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January 3 is the third day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of the year (363 in leap years). The Perihelion, the point in the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date.

Events

• 1431 – Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
• 1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
• 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
• 1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1777 – American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1782 – Sylhet District was established
• 1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
• 1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
• 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
• 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• 1870 – The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
• 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.
• 1921 – Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
• 1924 – British explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
• 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 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 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
• 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, Okinawa and Japan.
• 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1953 – Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
• 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
• 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. State.
• 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
• 1961 – The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, leaks radiation, killing three workers.
• 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
• 1988 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
• 1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
• 1993 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
• 1994 – An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.
• 1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receives South African citizenship.
• 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.
• 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
• 1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
• 2004 – Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
• 2007 – National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.

Births

• 106 BC – Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
• 1196 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
• 1698 – Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
• 1710 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
• 1719 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
• 1722 – Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
• 1733 – Sir Richard Arkwright, British industrialist and inventor (d. 1792)
• 1760 – John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
• 1778 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
• 1793 – Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880)
• 1802 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
• 1803 – Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857)
• 1806 – Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
• 1810 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
• 1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
• 1821 – Dragotin Dežman, Slovenian politician, archeologist and botanist (d. 1889)
• 1831 – Savitribai Phule, Female social activist, first female teacher in India, and first female poet in Marathi language (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
• 1840 – Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)
• 1855 – Hubert Bland, British socialist (d. 1914)
• 1856 – R.C. Lehmann, English writer (d. 1929)
• 1861 – William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
• 1862 – Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
• 1865 – Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
• 1870 – Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
• 1873 – Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
• 1875 – Alexandros Diomidis, governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Wilhelm Pieck, first President of East Germany (d. 1960)
• 1879 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
• 1883 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
• 1884 – Raoul von Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
• 1885 – Harry Elkins Widener, book collector, businessman, victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and person after whom Harvard University's largest library is named (d. 1912)
• 1886 – John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
• 1887 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• 1887 – Helen Parkhurst, American educator (d. 1973)
• 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
• 1894 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Borys Lyatoshynsky, Ukrainian composer (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1898 – Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974)
• 1900 – Donald J. Russell, North American railroad executive (d. 1985)
• 1901 – Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Ray Milland, British actor (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1909 – Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1911 – John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Mady Rahl, German stage and film actress (d. 2009)
• 1915 – Jack Levine, American social realist painter
• 1916 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
• 1916 – Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist
• 1917 – Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
• 1917 – General Vernon Walters, U.S. military officer, diplomat (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
• 1921 – John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1922 – Ronald Smith, British pianist (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Bill Travers, British actor and director (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Charles Tingwell, Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
• 1924 – André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997)
• 1924 – Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1926 – George Martin, British producer
• 1929 – Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
• 1930 – Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
• 1930 – Robert Loggia, American actor
• 1932 – Dabney Coleman, American actor
• 1932 – Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Tongolele, US-born dancer in Mexican movies
• 1935 – Raymond Garneau, French Canadian politician and businessman
• 1936 – David Vine, British sports commentator (d. 2009)
• 1937 – Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 1939 – Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
• 1939 – Janice Crosio, Australian politician
• 1939 – Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
• 1939 – Ruben Reyes, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• 1941 – Van Dyke Parks, American musician
• 1942 – John Marsden, Australian lawyer, gay activist (d. 2006)
• 1942 – John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (d. 2009)
• 1944 – David Atherton, British conductor
• 1944 – Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer
• 1945 – Stephen Stills, American musician
• 1946 – John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
• 1946 – Cissy King, American entertainer
• 1949 – Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
• 1950 – Victoria Principal, American actress
• 1951 – Gary Nairn, Australian politician
• 1952 – Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
• 1953 – Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and writer
• 1954 – Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
• 1954 – Ned Lamont, American businessman and political figure
• 1954 – Ross the Boss, American guitarist
• 1955 – Palmolive, British musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
• 1956 – Mel Gibson, Australian actor and director
• 1956 – Willy T. Ribbs, American race-car driver
• 1957 – Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
• 1958 – Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
• 1958 – James J. Greco, American businessman
• 1960 – Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India
• 1962 – Francesca Lia Block, American author
• 1963 – Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
• 1963 – Alex Wheatle, British novelist
• 1963 – Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
• 1964 – Bruce LaBruce, Canadian filmmaker
• 1965 – Steven A. LaChance, American Author
• 1966 – Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
• 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German seven-time F1 World Champion
• 1969 – Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian bobsledder and luger
• 1970 – Christian Duguay, American comic actor
• 1970 – Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
• 1970 – Matt Ross, American actor
• 1971 – Cory Cross, Canadian ice-hockey player
• 1972 – Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
• 1972 – Nichole Nordeman, American singer
• 1974 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
• 1975 – Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
• 1975 – Jason Marsden, American actor
• 1975 – Danica McKellar, American actress
• 1976 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Alisen Down, Canadian actress
• 1976 – Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
• 1976 – Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor
• 1977 – Lee Bowyer, British footballer
• 1977 – A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
• 1977 – Michelle Stephenson, Former Spice Girl
• 1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
• 1978 – Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model
• 1978 – Kimberley Locke, American singer
• 1978 – Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
• 1978 – Mike York, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – Bryan Clay, American decathlete
• 1980 – Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – David Tyree, American football player
• 1981 – Eli Manning, American football player
• 1983 – Antti Arst, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Billy Mehmet, Irish footballer
• 1985 – John David Booty, American football player
• 1985 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player for the Denver Nuggets
• 1986 – Lloyd Polite, American R&B singer
• 1986 – Jacob Timpano, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Jessica O'Rourke, American footballer
• 1987 – Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican artist and performer
• 1989 – Alex D. Linz, American actor
• 1989 – Julia Nunes, American singer and ukulele player
• 1989 – Anya Rozova, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant
• 1989 – Mustapha Hussein, Saddam Hussein's grandson, Qusay Hussein's son (d. 2003)

Deaths

• 235 – Pope St Anterus
• 1098 – Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester
• 1322 – King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
• 1437 – Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
• 1543 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
• 1571 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
• 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, British astronomer (b. 1618)
• 1656 – Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
• 1670 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, British soldier (b. 1608)
• 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)
• 1779 – Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
• 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
• 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, British potter (b. 1730)
• 1813 – Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (b. c.1764)
• 1826 – Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
• 1871 – Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian Saint (b. 1805)
• 1875 – Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
• 1882 – William Harrison Ainsworth, British novelist (b. 1805)
• 1895 – James Merritt Ives, American lithographer (b. 1824)
• 1903 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
• 1911 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
• 1915 – James Elroy Flecker, British author (b. 1884)
• 1916 – Grenville M. Dodge, American Major General (b. 1831)
• 1923 – Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
• 1927 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
• 1933 – Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1943 – F. M. Cornford, English classical scholar and poet (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
• 1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
• 1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
• 1946 – William Joyce, American propagandist (b. 1906)
• 1950 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
• 1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
• 1956 – Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Edwin Muir, Orcadian poet, novelist and translator (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Mary Garden, British singer (b. 1874)
• 1967 – Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1909)
• 1969 – Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Gladys Aylward, British missionary (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1980 – George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet, literary critic and academic (b. 1915)
• 1981 – Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
• 1988 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Arthur Gold, American pianist (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
• 1993 – Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch president of Heinekin International (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
• 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 – JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
• 2006 – Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Earl Reibel, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
• 2007 – William Verity Jr., American Secretary of Commerce (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Sir Cecil Walker, Member of Parliament for North Belfast (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Michael Yeats, Irish barrister, politician and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
• 2008 – Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
• 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)

Holidays and observances

• Feast day of St Genevieve
• Festival in honour of Pax, Roman Empire
• The tenth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
• Holy Prophet Malachi (400 B.C.)
• Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (3rd century)
• Saint Abelard, abbot
• January 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~

• selected by Kalki

2005

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee… ~ John Donne

• selected by Kalki

2006

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age? ~ Cicero (born 3 January 106 BC)

• proposed by UDScott

2007

Each comprehended only that part of the mind of Ilúvatar from which he came, and in the understanding of their brethren they grew but slowly. Yet ever as they listened they came to deeper understanding, and increased in unison and harmony. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion (Tolkien born 3 January 1892)

• selected by Kalki

2008

The rule of no realm is mine, neither of Gondor nor any other, great or small. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though Gondor should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. ~ "Gandalf" in The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

• proposed by Gandalf

2009

This is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here. For it is said that, though the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. ~ Gandalf in The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

• proposed by Kalki

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ~ Cicero (born January 3)

• 3 Zarbon 17:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Let your desires be ruled by reason. ~ Cicero (born January 3)

• 3 because reasoning is more important than mere desires. Zarbon 17:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Cicero (born January 3)

• 3 because without knowledge, we have emptiness. Zarbon 17:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 4 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC) I can agree that books are desirable, but not that all rooms require them.

