About January 3
January 3, 2023 is the 3rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 19 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1870 –The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- 1911 –A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1925 –Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1977 –Apple Computer is incorporated.
- 1990 –Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- 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.
- 1997 –China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
- 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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