January 3

236 - St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
269 - St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
936 - Duke Alberik II of Spoleto appoints his son Pope Leo VII
1338 - Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent
1407 - Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
1431 - Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon
1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church
1638 - Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"
1638 - Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
1667 - Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]
1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1750 - Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth
1752 - East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed
1777 - General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, NJ
1780 - Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung
1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1825 - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1831 - 1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
1833 - Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
1840 - 1st deep sea sounding
1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
1852 - 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1861 - Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
1861 - US Ft Pulaski & Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
1862 - Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester
1865 - Con Orem & Hugh O'Neill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
1868 - Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors
1870 - Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883
1871 - Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY
1872 - 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
1888 - 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
1889 - Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
1890 - 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
1896 - Emperor Wilhelm congratulates Pres Kruger on the Jameson Raid
1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
1900 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin
1900 - Perihelion Passage
1902 - Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, v England at MCG
1910 - British miners strike for 8 hour working day
1911 - US postal savings bank inaugurated
1911 - The Government of India announces that emigration to Natal, Southern Africa, is prohibited with effect from 1 July
1912 - South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free
1912 - 10th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Christchurch (5-0)
1914 - Kelman/Cushing/Heath' musical "Sari," premieres in NYC
1918 - US employment service opens as a unit of Dept of Labor
1920 - Arthur Honegger's "Chant de Nigamon," premieres
1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1922 - 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
1925 - Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1926 - Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator
1929 - 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS pres
1929 - Bradman scores 112 v England at MCG - his 1st Test century
1931 - Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
1932 - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
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.
1938 - March of Dimes established to fight polio
1939 - Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
1940 - WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV
1941 - Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
1941 - Italian counter offensive in Albania
1941 - Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
1942 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1943 - 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
1943 - Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa
1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
1945 - Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
1945 - British Premier Winston Churchill visits France
1945 - Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room
1945 - Greek General Plastiras forms government
1945 - John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in NYC
1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
1946 - As a reward for his wartime cooperation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey commutes Charles "Lucky" Luciano's pandering sentence on condition that he does not resist deportation to Italy
1947 - 1st opening session of Congress to be televised
1947 - William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
1948 - Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG
1949 - "Colgate Theater" dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
1951 - 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents
1951 - Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
1952 - "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
1952 - Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38
1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1955 - Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1957 - 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa
1958 - Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
1958 - Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town
1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
1959 - Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1961 - Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 - Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
1963 - WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
1966 - Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE
1967 - "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
1967 - Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1967 - WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ
1969 - Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress
1970 - "Jimmy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
1970 - "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
1970 - Marxist government takes over in Congo
1970 - WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 - "President's Daughter" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 perfs
1971 - Baltimore Colts beat Oakland Raiders 27-17 in AFC championship game
1971 - Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game
1972 - The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, which injures over 60 people
1973 - George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1974 - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
1974 - Burma accepts its constitution
1974 - Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London
1974 - Miguel Pinero's "Short Eyes," premieres in NYC
1974 - NY Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Apple Computer, Inc incorporates
1977 - Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
1978 - Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
1980 - Gold hits record $634 an ounce
1981 - 55th Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beats W Turnbull (60 75)
1981 - Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 34, Austin Carr
1981 - Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG
1981 - Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100 m butterfly (58.91)
1983 - Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota
1984 - Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1985 - Azharuddin scores 110 in 1st Test innings
1985 - Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews
1987 - "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
1987 - "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
1987 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1988 - Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
1989 - Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
1989 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1990 - Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
1991 - Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
1991 - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders
1992 - 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
1992 - Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* v India at Sydney
1993 - "Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 perfs
1993 - "Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 perfs
1993 - "Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 perfs
1993 - "Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances
1993 - "Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
1993 - Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months
1993 - "The Comeback", QB Frank Reich led the Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit, to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game, the greatest comeback ever in pro football history
1994 - "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 13 performances
1994 - 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
1994 - Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
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
1994 - Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, becomes effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994
1997 - Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
1997 - Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick v England at Harare
1997 - Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series v England 3-0
1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
1998 - "Side Show," closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
1998 - Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
1999 - Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander was launched.
2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
2004 - After hosting the show for over 30 years, Casey Kasemgives up the hosting duties of "American Top 40" to Ryan Seacrest
2005 - Craig Ferguson becomes the host of "The Late Late Show" on CBS
2007 - National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
2009 - Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.
2013 - 27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib, Iraq