Friends, though absent, are present still. ~ Cicero (born January 3)

• 4 because death is not an end. The memory will always remain and linger. Magnificent. Zarbon 17:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 seems a good thought near the start of the year. Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC) Though it seems familiar, and a slight enough difference of translation, I cannot find this actually published in the above form, and would prefer to extend this as:

He who looks on a true friend looks, as it were, upon a kind of image of himself: wherefore friends, though absent, are still present; though in poverty, they are rich; though weak, yet in the enjoyment of health; and, what is still more difficult to assert, though dead, they are alive.

• To this I would probably eventually give a 3 or a 4, but have a different preference for this year.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. ~ Cicero (born January 3)

• 3 because sometimes good comes from one's mistakes, elegant. Zarbon 17:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. ~ Gordon Moore

• 3 Zarbon 05:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
• 3 perhaps better for the end of the year? Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend. ~ Douglas William Jerrold

• 3 Zarbon 05:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now? ~ Jack Levine

• 3 Zarbon 05:54, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Triviaa 04:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Lúthien stood upon the bridge, and declared her power: and the spell was loosed that bound stone to stone, and the gates were thrown down, and the walls opened, and the pits laid bare. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

• 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 14:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Of the theme that I have declared to you, I will now that ye make in harmony together a Great Music. And since I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable, ye shall show forth your powers in adorning this theme, each with his own thoughts and devices, if he will. But I will sit and hearken, and be glad that through you great beauty has been wakened into song. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

• 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:31, 31 December 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC) but will probably go for a 4 on this eventually
• 2 Zarbon 14:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Return of the King

• 3 Kalki 06:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC) though leaning toward a 4, as another good quote for this period of changes.
• 2 Zarbon 14:45, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on January 3.

From Familypedia

January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days remaining until the end of the year (363 in leap years).

Events

• 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
• 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
• 1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
• 1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1777 - American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1815 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
• 1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
• 1825 - Rensselaer School, the first engineering college in the U.S. is opened in Troy, New York. It is now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• 1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 1834 - The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
• 1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
• 1868 - Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• 1870 - The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
• 1871 - Henry W. Bradley patents oleomargarine.
• 1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
• 1888 - Marvin C. Stone patents the drinking straw.
• 1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in The New York Times.
• 1921 - Turkey makes peace with Armenia.
• 1924 - English explorer Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.
• 1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 1932 - Martial law declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
• 1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of a legislative body in the USA.
• 1938 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1938 - Woman in White is first broadcast on the NBC Red network. The program remains on the radio for the next ten years.
• 1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
• 1945 - Admiral Chester W Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan itself.
• 1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1951 - Dragnet is first broadcast on NBC-TV.
• 1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
• 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• 1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
• 1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, leaks radiation, killing three workers.
• 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• 1973 - George Steinbrenner buys the New York Yankees from CBS for 3.2 million dollars
• 1977 - Apple Computer was incorporated.
• 1983 - CiTV launches on ITV in the UK.
• 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th Century.
• 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
• 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
• 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.
• 1997 - The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.
• 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander launches.
• 1999 - Israel detains, later to expel, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
• 2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people aboard.
• 2007 - National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport when it was travelling to Glasgow

