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January 3 - Today in History

  1. 2009 Israel launches an invasion of the Gaza strip
  2. 2007 Gerald Ford is buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan
  3. 2004 Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148
  4. 1998 "Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers New York City after 91 performances
  5. 1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
  6. 1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final Today show on NBC-TV
  7. 1997 Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs. England at Harare
  8. 1997 Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs. England 3-0
  9. 1994 "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 13 performances
  10. 1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
  11. 1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
  12. 1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field
  13. 1993 "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 452 performances
  14. 1993 "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 22 performances
  15. 1993 "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers New York City after 780 performances
  16. 1993 "Secret Garden" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 706 performances
  17. 1993 "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin New York City after 10 performances
  18. 1993 Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
  19. 1992 32 Cubans defect to the U.S. via helicopter
  20. 1992 Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs. India at Sydney
  21. 1991 Israel reopens consulate in U.S.S.R. after 23 years
  22. 1991 LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders
  23. 1990 Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. authorities
  24. 1989 Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
  25. 1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
  26. 1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
  27. 1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century
  28. 1987 "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 56 performances
  29. 1987 "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 48 performances
  30. 1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
  31. 1987 Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City
  32. 1985 Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
  33. 1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
  34. 1984 Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
  35. 1983 Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota
  36. 1981 55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)
  37. 1981 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr
  38. 1981 Greg Chappell scores 204 vs. India at the SCG
  39. 1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)
  40. 1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce
  41. 1978 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 and 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
  42. 1977 Apple Computers incorporated
  43. 1977 Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
  44. 1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  45. 1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
  46. 1974 Burma accepts its constitution
  47. 1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
  48. 1974 Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in New York City
  49. 1974 New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
  50. 1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
  51. 1971 "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 72 performances
  52. 1971 Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game
  53. 1971 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game
  54. 1970 "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 84 performances
  55. 1970 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 1508 performances
  56. 1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo
  57. 1970 WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
  58. 1969 Rep Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. seated by Congress
  59. 1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
  60. 1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
  61. 1967 WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
  62. 1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
  63. 1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
  64. 1963 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
  65. 1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
  66. 1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
  67. 1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor
  68. 1961 U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
  69. 1959 Alaska admitted as 49th U.S. state
  70. 1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
  71. 1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town
  72. 1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
  73. 1955 Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
  74. 1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
  75. 1952 Australia beat West Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
  76. 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/U.S. agents
  77. 1951 Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (U.S. athlete of 1950)
  78. 1949 "Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
  79. 1948 Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 and 127*) vs. India MCG
  80. 1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
  81. 1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
  82. 1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
  83. 1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
  84. 1945 Cato-Meridian School, New York, installs germicidal lamps in every room
  85. 1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government
  86. 1945 John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in New York City
  87. 1945 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
  88. 1943 1st missing persons telecast (New York City)
  89. 1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
  90. 1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
  91. 1941 Canada and U.S. acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
  92. 1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania
  93. 1941 Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
  94. 1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City New Jersey consolidates with WBIL and WOV as "new" WOV
  95. 1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in U.S. House of Representatives
  96. 1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
  97. 1931 Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
  98. 1929 27 year old William S. Paley becomes CBS president
  99. 1929 Bradman scores 112 vs. England at MCG - his 1st Test century
  100. 1926 Greek General Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator
  101. 1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
  102. 1924 British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
  103. 1922 1st living person identified on a U.S. coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
  104. 1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia
  105. 1920 Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres
  106. 1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
  107. 1918 U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
  108. 1914 Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in New York City
  109. 1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
  110. 1911 U.S. postal savings bank inaugurated
  111. 1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day
  112. 1902 Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, vs. England at MCG
  113. 1900 Gerhart Hauptmanns "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin
  114. 1900 Perihelion Passage
  115. 1896 Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid
  116. 1890 1st U.S. college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
  117. 1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
  118. 1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington D.C.
  119. 1876 1st free kindergarten in U.S. opens in Florence, Mass
  120. 1872 1st patent list issued by U.S. Patent Office
  121. 1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, New York
  122. 1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883
  123. 1868 Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
  124. 1865 Con Orem and Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
  125. 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
  126. 1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
  127. 1861 U.S. Ft. Pulaski and Ft. Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
  128. 1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
  129. 1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
  130. 1840 1st deep sea sounding
  131. 1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
  132. 1831 1st U.S. building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
  133. 1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
  134. 1780 Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
  135. 1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
  136. 1752 East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
  137. 1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem, Netherlands
  138. 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow,
  139. 1667 Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland
  140. 1667 Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo
  141. 1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
  142. 1638 Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
  143. 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
  144. 1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop
  145. 1407 Bloody battles between Hoeksen and Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
  146. 1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
  147. 936 Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
  148. 269 St. Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
  149. 236 St. Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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