About January 3
January 3, 2024 is the 3rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 38 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
- 1749 –Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
- 1749 –The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
- 1777 –American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 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.
- 1932 –Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
- 1938 –The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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.
- 1946 –Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
- 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.
- 1958 –The West Indies Federation is formed.
- 1959 –Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
- 1961 –Finland’s worst civilian aviation accident takes place when Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
- 1961 –The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1962 –Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- 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.
- 1997 –China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
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