95 sourced historical events are currently published for January 3. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
The published January 3 chronology runs from 684 to 2025, a span of 1,341 years. It contains 95 sourced records across 24 countries and 9 event categories. These figures describe the current collection, not all events that occurred on this date.
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Li Xian succeeded his father, Emperor Gaozong, as Emperor Zhongzong. Empress Dowager Wu continued to decide affairs of state.
January 3 in the Julian calendar and January 6 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
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On 3 January 1521, Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Martin Luther through the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. This followed Exsurge Domine, a separate bull issued in June 1520 that condemned forty-one propositions from Luther’s teachings.
This date records the formal excommunication, rather than the earlier condemnation of Luther’s teachings.
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The Siamese–Cambodian War (1591–1594)(Khmer: សង្គ្រាមសៀម-កម្ពុជា (១៥៩១-១៥៩៤),Thai: สงครามสยาม-กัมพูชา พ.ศ. 2134), also known as The Siamese Invasion of Longvek, was a military conflict fought between the Ayutthaya Kingdom and the Kingdom of Cambodia. The war began in 1591 when Ayutthaya invaded Cambodia in response to continuous Khmer raids into their territory. The Kingdom of Cambodia was also facing religious disagreements within the country. This gave the Siamese a perfect opportunity to invade. The first invasion was interrupted before it achieved its goals. The Ayutthayan king Naresuan returned two years later, eventually subjugating the whole country and finally sacking the Cambodian capital of Longvek on 3 January 1594.
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Berlingske, previously known as Berlingske Tidende (Danish: [ˈpɛɐ̯le̝ŋskə ˈtsʰiːðn̩ə], 'Berling's Times'), is a Danish national daily newspaper based in Copenhagen. It is considered a newspaper of record for Denmark. First published on 3 January 1749, Berlingske is Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper and among the oldest newspapers in the world.
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New Hampshire governor Benning Wentworth chartered Bennington, the first of the New Hampshire Grants. The grant went to William Williams and other proprietors. Permanent settlement began later, in 1761.
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The Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) was a pivotal battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey. On the night of January 2, 1777 George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in Trenton. That night, he evacuated his position, circled around General Lord Cornwallis' army, and went to attack the British garrison at Princeton. Brigadier General Hugh Mercer of the Continental Army clashed with two regiments under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mawhood of the British Army.
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The Battle of Videau's Bridge (also known as Smith's plantation) was an engagement of the American Revolutionary War fought on January 3, 1782 in Charles Town District, currently Berkeley County, South Carolina. The British routed an American force opposing a foraging expedition they sent from Charleston. The British claimed to kill 57 and capture 20 Americans.
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The Capture of Shimoga, a town and fortress held by forces of the Kingdom of Mysore, occurred on 3 January 1792, after a preliminary battle with the attacking forces of the British East India Company and the Marathas, not far from the town on 29 December, had scattered much of its defending army. The defenders surrendered after the fort's walls were breached.
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The Battle of Noirmoutier was a confrontation in the War in the Vendée which took place on 3 January 1794 between the Republicans and the Vendeans for control of the island of Noirmoutier. Situated in the Bay of Bourgneuf and linked to the mainland by the Gois causeway, the island was occupied on 12 October 1793 by General Charette's Vendean troops.
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The Battle of Cacabelos was a minor battle of the Peninsular War that took place on 3 January 1809, at the bridge just outside the village of Cacabelos, Province of León, Spain, as Sir John Moore's British army was making its retreat to A Coruña. The French cavalry Brigadier General Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais was killed by a sharpshooter at Cacabelos.
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A gubernatorial special election was held in Virginia on January 3, 1812. The speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates James Barbour was elected without opposition. The previous governor of Virginia George W. Smith died on December 26, 1811. Peyton Randolph succeeded to office in his capacity as president of the Council of State and acted as governor until the election of a successor.
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The Battle of Arapey was an encounter between the Luso-Brazilian forces under José de Abreu Mena Barreto and the Artiguist forces led by José Artigas, the independentist caudillo himself, in Salto, modern-day Uruguay. On 3 January 1817 Abreu attacked Artigas army in its camp, surprising the defenders. The Luso-Brazilian forces secured a victory and seized all of the supplies of the independentist army.
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The 1831 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on January 3, 1831, in order to elect the governor of Maryland. Former National Republican governor Daniel Martin was elected by the Maryland General Assembly against incumbent Democratic governor Thomas King Carroll in a rematch of the previous election.
