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| January 3rd |
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| About January 3rd is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of the calendar year (363 in leap years). Perihelion, the point when Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date. Births 1710 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier 1760 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier 1793 - Lucretia Mott, women's rights activist 1879 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States 1886 - Josephine Hull, actress 1887 - Helen Parkhurst, educator 1894 - ZaSu Pitts, actress 1897 - Marion Davies, actress 1905 - Anna May Wong, actress 1911 - John Sturges, director 1916 - Betty Furness, actress 1916 - Maxene Andrews, singer 1916 - Bernard Greenhouse, cellist 1917 - General Vernon Walters, U.S. military officer, diplomat 1917 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., publisher 1921 - John Russell, actor 1923 - Hank Stram, Hall of Fame football coach 1924 - Nell Rankin, singer 1930 - Robert Loggia, American 1932 - Coo Coo Marlin, racecar driver 1935 - Millard Fuller, Habitat for Humanity International founder 1932 - Dabney Coleman, actor 1941 - Van Dyke Parks, musician 1945 - Stephen Stills, guitarist, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills & Nash) 1946 - Cissy King, entertainer 1950 - Victoria Principal, actress 1952 - Jim Ross, professional wrestling announcer 1954 - Ned Lamont, businessman, politician 1962 - Francesca Lia Block, author 1970 - Christian Duguay, comedian, actor 1970 - Matt Ross, actor 1972 - Nichole Nordeman, singer 1975 - Jason Marsden, actor 1975 - Danica McKellar, actress 1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez, actor 1980 - Bryan Clay, decathlete 1980 - David Tyree, professional football player 1981 - Eli Manning, professional football player 1985 - John David Booty, football player 1986 - Lloyd Polite, R&B singer 1986 - Jessica O'Rourke, soccer player 1989 - Alex D. Linz, actor 1989 - Anya Rozova, model Deaths 1895 - James Merritt Ives, lithographer 1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, Civil War Union Army Major General 1945 - Edgar Cayce, psychic 1967 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald 1969 - Howard McNear, actor 1979 - Conrad Hilton, hotelier 1988 - Joie Chitwood, racedriver, daredevil 1990 - Arthur Gold, pianist 1993 - Johnny Most, sports announcer 2003 - Sid Gillman, Hall of Fame football coach 2005 - Will Eisner, comic book artist 2007 - William Verity Jr., U.S. Secretary of Commerce 2009 - Pat Hingle, actor (Commissioner Gordon - Batman) Events 1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont . 1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. 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 . 1861 - Delaware votes not to secede from the United States . 1870 - The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins. 1888 - The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. 1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times. 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 - During World War II, Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero. 1945 - During 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, Okinawa and Japan . 1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. 1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio , become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. 1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State. 1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba . 1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls , Idaho , leaks radiation, killing three workers. 1970 - The Beatles record their final song, "I Me Mine", without John Lennon who was in Denmark at the time. 1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated. 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first female artist to be entered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. 1993 - In Moscow , George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander was launched. |
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