03 January History


Month:                           Date:     

  • 1521    -    Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
  • 1777    -    General George Washington defeats the British led by British General Lord Charles Cornwallis, at Princeton, New Jersey.
  • 1861    -    Delaware rejects a proposal that it join the South in seceding from the Union.
  • 1903    -    The Bulgarian government renounces the Treaty of Commerce tying it to the Austro-Hungarian empire.
  • 1910    -    The Social Democratic Congress in Germany demands universal suffrage.
ADVERTISEMENTS
  • 1912    -    Plans are announced for a new $150,000 Brooklyn stadium for the Trolley Dodgers baseball team.
  • 1916    -    Three armored Japanese cruisers are ordered to guard the Suez Canal.
  • 1920    -    The last of the U.S. troops depart France.
  • 1921    -    Italy halts the issuing of passports to those emigrating to the United States.
  • 1924    -    King Tutankhamen's sarcophagus is uncovered near Luxor, Egypt.
  • 1930    -    The second conference on Germany's war reparations begins at the Hague, in the Netherlands.
ADVERTISEMENTS
  • 1931    -    Hundreds of farmers storm a small town in depression-plagued Arkansas demanding food.
  • 1933    -    The Japanese take Shuangyashan, China, killing 500 Chinese.
  • 1946    -    President Harry S. Truman calls on Americans to spur Congress to act on the on-going labor crisis.
  • 1958    -    The British create the West Indies Federation with Lord Hailes as governor general.
  • 1959    -    Alaska is admitted into the Union as the 49th and largest state.
  • 1959    -    Fidel Castro takes command of the Cuban army.
ADVERTISEMENTS
  • 1961    -    The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
  • 1966    -    Cambodia warns the United Nations of retaliation unless the United States and South Vietnam end intrusions.
  • 1978    -    North Vietnamese troops reportedly occupy 400 square miles in Cambodia. North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops were using Laos and Cambodia as staging areas for attacks against allied forces.
  • 1985    -    President Ronald Reagan condemns a rash of arson attacks on abortion clinics.

  • 03 January Birthdays

  • 106 BC    -    Marcus Cicero, Roman statesman and author.
  • 1621    -    William Tucker, believed to be first African-American born in the New World.
  • 1793    -    Lucretia Coffin Mott, women's rights advocate and founder of the first Women's Rights Convention.
  • 1901    -    Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese president assassinated by his own generals.