WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/January 3
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Pope Leo X
Lick Observatory
Drawing of the James Lick telescope at Lick Observatory
title="Battle of Princeton" by John Trumbull
Motorola StarTAC
George Woolf and Seabiscuit
Winston Churchill in 1912
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1521 – Pope Leo X issued Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther for refusing to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings. | Leo: refimprove section; Decet Romanum: 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 |
| 1833 – With the arrival of two British naval ships at the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom re-asserted sovereignty there. | refimprove section |
| 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first President of Liberia. | refimprove |
| 1946 – Canadian-American jockey George Woolf, who rode Seabiscuit to a famous victory over War Admiral in 1938, was fatally injured when he fell from his horse during a race. | refimprove section |
| 1949 – The first Central Bank of the Philippines was formally inaugurated with Miguel Cuaderno, Sr. as the first governor. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the world's first electric watch. | unreferenced section; electric watch: refimprove |
| 1958 – Ten former British colonies in the Caribbean joined to form a new self-governing West Indies Federation. | needs more footnotes |
| 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 contiguous United States. | refimprove section |
| 1973 – American businessman George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees professional baseball team for $8.7 million. | Steinbrenner: refimprove section; Yankees: refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 250 – Emperor Decius ordered everyone in the Roman Empire (except for Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods, resulting in widespread persecution of Christians.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under General George Washington defeated British troops at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
- 1911 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1938 – The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for polio research.
- 1976 – The multilateral International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, part of the International Bill of Human Rights, came into effect.
- 1990 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrendered to American forces.
- 2002 – Israeli forces seized the MV Karine A, which was carrying 50 tons of weapons being smuggled on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
- Born/died this day: George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (d. 1670) · Clement Attlee (b. 1883) · Lynn Hill (b. 1961)
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
- 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
- 1888 – The 36-inch (91 cm) refracting telescope (pictured) at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time.
- 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.
- 1961 – Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
- 2009 – The bitcoin cryptocurrency network was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.
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