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The Peruvian Civil War of 1834 was a revolt by supporters of former president Agustín Gamarra against the government. Gamarra had wanted Pedro Pablo Bermúdez as his successor to the presidency instead of Luis José de Orbegoso. On April 17, 1834, the two sides clashed in the Battle of Huaylacucho, in Huancavelica resulting in a victory for the revolutionaries. On April 24, 1834, there was another clash near Jauja.
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The first printed edition of Wei Yuan’s Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms appeared in 50 volumes. Drawing on earlier translations commissioned by Lin Zexu, it introduced readers to the geography and history of countries beyond China.
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts (March 15, 1809 – February 24, 1876) was an African American merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician. Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence, he was the first man of African descent to govern the country, serving previously as governor from 1841 to 1848.
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On 3 January 1861, Delaware’s state legislature voted to remain in the Union during the secession crisis.
This was a vote by the state legislature, rather than a statewide popular referendum.
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The Battle of Cockpit Point, the Battle of Freestone Point, or the Battle of Shipping Point, took place on January 3, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the blockade of the Potomac River during the American Civil War. After victory at First Battle of Bull Run, the Confederate States Army (CSA) established a defensive line from Centreville along the Occoquan River to the Potomac River. The Confederates used the Potomac’s banks as gun positions to halt Union traffic on the river, protecting Manassas Junction to the west and Fredericksburg to the south and to close the Potomac River to shipping and isolate Washington.
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Japan’s imperial court issued an order abolishing the Tokugawa shogunate and establishing a government centred on the emperor. The proclamation followed Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s earlier proposal to return governing power.
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On 3 January 1870, ground was broken for the Brooklyn tower foundation of the Brooklyn Bridge, according to the New York City Municipal Archives collection guide. This was a construction milestone in the project to link Brooklyn and Manhattan across the East River. The bridge opened in May 1883.
This date records work beginning on the Brooklyn tower foundation, rather than a universal start date for the entire bridge project.
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On 3 January 1871, French forces under Louis Faidherbe fought Prussian forces near Bapaume during the Franco-Prussian War.
This records the fighting on 3 January, rather than the wider sequence of movements around Bapaume.
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The Battle of Núi Bop (3–4 January 1885) was a French victory during the Sino-French War. The battle was fought to clear Chinese forces away from the French forward base at Chu, and was an essential preliminary to the Lạng Sơn Campaign in February 1885.
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The 1888 Calgary municipal election was held on January 3, 1888 to elect a Mayor and six Councillors to sit on the fourth Calgary Town Council from January 16, 1888 to January 21, 1889. The 1888 election was the first after the Town Council had expanded from four councillors to six councillors.
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The 36-inch telescope on Mount Hamilton, California, made its first astronomical observations. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Grand Duchy of Finland on 2 and 3 January 1911.
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The 1911 Kebin earthquake, or Chon-Kemin earthquake, struck Russian Turkestan on 3 January. Registering at a moment magnitude of 8.0, it killed 452 people, destroyed more than 770 buildings (which was almost all of the city) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and resulted in 125 miles (201 km) of surface faulting in the valleys of Chon-Kemin, Chilik and Chon-Aksu.
The calendar date follows the earthquake’s January 3 UTC origin time. The introduction uses a moment-magnitude estimate of 8.0; historical magnitude estimates differ.
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The 1912 Prince Edward Island general election was held in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island on January 3, 1912. The election was won by the governing Conservatives, led by incumbent Premier John A. Mathieson, nearly sweeping the island's 30 districts and granting the Conservatives their first clear general election victory since the 1886 election.
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On 3 January 1913, the remaining Ottoman garrison on Chios surrendered to Greek forces during the First Balkan War. Greek forces had landed on the island in November 1912, but resistance continued in the mountainous interior.
This marks the end of resistance on the island, rather than the initial Greek landing.
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The storm brought unusually low air pressure to Canton in northern New York. The National Climatic Data Center later confirmed the sea-level reading of 955 millibars from archived records.
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A moment magnitude 6.3–6.4 earthquake affected southeastern Mexico, in the states of Puebla and Veracruz, on 3 January 1920 at 22:25 local time. A maximum Mercalli-Cancani intensity of XI–XII (Extreme) was recorded in the epicenter, between Chilchotla and Patlanalá. While estimates of the death toll vary across different sources, ranging from 648 to 4,000 fatalities, it is the second deadliest earthquake in Mexico, behind another earthquake in 1985 that killed more than 9,000 people.
