On this day in History - Jan. 03

• 106 BC - Cicero, was born, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC).
• 0236 - St Anterus ends his reign as Catholic Pope .
• 0269 - St Felix I begins his reign as Catholic Pope .
• 1322 - Philip V, king of France (b. 1293) dies.
• 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
• 1521 -Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X.
• 1543 -Juan Cabrillo, Conqueror of Cen America, discoverer of California, dies .
• 1552 -Henry II of Bavaria, Bishop of Utrecht (1524-29), dies at 64.
• 1667 -Russia & Poland sign Truce of Androsovo.
• 1749 - Benning Wentworth issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1759 -Marquis & Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed.
• 1777- George Washington defeated Cornwallis's forces at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1787 - É inaugurado o Observatório Astronómico da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, instalado no Castelo de São Jorge.
• 1793 - Lucretia Mott, was born, American women's rights activist and abolitionist (d. 1880).
• 1803 - Douglas William Jerrold, was born, British dramatic playwright and political satirist (d. 1857 ) .
• 1810 - Antoine-Thomson d'Abbadie was born, [d.1897];French geographer, born with his brother Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815-93) in Ireland, who were notable for their extensive travels in Ethiopia where they studied its geology, natural history and archaeology.
• 1815 - Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia.
• 1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico .
• 1823- Robert Whitehead was born [d.1905]; British engineer who invented the modern torpedo .
• 1829 - Konrad Duden, philologist (d. 1911) .
• 1833 - Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 1834 -The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City .
• 1839 - Casemiro de Abreu, poeta brasileiro nasceu neste dia.
• 1840 - One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Port Phillip Herald is founded by George Cavanaugh.
• 1855 - Hubert Bland, was born, English socialist and co-founder of Fabian Society (d. 1914)
• 1861- American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States .
• 1868 -Franz Cumont was born [d. 1947];Belgian archaeologist and philologist who strongly influenced the modern Protestant school of the history of religions through his fundamental studies, particularly on Roman pagan cults.
• 1868 - The Japanese Meiji dynasty is restored and the Shogunate is abolished.
• 1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began. It was completed on May 24, 1883
• 1871 - oleomargarine was patented by Henry Bradley in Binghamton, NY. A "compound for culinary use" called margarine.
• 1875 - Pierre Larousse, dies; French editor and encyclopedist (b. 1817) .
• 1875- George Bizet composer, dies .
• 1876 - Wilhelm Pieck, was born, co-founder German Communist Party - President (1949-60).
• 1879 - Grace Coolidge, was born First Lady of the United States (d. 1957) .
• 1883 - Clement Attlee, was born Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967) .
• 1887 - August Macke, was born, German painter (d. 1914).
• 1888 - The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
• 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, was born in South African; English writer and philologist (d. 1973) -"The Lord of the Rings" creator.
• 1897 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987) .
• 1897 - Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961) .
• 1899 - The first known use of the word automobile, in an editorial in the New York Times.
• 1901 - Ngo Dinh Diem,was born President of South Vietnam (d. 1963) .
• 1905 - Anna May Wong, was born Chinese-American actress (d. 1961) .
• 1906 - William Wilson Morgan,was born [d.1994]; American astronomer who, in 1951, provided the first evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy has spiral arms. He spent his entire career at the Yerkes Observatory, including three years as director.
• 1907 - Ray Milland, was born,Welsh actor (d. 1986) .
• 1909 - Victor Borge, was born, Danish entertainer and humorist (d. 2000) .
• 1911 - John Sturges, was born, director .
• 1916 - Betty Furness, was born American actress, consumer activist (d. 1994) .
• 1917 - Assinada uma Convenção com a Grã-bretanha para regulamentação da participação portuguesa na frente europeia, durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. O Corpo Expedicionário Português (CEP) ficará subordinado ao BEF (British Expeditionary Force).
• 1920 - Terremotos y volcanes en erupción destruyeron varias ciudades mexicanas y ocasionaron más de 7.000 víctimas.
• 1920 - Renato Carosone, was born Italian musician and singer (d. 2001).
• 1920 -The New York Yankees acquired Babe Ruth and so began the "curse of the Bambino" that haunted the Boston Red Sox until 2004.
