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Events on the 3rd of January in history

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03 Jan 0236 St. Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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03 Jan 0269 St. Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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03 Jan 0936 Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
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03 Jan 1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected Mayor of Ghent
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03 Jan 1407 Bloody battles between Hoeksen and Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
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03 Jan 1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the Bishop
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03 Jan 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
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03 Jan 1521 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
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03 Jan 1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
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03 Jan 1638 Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
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03 Jan 1653 By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
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03 Jan 1667 Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland
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03 Jan 1667 Russia and Poland sign Truce of Androsovo
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03 Jan 1749 The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
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03 Jan 1749 Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
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03 Jan 1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth
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03 Jan 1752 East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
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03 Jan 1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey
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03 Jan 1777 American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
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03 Jan 1780 Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian, " 1st sung
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03 Jan 1815 Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
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03 Jan 1823 Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
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03 Jan 1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
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03 Jan 1831 1st US building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
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03 Jan 1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
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03 Jan 1840 1st deep sea sounding
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03 Jan 1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
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03 Jan 1848 Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
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03 Jan 1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
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03 Jan 1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
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03 Jan 1861 US Ft Pulaski and Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
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03 Jan 1861 American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
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03 Jan 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
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03 Jan 1868 Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
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03 Jan 1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883
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03 Jan 1870 Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
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03 Jan 1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, New York
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03 Jan 1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
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03 Jan 1876 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence, Massachusetts
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03 Jan 1885 Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
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03 Jan 1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
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03 Jan 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.
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03 Jan 1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
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03 Jan 1890 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
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03 Jan 1896 Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid
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03 Jan 1900 Gerhart Hauptmanns "Schluck und Jau, " premieres in Berlin
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03 Jan 1900 Perihelion Passage
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03 Jan 1902 Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, vs. England at MCG
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03 Jan 1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day
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03 Jan 1911 US postal savings bank inaugurated
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03 Jan 1911 A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
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03 Jan 1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
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03 Jan 1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
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03 Jan 1919 At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
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03 Jan 1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000
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03 Jan 1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia
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03 Jan 1922 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
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03 Jan 1924 British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
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03 Jan 1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament / becomes Dictator
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03 Jan 1925 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
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03 Jan 1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS President
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03 Jan 1929 Bradman scores 112 vs. England at MCG - his 1st Test century
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03 Jan 1932 Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
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03 Jan 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.
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03 Jan 1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
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03 Jan 1938 The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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03 Jan 1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
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03 Jan 1940 WPG-AM in Atlantic City, New Jersey consolidates with WBIL andWOV as "new" WOV
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03 Jan 1941 Canada and US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
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03 Jan 1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania
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03 Jan 1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
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03 Jan 1943 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
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03 Jan 1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
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03 Jan 1944 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
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03 Jan 1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
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03 Jan 1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
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03 Jan 1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
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03 Jan 1945 Greek General Plastiras forms government
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03 Jan 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
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03 Jan 1945 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 and Okinawa in Japan.
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03 Jan 1946 Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
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03 Jan 1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
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03 Jan 1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
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03 Jan 1947 Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
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03 Jan 1949 "Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
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03 Jan 1949 The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
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03 Jan 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British / US agents
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03 Jan 1951 Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
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03 Jan 1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
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03 Jan 1952 Australia beat West Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
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03 Jan 1953 Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
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03 Jan 1955 Jose Ramon Guizado becomes President of Panama
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03 Jan 1956 A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
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03 Jan 1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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03 Jan 1957 The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
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03 Jan 1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
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03 Jan 1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa at Cape Town
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03 Jan 1958 The West Indies Federation is formed.
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03 Jan 1959 Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
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03 Jan 1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
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03 Jan 1961 Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor
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03 Jan 1961 A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
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03 Jan 1961 In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
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03 Jan 1961 A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
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03 Jan 1961 The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
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03 Jan 1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
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03 Jan 1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
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03 Jan 1963 WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Jan 1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
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03 Jan 1966 Floyd B McKissick, named National Director of CORE
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03 Jan 1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
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03 Jan 1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
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03 Jan 1967 WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
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03 Jan 1969 Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
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03 Jan 1970 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
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03 Jan 1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo
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03 Jan 1970 WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
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03 Jan 1971 Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game
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03 Jan 1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
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03 Jan 1974 Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as Premier of Spain
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03 Jan 1974 Burma accepts its constitution
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03 Jan 1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
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03 Jan 1974 New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
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03 Jan 1976 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
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03 Jan 1977 Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
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03 Jan 1977 Apple Computer is incorporated.
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03 Jan 1978 Chandrasekar takes 6-52 and 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
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03 Jan 1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce
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03 Jan 1981 55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)
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03 Jan 1981 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr
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03 Jan 1981 Greg Chappell scores 204 vs. India at the SCG
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03 Jan 1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)
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03 Jan 1983 Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs. Minnesota
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03 Jan 1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
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03 Jan 1985 Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
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03 Jan 1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
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03 Jan 1987 "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
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03 Jan 1987 "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
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03 Jan 1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
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03 Jan 1987 Singer / Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City
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03 Jan 1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
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03 Jan 1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century
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03 Jan 1989 Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
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03 Jan 1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
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03 Jan 1990 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
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03 Jan 1991 Israel reopens consulate in the USSR after 23 years
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03 Jan 1991 LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders
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03 Jan 1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
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03 Jan 1993 "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 performances
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03 Jan 1993 "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 performances
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03 Jan 1993 "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 performances
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03 Jan 1993 "Secret Garden" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 706 performances
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03 Jan 1993 "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
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03 Jan 1993 Junk bond King Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
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03 Jan 1993 In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
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03 Jan 1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
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03 Jan 1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
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03 Jan 1994 More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
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03 Jan 1996 The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
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03 Jan 1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
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03 Jan 1997 Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs. England at Harare
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03 Jan 1997 Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs. England 3-0
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03 Jan 1997 China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
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03 Jan 1998 "Side Show, " closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
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03 Jan 1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
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03 Jan 1999 Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
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03 Jan 1999 The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
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03 Jan 2000 The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
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03 Jan 2002 Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
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03 Jan 2004 Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
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03 Jan 2009 The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
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03 Jan 2015 Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, with as many as 2,000 people having been killed.
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