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.
- 1749 –Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
- 1777 –American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Top Ace Major Greg “Pappy” Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
- 1949 –The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
- 1956 –A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
- 1957 –The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 1958 –The West Indies Federation is formed.
- 1959 –Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
- 1961 –The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, underwent a core explosion and meltdown, killing three workers.
- 1961 –The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1990 –Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- 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.
- 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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