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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 3
- 400th: 1624 - Birth of William Tucker first Black child born in America.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Henry M Fazzie; South African Union/UDF-leader.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Carla Hills; politician (US Presidential Commission on Housing-1982).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Christina von Saltza; American swimmer (Olympics-3 gold/silver-1960).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Cheryl Miller in Riverside, California, USA; basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 50th: 1974 - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Stefan Ustorf in Kaufbeuren, Germany; NHL right wing (Washington Capitals).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Todd Warriner in Blenheim, Ontario, Canada; NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs).
- 50th: 1974 - Burma accepts its constitution.
- 50th: 1974 - Gino Cervi, actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies at age 72.
- 50th: 1974 - Gold hits record US$121.25 an ounce in London, England.
- 50th: 1974 - New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager.
- 40th: 1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson.
- 30th: 1994 - Hundreds killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.
- 30th: 1994 - 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Cleveland Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field.
- 30th: 1994 - Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten and The Bie), dies at age 48.
- 30th: 1994 - Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia; 122 killed.
- 30th: 1994 - The ABC TV network premieres the Disney TV series The Good Life.
- 20th: 2004 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.
- 15th: 2009 - A series of powerful earthquakes hits eastern Indonesia, the strongest with a magnitude of 7.6, north of the city of Manokwari in West Papua province.
- 15th: 2009 - At the Hollywood Wheels Fort Lauderdale auction, a 1965 Shelby 427 SC Cobra CSX 3021 sells for US$3,780,000.
- 15th: 2009 - Israel launches a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip as the Gaza War enters its second week.
- 5th: 2019 - Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
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