About January 3
January 3, 2022 is the 3rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 29 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
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
- 1911 –A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 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.
- 1932 –Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1947 –Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
- 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 –Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- 1961 –The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
- 1990 –Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
- 1999 –Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
- 1999 –The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
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