Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 3
This is a list of selected January 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1521 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church after Luther refused to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings. | needs more footnotes; Decet Romanum is stubby |
| 1749 – Benning Wentworth, Governor of the New Hampshire Colony, began to issue the New Hampshire Grants on land which was also claimed by New York, and is now Vermont. | needs more footnotes |
| 1938 – The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for polio research. | lead too short |
| 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the world's first electric watch. | unreferenced section, electric watch is unreferenced |
| 1958 – Ten former British colonies in the Caribbean joined to form a new self-governing West Indies Federation. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 1990 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrendered to American forces. | section tagged for cleanup |
Eligible
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under General George Washington defeated British troops in Princeton, New Jersey.
- 1888 – The 36 in (91 cm) refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, at the time the largest telescope in the world, was used for the first time.
- 1911 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1919 – Emir Faisal of Iraq signed 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.
- 1959 – As a result of the Alaska Statehood Act, the Territory of Alaska became the 49th U.S. state, and the first outside of the 48 contiguous states.
- 1976 – The multilateral International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, part of the International Bill of Human Rights, came into effect.
Notes
- Battle of the Assunpink Creek appears on January 2 and Washington's crossing of the Delaware/Battle of Trenton appears on December 25, so Battle of Princeton should not appear if either of the two are used
January 3: Arba'een (Shi'a Islam, 2013)
- 1833 – With the arrival of two British naval ships at the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom re-asserted sovereignty there.
- 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first President of Liberia.
- 1946 – Canadian-American jockey George Woolf (pictured), who rode Seabiscuit to a famous victory over War Admiral in 1938, was fatally injured when he fell from his horse during a race.
- 1961 – Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
- 1973 – American businessman George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees professional baseball team for US$8.7 million.
- 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell mobile phone, was released and went on to become one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption.