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
- 1496 –Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
- 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.
- 1868 –Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
- 1870 –The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- 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.
- 1945 –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 and Okinawa in Japan.
- 1947 –Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- 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.
- 1959 –Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- 1976 –The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
- 1977 –Apple Computer is incorporated.
- 1990 –Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- 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.
- 1997 –China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
- 1999 –Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
- 1999 –The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
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