03 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 03 is the day number 3 in a given year. January 03 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1698	Italian writer and poet Peter Metaz Tazio was born.
1749	Benning Wentworth established Vermont, moving on to the first issue of New Hampshire grants.
1749	The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
1777	George Washington's army defeated the British Army in New Zealand.
1797	The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, was signed in Algiers.
1823	Stephen F. Austin received land in Texas as a grant from the government of Mexico.
1833	British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic was reassessed.
1833	With the arrival of two British naval ships at the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom re-asserted sovereignty there.
1834	Stephen F. Austin was arrested in Mexico City by the Mexican government.
1836	Munshi Naval Kishore, the founder of Asia's oldest printing press, was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
1848	Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first President of Liberia.
1852	China's first move took place on the island of Hawaii.
1875	The French litterateur and dictionary expert Pier LaRose died.
1888	The 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.
1910	Junior high school classes began for the first time in the United States.
1910	There was a strike in Britain to fix 8 hours for daily work.
1911	A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroyed the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
1919	Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionism leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
1943	For the first time, information about missing people was broadcast on television.
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.
1949	The first Central Bank of the Philippines was formally inaugurated with Miguel Cuaderno, Sr. as the first governor.
1955	Jose Ramon Guizado became the President of Panama.
1956	The fire on the upper part of the Eiffel Tower in France caused damage.
1957	The electric watch was first displayed in Pennsylvania, USA.
1957	The Hamilton Watch Company inaugurated its first electric watch.
1959	Alaska was declared the 49th state of the United States.
1959	Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
1961	Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian airaccident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
1971	The BBC started the university in the United Kingdom.
1973	American businessman George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees professional baseball team for US$8.7 million.
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.
1994	The famous Sherv “Gray's Anatomy” closed at Beaumont Theatre New York city after 13 performances.
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.
1997	Eddo Brands of Zimbabwe takes ODI HAT-TRICKS vs. England at Harare.
1998	The Algerian Islamic Rebellion killed 412 people.
2002	Israeli forces seized the MV Karine A, which was carrying 50 tons of weapons being smuggled in on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
2004	All 148 people aboard were killed in the crash of the Boeing 737 aircraft 604 by Egyptian airline Flash Airlines.
2009	Israel launched an invasion of the Gaza strip.
2010	Australian researchers discovered the first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912.
2012	Mitt Romney, Ron Paul & Rick Santorum lead Republican Contenders as nominees for president of the USA. 2004- The Flash Airlines flight 604 crushed near Sharm at Sheikh in Egypt, in which 48 people were killed.
2012	A survey conducted in Spain reported that the rate of unemployment was very high.
2013	A suicide bombing in the Musayyib region of Iraq killed 27 people of the Shia community and injured 60.
2013	The USA replaced the 112th Congress. It swears in the 113th Congress.
2013	Actor Gerard Depardien was granted citizenship by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. But Depaedien soon renounced his French citizenship due to the country's high taxes.
2014	The Bloomberg Billionaires Index has released that there has been a increase of the net worth of the 300 richest people in the world has $524 billion.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1831	Savitribai Phule / Educationist / India
1760	Veerapandiya Kattabomman / Ruler / India
1831	Savitribai Phule / Poet / India
1831	Savitribai Phule / Writer / India
1921	Chetan Anand / Writer / India
1927	Janaki Ballabh Patnaik / Politician / India
1931	Yashawant Dinkar Phadke / Activist / India
1943	Nirmal Chander Vij / Soldier / India
1966	Chetan Sharma / Cricketer / India
1979	Gul Panag / Actress / India
1986	Navneet Kaur / Actress / India

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