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.
- 1496 –Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
- 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.
- 1782 –Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh is established
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
- 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.
- 1949 –The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
- 1957 –The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 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.
- 1994 –More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
- 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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