January 3 ::: Project ETERNITY

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January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 362 days remaining (363 in leap years).

Events

1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine

1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther.

1749 - Benning Wentworth issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.

1777 - Battle of Princeton. American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis.

1815 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.

1818 - Venus occulted Jupiter. It was the last occultation of a planet by an other planet before November 22nd, 2065. Unfortunately no observation reports from this event visible in the Pacific area are known.

1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico

1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City

1840 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh.

1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States

1868 - The Japanese Meiji dynasty is restored and the Shogunate is abolished.

1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory 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, in an editorial in the New York Times.

1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

1926 - General Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator of Greece.

1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.

1951 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time (NBC).

1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

1958 - West Indies Federation formed.

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 at the installation. The radiation is contained.

1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

1966 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California.

1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.

1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted 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).

1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk, Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground

1997 - NBC's Today show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time.

2000 - The last Peanuts comic strip was created by Charles Schulz.

2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard.