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What happened in history on this day: January 3?
On January 3 in ...
- 1777 - US General George Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.
- 1825 - US Senate confirms Samuel Moore as Mint director.
- 1825 - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community.
- 1831 - First US building and loan association organized, Frankford Pennsylvania.
- 1861 - Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia.
- 1862 - Romney Campaign - CSA General Thomas Jackson moves north from Winchester.
- 1870 - Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge across New York's East River (completed May 24, 1883, will be world's longest suspension bridge).
- 1871 - Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, New York.
- 1872 - First patent list issued by US Patent Office.
- 1876 - First free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Massachusetts.
- 1877 - In Warrenton, Missouri, a meteorite falls to the ground; no damage or injuries.
- 1882 - The Saint Louis, Missouri, Assay Office opens.
- 1888 - First wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.
- 1889 - Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, Washington, asks for statehood.
- 1890 - First US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin.
- 1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated.
- 1918 - US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor.
- 1922 - First living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar.
- 1938 - US President Franklin Roosevelt authorizes the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes), to conquer polio.
- 1941 - Canada and US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease).
- 1942 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms.
- 1943 - First missing persons telecast (New York City, New York).
- 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.
- 1946 - Great Britain, Canada, and the United States make their first public disclosures about their chemical and biological warfare efforts during the war. American authorities reveal that they were prepared to act both defensively and offensively if Germany or Japan had started such warfare against the Allies.
- 1947 - First opening session of US Congress to be televised.
- 1957 - First electric watch introduced, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1959 - Alaska becomes the 49th state to join the USA.
- 1961 - Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of US House Education and Labor.
- 1965 - Robert Kennedy begins term as US Senator for New York.
- 1970 - Mame closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City, New York after 1508 performances.
- 1970 - The Prairie Network of cameras on parairie states of the USA records the fall of a stony meteorite, with four fragments totalling 17kg recovered near Lost City in Oklahoma, Nebraska.
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1983 - Kilauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2008.
- 1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson.
- 1990 - Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US military troops to face charges of drug trafficking.
- 1992 - 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter.
- 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
- 2001 - The 107th United States Congress is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators Bill Nelson (Democrat-Florida), Tom Carper (Democrat-Delaware), Debbie Stabenow (Democrat-Michigan), John Ensign (Republican-Nevada), George Allen (Republican-Virginia), Maria Cantwell (Democrat-Washington), Ben Nelson (Democrat-Nebraska), Hillary Clinton (Democrat-New York), Jon Corzine (Democrat-New Jersey), Jean Carnahan (Democrat-Missouri), and Mark Dayton (Democrat-Minnesota).
- 2003 - The 108th United States Congress is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators Saxby Chambliss (Republican-Georgia), Lindsey Graham (Republican-South Carolina), John Sununu (Republican-New Hampshire), Lamar Alexander (Republican-Tennessee), Elizabeth Dole (Republican-North Carolina), Norm Coleman (Republican-Minnesota), and Mark Pryor (Democrat-Arkansas).
- 2006 - Twelve dead coal miners and one survivor are discovered in the Sago Mine Disaster near Buckhannon, West Virginia, USA.
- 2008 - Rare snow flurries in southeast Florida, USA.
- 2008 - In Iowa, USA, the Democratic caucuses choose Barack Obama as candidate for the presidential election on November. National front-runner Hillary Clinton places third, behind John Edwards. The Republican caucuses choose Mike Huckabee over Mitt Romney.
- 2020 - A United States drone strike (ordered by US President Donald Trump) at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Births on January 3
- 1886 - Birth of Josephine Hull in Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA; Academy award winning character actress (Harvey).
- 1894 - Birth of Zasu Pitts in Parsons, Kansas, USA; character actress (Fibber McGee radio show, supporting role on TV's Gale Storm Show, Life With Father, Dames).
- 1897 - Birth of Marion Davies [Marion Cecelia Douras] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Operator 13).
- 1907 - Birth of Anna May Wong in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet).
