January 3

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 3. From 1900 until now. January 3 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Mel Gibson (1956), Michael Schumacher (1969) and Victoria Principal (1950). Several movies were released around January 3 over the years, such as Hullabaloo in 1964 directed by Edwin L. Marin and Outside the Wire in 2020 directed by Mikael Håfström.
But much more happened on January 3 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

The tenth night and ninth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
The Festival of Sleep Day
In astronomy the best date to view the Quadrantids meteor shower.
Roman Empire - Festival in honour of Pax
Feast day of St Genevieve
In astronomy the approximate date of Earth's perihelion.
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Events

2019 Syrian Civil War: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state media say that a U.S.-led coalition aerial attack killed 11 civilians in Deir ez-Zor Governorate. (EFE via La Vanguardia) (SANA)
2018 Boko Haram insurgency: A suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Gamboru, Nigeria, killing 11 people. (Deutsche Welle)
2017 Ford announces that it has cancelled plans to build a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, long criticized by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and will invest $700 million in its Michigan plant in Flat Rock, potentially creating 700 new jobs from the investment and expansion of the plant. (CNN), (Fox News)
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Iraqi Army base (Camp Speicher, now known as Tikrit Air Academy), near the town of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, that killed at least 15 and injured 22. (Reuters)
2015 Boko Haram: Fleeing villagers from a remote part of the Borno State report that Boko Haram had three days prior kidnapped around 40 boys and young men. (BBC)
2014 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An 85-year-old man dies during Israeli suppression of a violent riot at Kufr Qaddoum near Nablus; he is the first Palestinian casualty from conflict with Israel in 2014. (The Guardian)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: A suicide bombing in Mussayab kills 27 Shiite pilgrims and injures 60 others. (Reuters)
2012 Aftermath of 2011 Libyan civil war: elements of former anti-Gaddafi forces from Tripoli and Misrata clash in the center of Tripoli, with five people reportedly killed. (''The Huffington Post'')
2011 A further 35 officers in Bangladesh are sentenced over their involvement in a mutiny in February 2009. (Xinhua)
2010 The United States and the United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen due to the ongoing security threat by Al Qaeda.
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.
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.
2007 National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
2006 Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster near Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA.
2005 Iraq War:: In Iraq, a spate of suicide bombings (including one near Iraqi National Accord headquarters) kills 27. Interim defence minister Hazim al-Shaalan hints that the assembly elections scheduled for 30 January could be delayed to allow for Sunni Muslim participation. (Oman Times) (Al Jazeera)
2004 Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
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).
2002 Beer brewer Freddy Heineken (grandson of the brewery's founder) died in his home at the age of 78.
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).
2000 The final daily original Peanuts comic strip is published.
1999 Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
1998 Side Show, closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final Today show on NBC-TV
1996 Motorola introduces the Motorola StarTAC Wearable Cellular Telephone, the world's smallest and lightest mobile phone at that time.
1995 Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry is re-elected to office after an absence of four years.
1994 An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.
1993 Catskills on Broadway closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 performances
1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.
1991 Israel reopens consulate in the USSR after 23 years
1990 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
1989 Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
1988 Israel orders nine Palestinian "instigators" deported from West Beirut.
1987 Oh Coward! closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
1985 Azharuddin scores 110 in first Test innings.
1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson.
1983 Kilauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2008.
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 metre butterfly (58.91s).
1980 Gold hits record US$634 an ounce.
1978 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 and 6-52 at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Indian innings win.
1977 Lindy McDaniel retires with second most pitching appearances (987 games).
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain.
1973 George Steinbrenner III buys New York Yankees from CBS for US$12 million.
1971 Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game.
1970 Jimmy closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
1969 Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
1967 Tonight Show is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
1966 Floyd B McKissick, named National Director of CORE
1965 Robert Kennedy begins term as US Senator for New York.
1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing She Loves You
1963 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
1961 The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.
1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State.
1958 The West Indies Federation is formed.
1957 First electric watch introduced, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
1956 A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1955 José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
1953 Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1952 Dragnet with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians exposed as British / US agents
1949 Colgate Theater dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
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.
1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
1944 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg ''Pappy'' Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
1943 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms.
1941 Canada and US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease).
1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City, New Jersey consolidates with WBIL andWOV as new WOV
1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
1938 The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937 The first science fiction convention is held in Leeds, England.
1935 The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey.
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.
1932 Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
1931 Albert Einstein begins doing research at the California Institute of Technology, along with astronomer Edwin Hubble.
1929 Bradman scores 112 vs. England at MCG - his 1st Test century
1926 Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece.
1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament / becomes Dictator
1924 British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Boston Red Sox for $125,000.
1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor.
1911 US postal savings bank inaugurated.
1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day.
1902 Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, versus England at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
1900 Perihelion Passage.
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