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
- 1521 –Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
- 1777 –American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1953 –Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
- 1959 –Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1977 –Apple Computer is incorporated.
- 1993 –In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 1996 –The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
- 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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