About January 3

January 3, 2025 is the 3rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 26 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.
  • 1521 –
    Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
  • 1749 –
    The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
  • 1815 –
    Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
  • 1823 –
    Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
  • 1861 –
    American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
  • 1911 –
    A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • 1919 –
    At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
  • 1925 –
    Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
  • 1932 –
    Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
  • 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.
  • 1938 –
    The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • 1949 –
    The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
  • 1953 –
    Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • 1956 –
    A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
  • 1958 –
    The West Indies Federation is formed.
  • 1961 –
    The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, underwent a core explosion and meltdown, killing three workers.
  • 1976 –
    The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
  • 1999 –
    Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
  • 2004 –
    Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.

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