About January 3
January 3, 2024 is the 3rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 38 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
January 3: More About This Day
The Perihelion, the point in the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date.
What Happened On January 3
- 1431 –Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
- 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.
- 1777 –American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1782 –Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established
- 1815 –Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
- 1848 –Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
- 1868 –Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
- 1911 –A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1938 –The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1944 –World War II: Top Ace Major Greg “Pappy” Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
- 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.
- 1957 –The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 1958 –The West Indies Federation is formed.
- 1961 –The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1976 –The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
- 1977 –Apple Computer is incorporated.
- 1993 –In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 1994 –More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
- 1996 –The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
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