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Minnie Craig (née Davenport, November 4, 1883 – July 2, 1966) was an American legislator, notable as the first female speaker of a state House of Representatives in the United States. Born in Phillips, Maine on November 4, 1883 to Marshall and Aura (Prescott) Davenport, Minnie Davenport was a bright student. After graduating from the Farmington State Normal School she attended the New England Conservatory of Music and became a school teacher.
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The 1936 Tschammerpokal final decided the winner of the 1936 Tschammerpokal, the 2nd season of Germany's knockout football cup competition. It was played on 3 January 1937 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. VfB Leipzig won the match 2–1 against Schalke 04 to claim their 1st cup title.
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On 3 January 1941, Qian Yitai, an inorganic chemist, was born.
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The U.S. Marine fighter pilot went missing during a sweep near Rabaul. He survived the loss of his aircraft and was taken prisoner by Japanese forces.
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Canadian jockey George Woolf fell from his horse, Please Me, during a race at Santa Anita Park in California. He died from his injuries the next morning.
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On 3 January 1947, the opening session of the 80th U.S. Congress was televised live from the House of Representatives chamber. It was the first live television coverage of a congressional proceeding. This broadcast covered the opening ceremonies, rather than regular legislative debates.
The date records the televised opening session, not the later introduction of regular television coverage of House debates.
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (lit. 'Central Bank of the Philippines'; commonly abbreviated as BSP in both Filipino and English) is the government-owned central bank of the Philippines. It was established on January 3, 1949, and then re-established on July 3, 1993, pursuant to the provision of Republic Act 7653 or the New Central Bank Act of 1993 as amended by Republic Act 11211 or the New Central Bank Act of 2019.
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The Tianjin campaign was the epitome of the Pingjin campaign, fought between the nationalists and the communists during the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II era. The result of the Tianjin campaign helped to determine the outcome of the Pingjin campaign. The original communist plan was to capture Tanggu first to cut off the nationalist escape route via sea and then force the nationalists in Beijing and Tianjin to surrender, in order to save the two historical cities from the destruction of the war.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 3 January 1950, with a second round on 10 January. The result was a victory for the Wafd Party. They were the last parliamentary elections that took place under the monarchy, and the last genuinely contested legislative election in Egypt until the election following the Revolution of 2011.
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On 3 January 1953, Frances Bolton and her son Oliver Bolton began serving together in the U.S. House of Representatives. Both represented Ohio. They became the first mother-and-son pair to serve simultaneously in Congress.
The date marks the start of their overlapping congressional service, rather than their election date.
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The Chinese Football Association was founded on 3 January 1955. It became the national organisation responsible for association football in China.
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On 3 January 1956, a fire started in the Eiffel Tower’s television transmitter and damaged the top of the tower in Paris. Repairs took a year. A new radio aerial was added in 1957.
The date records the transmitter fire, not construction or the tower’s opening.
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On 3 January 1957, Hamilton unveiled the Ventura, a battery-powered wristwatch with an asymmetric case designed by Richard Arbib. It was part of Hamilton’s introduction of electric wristwatches, described in the company’s history as a first for watchmaking.
The date records the public unveiling of the Ventura, not the founding of the watch company.
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The West Indies Federation, also known as the West Indies, the Federation of the West Indies or the West Indian Federation, was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962. Various islands in the Caribbean that were part of the British Empire, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and those on the Leeward and Windward Islands, came together to form the Federation, with its capital in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the proclamation admitting Alaska to the United States as its 49th state. The statehood act had been signed into law the previous year.
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Aero Flight 311, often referred to as the Kvevlax air disaster, was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aero O/Y (now Finnair) between Kronoby and Vaasa in Finland. The aircraft, a Douglas DC-3, crashed in the municipality Kvevlax (Finnish: Koivulahti), nowadays part of Korsholm (Finnish: Mustasaari) on 3 January 1961, killing all twenty-five people on board. The disaster remains the deadliest aviation accident in Finnish history.
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On 3 January 1961, the United States formally notified Cuba that it was terminating diplomatic and consular relations. The notice cited a Cuban directive limiting the U.S. mission in Havana to eleven personnel.
This records delivery of the U.S. termination notice on 3 January; the Cuban note it cited was dated 2 January.
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Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, also known as SL-1, initially the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was a United States Army experimental nuclear reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) in Idaho about forty miles (65 km) west of Idaho Falls, now the Idaho National Laboratory. It operated from 1958 to 1961, when an accidental explosion killed three plant operators, leading to changes in reactor design.
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The 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état was an event which took place on 3 January 1966 in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), when following large-scale popular unrest, the military intervened against the government. This forced President Maurice Yaméogo to resign, and was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana. Lamizana would go on to rule until 1980, when yet another military coup d'état overthrew him.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 and 3 January 1972.
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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) on 16 December 1966 through GA. Resolution 2200A (XXI), and came into force on 3 January 1976. It commits its parties to work toward the granting of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) to all individuals including those living in Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories.
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Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, and known for consumer electronics, software and online services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. Its current name was adopted in 2007 as the company expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics.
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The second elections to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held on January 3, 1980. The election was held simultaneously to the 1980 Lok Sabha election. Thirty seats were up for election. A total of 95 candidates contested; 28 from the Indian National Congress (Indira), 28 from the People's Party of Arunachal, 11 from the Indian National Congress (Urs) and 28 independents. The PPA candidate in the Niausa Kanubari constituency, Wanglhu Wangshu, was elected unopposed. INC(I) won 13 seats (with 72,734 votes, 42.58%). The PPA also won 13 seats, with 70,006 votes (40.98%). The remaining four seats went to independents.
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Varig Flight 797 was a scheduled passenger flight from Abidjan, Ivory Coast to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On 3 January 1987, the Boeing 707 crashed during an emergency return to Abidjan, killing all 12 crew members and 38 of the 39 passengers. After an engine failure, the pilot decided to turn back but misjudged the approach and stalled the aircraft.
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Completion of the Gezhouba water-control project on the Yangtze at Yichang was formally announced. Its last generating unit had joined the grid in December.
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The United States invasion of Panama began on 20 December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. Its purpose was to depose Panama’s de facto ruler, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by United States authorities for racketeering and drug trafficking. Noriega surrendered to United States authorities on 3 January 1990. Operation Just Cause continued until 31 January 1990.
This entry records Noriega’s January 3 surrender, not the January 31 conclusion of Operation Just Cause.
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On Friday, January 3, 1992, a Beechcraft 1900C operating CommutAir Flight 4821 crashed into a wooded hillside near Gabriels, New York while conducting an ILS approach to Runway 23 at the Adirondack Regional Airport. The cause of the accident was determined to be pilot error. There were two people killed in the crash, and two survivors.
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The 1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia was an armed conflict between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), the Yugoslav Navy and the Yugoslav Air Force, and the Croatian National Guard (ZNG) then the Croatian Army (HV) during the Croatian War of Independence. The JNA was originally deployed in order to preserve Yugoslavia, and the initial plan of the campaign entailed the military occupation of Croatia and the removal of the Croatian leadership elected in 1990.
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Operation Hurricane-91 (Croatian: Operacija Orkan-91) was a military offensive undertaken by the Croatian Army (Hrvatska vojska – HV) against the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija – JNA) and SAO Western Slavonia Territorial Defense Forces in the Sava River valley, in the region of Western Slavonia during the Croatian War of Independence. The operation began on 29 October 1991 and ended on 3 January 1992 when a nationwide ceasefire was signed to implement the Vance plan.
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START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed by US president George H. W. Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin on 3 January 1993, banning the use of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Hence, it is often cited as the De-MIRV-ing Agreement.
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Baikal Airlines Flight 130 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Moscow operated by a Baikal Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 that crashed onto a dairy farm on 3 January 1994 in Mamony whilst the pilots were trying to return to the airport following a mid-air emergency. All 124 people on board were killed. Another person was killed on the ground.
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The 1995 Trophée des Champions was a football match held at Stade Francis-Le Blé, Brest on 3 January 1996, that saw 1994–95 Coupe de France winners Paris Saint-Germain F.C. defeat 1994–95 Division 1 champions FC Nantes 6–5 on penalty kicks after a draw of 2–2.
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The Mars Polar Lander, also known as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, was a 290-kilogram uncrewed spacecraft lander launched by NASA on January 3, 1999, to study the soil and climate of Planum Australe, a region near the south pole on Mars. It formed part of the Mars Surveyor '98 mission. On December 3, 1999, however, after the descent phase was expected to be complete, the lander failed to reestablish communication with Earth.
Mars Polar Lander was launched on January 3, 1999, at 20:21:10 UTC by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Space Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, aboard a Delta II 7425–9.5 launch vehicle.
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The IWRG 6th Anniversary Show was a major lucha libre event produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) professional wrestling promotion on January 3, 2002. The show was held in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, which is IWRG's primary venue. As the name indicates the event commemorates the anniversary of IWRG, which was founded on January 1, 1996. In the main event the team of El Pantera and Pentagón Black defeated Bombero Infernal and Último Vampiro in a Relevos Increibles ("Incredible relays") match. The Relevos Increibles match teamed two rivals up as a tag team to wrestle another pair of rivals.
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On 3 January 2002, Israeli naval commandos boarded and seized the Karine A in international waters in the Red Sea.
This records the interception at sea, rather than the ship’s later arrival in Eilat.
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Flash Airlines Flight 604 was a charter flight from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport in Egypt to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France, with a stop-over at Cairo International Airport, provided by Egyptian private charter company Flash Airlines. On 3 January 2004, the Boeing 737-300 that was operating the route crashed into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from Sharm El Sheikh, killing all 135 passengers, most of whom were French tourists, and all thirteen crew members.
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Operation Iron Hammer, also called Operation Matraqa Hadidia, was a military undertaking by the United States Armed Forces, and the New Iraqi Army, which was conducted east of Hīt, Iraq, from 30 November, to 3 January 2006, during the Iraq War, against the Iraqi insurgency. It was reported that both the New Iraqi Army, and the United States Armed Forces, sustained no losses during the operation.
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The Soliman shooting was a shootout that occurred on January 3, 2007 in the Tunisian region of Soliman, south-east of Tunis. The national police forces fought an armed group calling itself "Asad ibn al-Furat's army" which had been initially labeled by the government as "dangerous criminals". A previous shooting involving this same group had taken place on December 23, 2006, placing it in a context of jihadist terrorism and anarchist, insurgent, Islamist militancy.
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The 2008 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses took place on January 3, 2008. The Iowa Republican caucuses are an unofficial primary, with the delegates to the state convention selected proportionally via a straw poll. The Iowa caucuses mark the traditional formal start of the delegate selection process for the 2008 United States presidential election.
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The 2008 Iowa Democratic presidential caucus was held on January 3, and was the state caucuses of the Iowa Democratic Party. It was the first election for the Democrats of the 2008 presidential election. Also referred to as "the First in the Nation Caucus," it was the first election of the primary season on both the Democratic and Republican sides.
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On 3 January 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, known as the genesis block. The block marked the creation of the Bitcoin network. It included a newspaper headline dated 3 January 2009.
The date records the genesis block, not publication of the Bitcoin white paper or the first transfer to another user.
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The 2009–10 Indian Federation Cup final was the 32nd final of the Indian Federation Cup, the top knock-out competition in India, and was contested between Kolkata giants East Bengal and Shillong Lajong on 3 January 2010. East Bengal won the final 3–0 via penalty shootouts after the game ended 0–0 after added extra time, to claim their sixth Federation Cup title.
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The Marshall Islands parliament elected Christopher Loeak president on 3 January 2012. He defeated incumbent Jurelang Zedkaia by 21 votes to 11. This was the presidential vote in the newly elected legislature, following the November 2011 general election.
This was the presidential vote in the newly elected legislature, following the November 2011 general election.
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The 2012 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses took place on January 3, 2012. Using the media's generally accepted definition of the Iowa Republican caucus as the non-binding secret polling at caucus sites and using the incomplete data available, the 2012 Iowa Republican caucus was the closest race in Iowa caucus history with only a thirty-four vote margin (about 3⁄100th of a percent) separating former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who received 29,839 votes (24.56%), and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who received 29,805 votes (24.53%).
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The 2012 Plaid Cymru leadership election was held following the resignation of Ieuan Wyn Jones following the 2011 Assembly Elections. Following the election Jones originally stated that he would resign in the first half of the Assembly term. Nominations officially opened on 3 January 2012. The leadership was fought by former Agriculture Minister Elin Jones, former party leader Dafydd Elis-Thomas and backbencher Leanne Wood.
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Iowa Democrats met in precinct caucuses to choose delegates to their county conventions. Barack Obama was the only presidential candidate seeking the Democratic nomination at those caucuses.
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The Leyenda de Plata (2014) was professional wrestling tournament produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLLl; Spanish "World Wrestling Council") that ran from December 20, 2013, over the course of three of CMLL's Friday night shows in Arena México with the finals on January 3, 2014. The annual Leyenda de Plata tournament is held in honor of lucha libre legend El Santo and is one of CMLL's most important annual tournaments.