• 1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, dies, Czech novelist (b. 1883) .
• 1924 - O egiptólogo inglês Howard Carter descobriu o sarcófago do faraó Tutankhamon, no Vale dos Reis, perto de Luxor, após vários anos de buscas.
• 1924 - Hank Stram, was born American football coach, broadcaster .
• 1925-Benito Mussolini dissolves Italian Parliament and announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 1926 - George Martin, was born , producer of The Beatles' records .
• 1926 - Theodorus Pángulos names himself dictator of Greece.
• 1929 - Sergio Leone, was born Italian director (d. 1989) .
• 1939 - Bobby Hull, was born Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1941 - Van Dyke Parks, was born American musician, composer .
• 1941 - World War II: North Africa 5,000 Prisoners are taken by Australian troops during a major assault on Italian forces at Bardia.
• 1942 - John Thaw, was born British actor (d. 2002) .
• 1944 - Morrem mais de 500 pessoas em um choque entre um trem de viajantes e uma locomotiva em um túnel, sendo o maior desastre ferroviário espanhol.
• 1945 - Stephen Stills, was born American singer, songwriter, and guitarist .
• 1945 - Victoria Principal, was born in Fukuoka, Japan; American actress ( Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas).
• 1946 - John Paul Jones, was born English bassist from Led Zeppelin .
• 1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1947 -Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time.
• 1955 -Jose Ramon Guizado becomes President of Panama .
• 1956 - Mel Gibson, was born Australian actor and director .
• 1957 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1958 - West Indies Federation formed.
• 1958 -Sir Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole overland.
• 1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• 1960 - Álvaro Cunhal fugiu da prisão de Peniche, tendo sido auxiliado por alguns pescadores.
• 1961 - The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba.
• 1961 - The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho leaks radiation, killing three workers at the installation. The radiation is contained.
• 1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• 1963 - University of Telaviv is officialy founded.
• 1966 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California.
• 1967 -Jack Ruby, the man who shot John Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, died.
• 1969 - Michael Schumacher, was born , German Formula One driver .
• 1970 -Marxist government takes over in Congo .
• 1971 -Cave paintings, dated to 6,000 BC, are discovered in the Uweinat Mountains, Egypt.
• 1973 - Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner.
• 1974 - Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as Premier of Spain .
• 1974 - Burma accepts its constitution .
• 1980- Joy Adamson dies [b. 1910] ; Naturalist, conservationalist and author of the best-selling book "Born Free," was killed in Northern Kenya by a servant in a wage dispute.
• 1980 - Francisco Sá Carneiro toma posse como primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo .
• 1980 - Gold hits record $634 an ounce .
• 1985 - Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews .
• 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1989 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement .
• 1990 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces.
• 1991 -Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.
• 1992 - Radomiro Tomic, Chilean President (1970), dies .
• 1993 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START2).
• 1994 - An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkhutsk, Russia killing 125 including 1 on the ground .
• 1994 -100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.
• 1995 -Sri Lanka: Cease-fire agreement between government and Tamil rebels.
• 1998 - El presidente de México Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León acepta la denuncia formal de su ministro del Interior, acusado de ser el máximo responsable de la matanza de 45 indígenas en Chiapas.
• 2000 -No estado norte-americano de West Virginia, são iniciadas as negociações de paz entre Israel e Síria.
• 2000 - The last Peanuts comic strip was created by Charles Schulz.
• 2002 - Israeli commandos seize Iranian ship Karim A. in international waters in the Red Sea some 500 km south of Elat. The ship is captained by a Palestinian and carries 50 tons of mainly Iranian-manufactured arms and munitions, including mortars and anti-tank missiles .
• 2003 - O empresário Jair Ruvieri, sequestrado há 92 dias em Mato Grosso, é encontrado e resgatado pela Divisão Anti Sequestro.
• 2003 - José María Gironella, dies from a blood clot on the brain, Catalan author, born on 31 December 1917 [Los Cipreses Creen en Dios (1953), Un Millón de Muertos (1961), Ha Estallado la Paz (1966). Los Hombres Lloran Solos (1986) Se Hace Camino al Andar (1997)...]
• 2004 - Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard.