January 3 in History

Historical Events on January 3

1861 American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.

1870 Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.

1925 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

1944 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

1947 Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.

1961 The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.

1977 Apple Computer is incorporated.

1994 More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.

2015 Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the 2015 Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.

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Famous Birthdays on January 3

1883 Clement Attlee

1956 Mel Gibson

1969 Michael Schumacher

1981 Eli Manning

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Famous Deaths on January 3

1497 Beatrice d'Este

1931 Joseph Joffre

1945 Edgar Cayce

2014 Phil Everly

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