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

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