About January 3
January 3, 2020 is the 3rd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 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 22 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
- 1496 –Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- 1959 –Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
- 1962 –Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- 1977 –Apple Computer is incorporated.
- 1994 –More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
- 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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