd, 1932 (January 03 1932) | Event | Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit. | Martial Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1925 (January 03 1925) | Event | Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1924 (January 03 1924) | Event | English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. | Howard Carter Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1921 (January 03 1921) | Event | Turkey makes peace with Armenia. | |
| January 3rd, 1899 (January 03 1899) | Event | The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times. | |
| January 3rd, 1888 (January 03 1888) | Event | The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. | |
| January 3rd, 1870 (January 03 1870) | Event | The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins. | |
| January 3rd, 1868 (January 03 1868) | Event | Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Choshu seize power. | |
| January 3rd, 1861 (January 03 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States. | |
| January 3rd, 1848 (January 03 1848) | Event | Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia. | |
| January 3rd, 1834 (January 03 1834) | Event | The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City. | |
| January 3rd, 1823 (January 03 1823) | Event | Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico. | |
| January 3rd, 1815 (January 03 1815) | Event | Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. | |
| January 3rd, 1777 (January 03 1777) | Event | American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. | George Washington Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1749 (January 03 1749) | Event | Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont. | |
| January 3rd, 1521 (January 03 1521) | Event | Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| January 3rd, 1496 (January 03 1496) | Event | Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. | |
| January 3rd, 1431 (January 03 1431) | Event | Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. | Joan of Arc Quotes |