- 1916 - Birth of Betty Furness in New York City, New York, USA; movie actress, TV spokesperson (commercial voice of Westinghouse), consumer activist (Studio 1).
- 1916 - Birth of Maxene (Angelyn) Andrews in Minneapolis, USA; singer (The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schön", "Rum and Coca Cola", "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy").
- 1917 - Birth of Vernon Walters in New York City, New York, USA; American permanent representative to the United Nations.
- 1921 - Birth of John (William Lawrence) Russell in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Pale Rider, Rio Bravo, TV series Lawman, recurring roles in It Takes a Thief, Alias Smith & Jones, and Jason of Star Command).
- 1930 - Birth of Eddie Egan in Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Joe Forrester).
- 1930 - Birth of Robert Loggia in Staten Island, New York, USA; actor (An Officer and a Gentleman, THE Cat, The Sopranos, Emerald Point NAS).
- 1932 - Birth of Dabney Coleman in Austin, Texas, USA; actor (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill, The Guardian, Slap Maxwell Story).
- 1932 - Birth of Mara Corday in Santa Monica, California, USA; actress (Foxfire, Black Scorpion).
- 1941 - Birth of Van Dyke Parks in Alabama, USA; actor/musician (Bonino, Billy Crystal Hour).
- 1945 - Birth of Stephen Stills in Dallas, Texas, USA; singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby Stills and Nash).
- 1948 - Birth of Larry McNeeley in Lafayette, Indiana, USA; banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour).
- 1955 - Birth of Cynthia Sykes in Coffeyville, Kentucky, USA; actress (Flamingo Road, St. Elsewhere).
- 1956 - Birth of Mel Gibson in Peekskill, New York, USA; director, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon, Conspiracy Theory, Complete Savages, Punishment, The Sullivans).
- 1957 - Birth of Frank Dicopoulos in Akron, Ohio, USA; actor (Frank Cooper - Guiding Light).
- 1964 - Birth of Cheryl Miller in Riverside, California, USA; basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984).
- 1965 - Birth of Mark Dewey in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; pitcher (San Francisco Giants).
- 1967 - Birth of Joseph Amor in San Jose, New Mexico, USA; video game record holder (Space Invaders).
- 1969 - Birth of Nikki Nelson in Topaz Lake, Nevada, USA; country singer (Highway 101 - "Cry Cry Cry").
- 1971 - Birth of Ku'ualoha Taylor in Hawaii; Miss Hawaii-USA (Miss Congeniality-1996).
- 1973 - Birth of Paula Knoll in Moorhead, Minnesota, USA; Miss Minnesota-America (1995).
- 1977 - Birth of Beata Handra in San Francisco, California; dance skater (and Sinek-1997 Pacific Coast Senior third).
- 1978 - Birth of Kimberley Locke; American singer and model (American Idol TV show).
- 1980 - Birth of Angela Ruggiero; ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics-1998).
- 1989 - Birth of Alex D. Linz, American actor (Providence, The Young and the Restless).
Deaths on January 3
- 1946 - At Wandsworth Prison in London, England, William Joyce is hanged. Known as "Lord Haw Haw", Joyce was an American citizen, who made regular wartime broadcasts over German radio, making him one of the most hated men in Great Britain.
- 1949 - Death of Robert Aitken, American coin designer.
- 1967 - Jack Ruby, assassin who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at age 55.
- 1975 - Death of Milton Cross of a heart attack at age 87; legendary radio/TV announcer (for 43 years the voice of the New York Metropolitan Opera).
- 1976 - Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24), dies in F-4 crash at age 37.
- 1979 - Death of Conrad Hilton, American hotelier, at age 91 (born 1887).
- 2015 - Death of Edward Brooke, American politician (born 1919).
- 2022 - Death of Harvey Stack; American coin dealer (Stack's, Numismatist of the Year (1997)).
- 2023 - Death of Walter Cunningham at age 90; American astronaut (NASA Apollo program).
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