Today in History
3 January
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Howard Carter
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| 1322 Philip V of France died and was succeeded by his brother, Charles IV | ||
| 1338 Jacob of Arteveld elected mayor of Ghent | ||
| 1407 Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht |
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| 1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop | ||
| 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by 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 | ||
| 1667 Russia & Poland sign Truce of Androsovo | ||
| 1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Netherland | ||
| 1752 East Indies invasion "Geldermalsen" leaves at Malakka: 92 killed | ||
| 1777 In the American Revolution, George Washington defeated the British under Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton. | ||
| 1777 M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca/Piombino was born | ||
| 1803 Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag) was born | George Washington |
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| 1819 Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892 was born | ||
| 1833 Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic | ||
| 1840 1st deep sea sounding | ||
| 1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco | ||
| 1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii | ||
| 1857 In France, Sebour, the Archbishop of Paris, was assassinated by a priest | ||
| 1861 US Ft Pulaski & Ft Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia | ||
| 1868 Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors |
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| 1868 Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian was born | ||
| 1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883 | ||
| 1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY | ||
| 1872 In the United States, the first weekly patent list was issued. The Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office showed the numbers and titles of patents issued during the previous week. | ||
| 1874 Marshal Francisco Serrano became dictator of Spain. | ||
| 1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC | ||
| 1890 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin | ||
| 1892 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, S Afr, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings) was born | ||
| 1900 Perihelion Passage | ||
| 1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day | ||
| 1911 US postal savings bank inaugurated | ||
| 1911 In London, three anarchists who had killed policemen were besieged at 100 Sydney Street by authorities and killed in the early afternoon | ||
| 1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free | ||
| 1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Dept of Labor | ||
| 1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia | ||
| 1922 1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar | ||
| 1924 Howard Carter, British egyptologist, found the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. | ||
| 1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator | ||
| 1926 Theodoros Pangalos proclaimed himself dictator of Greece following a coup the previous June. He was deposed in August 1926. | ||
| 1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president | ||
| 1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio | ||
| 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 |
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| 1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms | ||
| 1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa | ||
| 1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab | ||
| 1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France | ||
| 1945 Following the civil war in Greece, a new government was formed under Gen. Plastiras, who immediately appealed for calm. | ||
| 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa | ||
| 1946 William Joyce, the "Lord Haw Haw" who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain during World War II, was hanged for treason in London. | ||
| 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents | ||
| 1955 Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama | ||
| 1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland | ||
| 1958 Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town | Howard Carter |
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| 1959 Alaska became the 49th state to be admitted to the United States. | ||
| 1961 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba. | ||
| 1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome | ||
| 1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro | ||
| 1967 Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald before he could be tried for the assassination of President John Kennedy, died in the hospital. | ||
| 1970 Marxist government takes over in Congo | ||
| 1974 Burma accepts its constitution | ||
| 1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson | ||
| 1985 Israel govt confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews | ||
| 1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin | ||
| 1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century | ||
| 1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement | ||
| 1990 In Panama, deposed leader Manuel Antonio Noriega surrendered to U.S. authorities after spending 10 days under siege in the Vatican embassy following the U.S. invasion. | ||
| 1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years | ||
| 1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter | ||
| 1993 Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President George Bush signed the Start-II Treaty, eliminating about two-thirds of the nations' nuclear stockpiles. | ||
| 1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt | ||
| 1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed | ||
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