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UFC 182: Jones vs. Cormier was a mixed martial arts event held on January 3, 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The 2015 MFF Charity Cup is the 4th MFF Charity Cup, an annual Myanmar football match played between the winners of the previous season's Myanmar National League and 2014 MFF Cup. The match was contested by Ayeyawady United, the 2014 MFF Cup winners, and Yadanarbon F.C., champions of the 2014 Myanmar National League. It was held at Aung San Stadium on 3 January 2015.
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The 2015 Baga massacre was a series of mass killings carried out by the Boko Haram group in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Baga and its environs, in the state of Borno, between 3 January and 7 January 2015. The attack began on 3 January when Boko Haram overran a military base that was the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force containing troops from Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
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The IWRG 20th Anniversary Show was a major lucha libre event produced and scripted by the Mexican International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) professional wrestling promotion on January 3, 2016. The show was held in Arena Naucalpan, Naucalpan, State of Mexico, which is IWRG's primary venue. As the name indicates the event commemorates the anniversary of IWRG, which was founded on January 1, 1996. The main event of the IWRG 20th Anniversary Show was a Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match" where both Toscano and Danny Casas put their hair on the line. Toscano lost the match and as a result had all his hair shaved off afterwards.
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The 2015 SAFF Championship final was a football match that took place on 3 January 2016 at the Trivandrum International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, India, to determine the 2015 SAFF Championship winner. India defeated Afghanistan 2–1 in the extra time to win their seventh title after the match ended 1–1 in regular time.
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The 2016 MFF Charity Cup is the 5th MFF Charity Cup, an annual Myanmar football match played between the winners of the previous season's Myanmar National League and 2015 General Aung San Shield. The match was contested by Ayeyawady United, the 2015 General Aung San Shield winners, and Yangon United, champions of the 2015 Myanmar National League. It is held at Aung San Stadium on 3 January 2016.
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On 3 January 2016, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry announced that it would cut diplomatic ties with Iran.
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On January 3, 2017, the first day of the 115th United States Congress and two months after the 2016 U.S. House elections, the incoming members of the U.S. House of Representatives held an election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This was the 125th U.S. speaker election since the office was created in 1789.
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On January 3, 2019, the first day of the 116th United States Congress and two months after the 2018 U.S. House elections, the incoming members of the U.S. House of Representatives held an election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This was the 126th U.S. speaker election since the office was created in 1789. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi received 220 votes, a majority of the chamber, to become its speaker.
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Chang'e 4 (; Chinese: 嫦娥四号; pinyin: Cháng'é Sìhào; lit. 'Chang'e No. 4') is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the CNSA. It made a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, the first spacecraft to do so, on 3 January 2019. A communication relay satellite, Queqiao, was first launched to a halo orbit near the Earth–Moon L2 point in May 2018.
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On 3 January 2020, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was assassinated by an American drone strike ordered by U.S. president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, while travelling to meet Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi. Soleimani was commander of the Quds Force, one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is designated as a terrorist organization by both the United States and European Parliament.
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On January 3, 2021, rebels from the CPC coalition and FPRC attacked Bangassou, the capital of Mbomou, Central African Republic, sparking clashes with MINUSCA peacekeepers. The CPC captured Bangassou within hours on January 3, forcing thousands of civilians to flee to the Democratic Republic of the Congo or to the MINUSCA base in Bangassou. The CPC abandoned the city on January 17 following an ultimatum by MINUSCA.
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On January 3, 2021, the 1st day of the 117th Congress and 2 months after the 2020 U.S. House elections, the incoming members of the U.S. House of Representatives held an election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was the 127th U.S. speaker election since the office was created in 1789.
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On 3 January 2023, Zhou Lingzhao, a painter, died.
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Singapore’s Jurong Bird Park closed on January 3, 2023, after its final day of operation.
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On 3 January 2024, a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani at his grave in eastern Kerman, Iran, was attacked by two bomb explosions. The attacks killed at least 95 people, and injured 284 others. The Iranian government declared the bombings a terrorist attack, the deadliest such incident in the country since the Cinema Rex attack of 1978.
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The 2023 Trophée des Champions was the 28th edition of the French super cup. The match was contested by the 2022–23 Ligue 1 champions, Paris Saint-Germain, and the 2022–23 Coupe de France winners, Toulouse. Paris Saint-Germain won the match 2–0 for their record twelfth Trophée des Champions title.
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An election for speaker of the United States House of Representatives took place on January 3, 2025, on the opening day of the 119th United States Congress, two months after the 2024 elections for the United States House of Representatives. The incumbent speaker, Republican Mike Johnson of Louisiana, was re-elected on the first ballot, defeating Hakeem Jeffries with a slim 218–215 majority.
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