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What Happened on January 3rd This Day in History

Year	Name
2023	Singapore's Jurong Bird Park permanently closes.
2020	Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is killed by an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport, igniting global concerns of a potential armed conflict.
2019	Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.
2018	For the first time in history, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
2016	In response to the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
2015	Boko Haram militants destroy the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
2009	The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, is established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2004	Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
2002	Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
1999	The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
1994	Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Mamoney, Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths.
1993	In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1992	CommutAir Flight 4821 crashes on approach to Adirondack Regional Airport, in Saranac Lake, New York, killing two people.
1990	United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
1987	Varig Flight 797 crashes near Akouré in the Ivory Coast, resulting in 50 deaths.
1977	Apple Computer is incorporated.
1976	The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
1962	Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1961	Cold War: After a series of economic retaliations against one another, the United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1961	The SL-1 nuclear reactor, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
1961	A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1961	Aero Flight 311 crashes into the forest in Kvevlax, Finland, killing 25 people.
1959	Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
1958	The West Indies Federation is formed.
1957	The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1956	A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1953	Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1949	The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
1947	Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1946	Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
1944	World War II: US flying ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
1933	Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1920	Over 640 are killed after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes the Mexican states Puebla and Veracruz.
1913	An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
1913	First Balkan War: Greece completes its capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, as the last Ottoman forces on the island surrender.[19]
1911	A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
1911	A gun battle in the East End of London leaves two dead. It sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
1885	Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop.
1871	In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
1870	Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
1868	Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
1861	American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
1848	Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
1833	Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
1815	Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
1777	American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
1749	Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1749	The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
1653	By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
1521	Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
250	Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
69	The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.

Famous People Born on January 3

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Year	Name
1975	Thomas Bangalter, French DJ, musician, and producer
1952	Esperanza Aguirre, Spanish civil servant and politician, 3rd President of the Community of Madrid
1950	Victoria Principal, American actress and businesswoman
1880	Francis Browne, Irish Jesuit priest and photographer (d. 1960)
1922	Bill Travers, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1802	Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (d. 1898)
1944	Doreen Massey, English geographer and political activist (d. 2016)
1987	Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and singer
1997	Kyron McMaster, British Virgin Islands hurdler
1934	Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Famous People Deaths On January 3

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on January 3. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1701	Louis I, prince of Monaco (b. 1642)
1992	Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
1989	Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
1931	Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
2010	Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean-German composer and academic (b. 1925)
2012	Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1934)
1975	Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1880)
1946	William Joyce, American-British pro-Axis propaganda broadcaster (b. 1906)
1988	Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-German poet and author (b. 1901)
2009	Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (b. 1921)