Births

• 106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
• 1196 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
• 1710 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1796)
• 1719 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
• 1722 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
• 1760 - John Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (d. 1835)
• 1778 - Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
• 1793 - Lucretia Mott, American women's rights activist (d. 1880)
• 1802 - Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
• 1803 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright (d. 1857)
• 1810 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
• 1836 - Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
• 1840 - Father Damien, Flemish missionary (d. 1889)
• 1855 - Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)
• 1865 - Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
• 1870 - Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
• 1876 - Wilhelm Pieck, first President of East Germany (d. 1960)
• 1879 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
• 1883 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
• 1886 - Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
• 1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
• 1894 - ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
• 1895 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (d. 1974)
• 1897 - Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1898 - Carlos Keller, Chilean fascist politician (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
• 1905 - Ray Milland, Welsh actor (d. 1986)
• 1905 - Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1909 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
• 1910 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1911 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
• 1912 - Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
• 1912 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
• 1916 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
• 1916 - Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1917 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (d. 2001)
• 1921 - John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1922 - Bill Travers, English actor and director (d. 1994)
• 1923 - Hank Stram, American football coach (d. 2005)
• 1924 - Doug Ellis, British entrepreneur
• 1924 - André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (d. 1997)
• 1924 - Nell Rankin, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1926 - George Martin, British producer
• 1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
• 1929 - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
• 1930 - Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
• 1930 - Robert Loggia, American actor
• 1932 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
• 1932 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
• 1935 - Raymond Garneau, French Canadian politician and businessman
• 1937 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 1939 - Nikos Alefantos, Greek football manager
• 1939 - Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
• 1941 - Van Dyke Parks, American musician
• 1942 - John Thaw, British actor (d. 2002)
• 1944 - David Atherton, English conductor
• 1945 - Stephen Stills, American musician
• 1946 - John Paul Jones, British musician (Led Zeppelin)
• 1946 - Cissy King, American entertainer
• 1949 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim (d. 1965)
• 1950 - Victoria Principal, American actress
• 1954 - Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
• 1954 - Ned Lamont, American businessman
• 1954 - Jim Ross, American wrestling announcer
• 1955 - Palmolive, English musician (The Slits, The Raincoats)
• 1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor
• 1956 - Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
• 1957 - Bojan Križај, Slovenian skier
• 1958 - Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker
• 1959 - Rafael Arráiz Lucca Venezuelan writer
• 1960 - Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida,India
• 1962 - Francesca Lia Block, American author
• 1963 - Vic Grimes, American professional wrestler
• 1963 - Jerome Young, American professional wrestler
• 1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian film-maker
• 1966 - Martin Galway, Northern Ireland composer
• 1969 - Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
• 1970 - Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
• 1971 - Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 - Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
• 1972 - Nichole Nordeman, American singer
• 1974 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
• 1975 - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
• 1975 - Jason Marsden, American actor
• 1975 - Danica McKellar, American actress
• 1976 - Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
• 1976 - Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
• 1976 - Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor
• 1977 - Lee Bowyer, English footballer
• 1977 - A.J. Burnett, American baseball player
• 1977 - Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū)
• 1977 - Michelle Stephenson, English singer (The Spice Girls)
• 1978 - Kimberley Locke, American singer
• 1978 - Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
• 1978 - Dominic Wood, English children's television presenter and magician
• 1978 - Mike York, American ice hockey player
• 1979 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
• 1980 - Rob Arnold, American guitarist (Chimaira)
• 1980 - Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model
• 1980 - Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
• 1980 - David Tyree, American football player
• 1981 - Eli Manning, American football player
• 1985 - John David Booty, American football player
• 1986 - Jacob Timpano, Australian soccer player
• 1986 - Lloyd Polite, R&B Singer
• 1989 - Alex D. Linz, American actor

Deaths

• 1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
• 1322 - Philip V, King of France (b. 1293)
• 1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
• 1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
• 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
• 1656 - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
• 1670 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
• 1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
• 1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
• 1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
• 1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
• 1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
• 1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
• 1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
• 1882 - William Harrison Ainsworth, English novelist (b. 1805)
• 1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hilter (b. 1837)
• 1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
• 1915 - James Elroy Flecker, English author (b. 1884)
• 1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
• 1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
• 1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
• 1931 - Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
• 1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
• 1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
• 1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
• 1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
• 1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
• 1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
• 1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
• 1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
• 1963 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910)
• 1967 - Mary Garden, Scottish singer (b. 1874)
• 1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
• 1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
• 1969 - Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1974 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
• 1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
• 1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
• 1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
• 1988 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
• 1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
• 1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
• 2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
• 2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
• 2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
• 2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
• 2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
• 2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
• 2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
• 2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
• 2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
• 2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
• 2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983–2001 (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961–1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Feast day of St Genevieve
• Festival in honour of Pax, Roman Empire
• The tenth night and ninth day of Christmas in Western Christianity
• January 3

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada