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On Jan. 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. (Go to article.)
On Jan. 3, 1793, Lucretia Mott, an early proponent of the women's rights movement in America, was born. Following her death on Nov. 11, 1880, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On January 3, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about women's rights. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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1521 Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1777 Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
1833 Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1868 The Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns.
1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1938 The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized.
1947 Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and New York City saw some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.
1961 The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1967 Jack Ruby, the man who fatally shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1990 Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City.
1997 Bryant Gumbel signed off for the last time as host of NBC's "Today" show.
2000 The last new daily "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles Schulz ran in 2,600 newspapers.
2004 NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, touched down on the red planet.
2006 Lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion and agreed to cooperate in investigations of corruption in Congress.
2008 Barack Obama won the Democratic caucuses in Iowa.
2009 After seven days of pummeling the Gaza Strip from the air, Israel launched a ground offensive; Hamas vowed that Gaza would be a "graveyard" for the Israelis.
Current Birthdays
Eli Manning turns 29 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Pinkus New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning turns 29 years old today.
84 George Martin
Record producer
80 Robert Loggia
Actor
78 Dabney Coleman
Actor
71 Bobby Hull
Hockey Hall of Famer
64 John Paul Jones
Rock musician (Led Zeppelin)
60 Victoria Principal
Actress ("Dallas")
54 Mel Gibson
Actor, director
42 Shannon Sturges
Actress
35 Jason Marsden
Actor
35 Danica McKellar
Actress ("The Wonder Years")
Historic Birthdays
Lucretia Mott
1/3/1793 - 11/11/1880
Early proponent of the American women's rights movement
(Go to obit.)
86 Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg
1/3/1737 - 11/1/1823
German theorist of Sturm & Drang literary movement
82 Robert Whitehead
1/3/1823 - 11/14/1905
British engineer, invented the modern torpedo
49 Father Damien
1/3/1840 - 4/15/1889
Belgian missionary to Hawaiian lepers
71 Sir Henry Alfred Lytton
1/3/1865 - 8/15/1936
English Gilbert and Sullivan star
84 Clement Attlee
1/3/1883 - 10/8/1967
English prime minister (1945-51)
81 J. R. R. Tolkien
1/3/1892 - 9/2/1973
English novelist and scholar
84 T. Claude Ryan
1/3/1898 - 9/11/1982
American aircraft manufacturer; designed the Spirit of St Louis
62 Dinh Diem Ngo
1/3/1901 - 11/2/1963
South Vietnamese president (1955-63)
86 Boris Kochno
1/3/1904 - 1/8/1990
Russian-born French ballet librettist
22 Morten Nielsen
1/3/1922 - 8/29/1944
Danish poet & resistance fighter
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