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January 3

235 - Pope St Anterus (b. unknown)
1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
1322 - Philip V, the Tall, King of France (1316-22), dies
1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
1501 - Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59
1543 - Juan Cabrillo, conqueror of Cen America, discoverer of California, dies
1552 - Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), dies at 64
1560 - Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56
1570 - Bartholomeus Latomus, [Steinmetz], Flemish archbishop of Trier, dies
1571 - Joachim II Hector, elector (Brandenburg), dies at 65
1628 - Francesco Maria Guaitoli, composer, dies at 64
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22
1656 - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
1661 - Maria I Stuart, Queen of England/husband of Willem II, dies at 29 [NS]
1670 - George Monck, English general(-to the-sea), dies at 61
1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
1701 - Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
1759 - Marquis & Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed
1761 - Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73
1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
1813 - Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
1829 - Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48
1836 - Friedrich Witt, composer, dies at 65
1841 - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
1853 - Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30
1858 - Rachel, [Elisabeth Rachel-Félix], Fr singer/actress (Muse), dies at 36
1865 - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, dies at 43
1868 - Moritz Hauptmann, composer, dies at 75
1870 - Konstantin Ushinsky, Russian educationalist, dies at 46
1873 - John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71
1875 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
1875 - George Bizet, composer, dies
1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
1882 - William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76
1895 - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
1898 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70
1900 - Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80
1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
1907 - Josef Foerster, composer, dies at 73
1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
1912 - Felix Dahn, writer, dies at 77
1914 - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
1915 - James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30
1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Good Soldier Schweyk), dies at 39
1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
1931 - Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78
1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at 56
1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1938 - Arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54
1942 - Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress, dies at 70
1943 - Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
1945 - Fyodor Akimenko, composer, dies at 68
1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
1946 - William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
1951 - Fred Barlow, composer, dies at 69
1956 - Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91
1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1960 - Victor Seastrom, entertainer, dies at 80
1963 - Oscar Backing, Austria/Neth viola player, dies at 83
1965 - Betty Harte, entertainer, dies at 82
1965 - Julius Tannen, comedian, dies at 84
1966 - Rex Lease, actor (Perils of Pauline, Dakota, California), dies at 62

1967- Jack Ruby, assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of pulmonary embolism at 55

1967 - Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92
1969 - Howard McNear, actor (Irma La Douce), dies after long illness at 63
1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
1970 - Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1972 - Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82
1974 - Gino Cervi, actor (Becket, Don Camillo), dies at 72
1975 - Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87
1975 - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77
1975 - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71
1976 - Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, dies
1976 - Mateusz Glinski, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24), dies in F-4 crash at 37
1977 - Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide
1977 - Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician, dies at 75
1979 - Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91
1980 - Amos Milburn, rocker, dies at 52
1980 - Axel Springer Jr, German photographer, commits suicide at 38
1980 - Ivan Triesault, actor (Von Ryan's Express, Desert Fox), dies at 81
1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)

1980 -Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist and author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69

1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
1982 - Derek Sealy, cricketer (West Indies 1930-39), dies
1985 - Lucien Cailliet, composer, dies at 93
1986 - Jens Bjerre, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Gaston Eyskens, PM of Belgium (1949, 1958-61, 1968-72), dies at 82
1988 - William Cagney, actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at 82
1988 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
1988 - Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1990 - Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies
1990 - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
1992 - Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79
1992 - Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek 3), dies of pneumonia at 93
1992 - Ken Grieves, cricketer (NSW & Lancashire leg-spin all-rounder), dies
1992 - Lewis Michael Friedman, pianist, dies at 47 of AIDS
1992 - Radomiro Tomic, Chilean president (1970), dies
1993 - Peter Brocco, blacklisted in the 1950's, dies of heart attack at 89
1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
1994 - Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten & The Bie), dies at 48
1994 - Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
1995 - Al Duncan, drummer, dies at 68
1995 - Byron MacGregor, newscaster, dies at 56
1995 - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74
1995 - Robert Nesbitt, impresario, dies at 88
1996 - Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer, dies at 67
1996 - Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist, dies at 88
1997 - Burton Lane, composer, dies at 84
2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach, dies at 91
2004 - Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983-2001 (b. 1924)
2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
2008 - Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2008 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
2008 - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)
2009 - Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
2009 - Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1937)
2009 - Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
2010 - Professor Sir Ian Brownlie, International law specialist
2010 - Mary Daly, American theologian and feminist scholar (b. 1928)
2011 - Fadil Hadžić, Croatian film director (b. 23 April 1922)
2012 - Wylie Walker Vale, American Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone, dies at 70.
2012 - Robert L Carter, American civil rights activist and judge, dies after complications from a stroke at 94
2012 - Winifred Milius Lubell, American illustrator and writer, dies of congestive heart failure at 97
2012 - Josef Skvorecky, Czech writer and publisher, dies at 87
2012 - Bob Weston, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), dies from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage at 64 (body found on this date)
2012 - Harold Zirin, American astronomer, dies at 82
2013 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, dies from surgical complications at 82
2014 - Phillip "Phil" Everly, American musician ("The Everly Brothers")

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