1749 The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published on January 3, 1749. Berlingske was founded by Denmark's Royal Book Printer Ernst Henrich Berling and originally titled Kjøbenhavnske Danske Post-Tidender, then the Berlingskes Politiske og Avertissements Tidende. Until 1903 it had an official right to publish news about the government. In 1936, the newspaper's title was shortened to Berlingske Tidende.
1795 The pottery designer and manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood died, probably of cancer of the jaw, at 64 in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent on January 3, 1795. Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today (as part of Waterford Wedgwood). "Wedgwood China" is sometimes used as a term for his Jasperware, the colored stoneware with applied relief decoration (usually white), still common throughout the world.
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| The historic first cover page of Berlingske (1749) |
1795 The pottery designer and manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood died, probably of cancer of the jaw, at 64 in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent on January 3, 1795. Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today (as part of Waterford Wedgwood). "Wedgwood China" is sometimes used as a term for his Jasperware, the colored stoneware with applied relief decoration (usually white), still common throughout the world.
1833 In December 1832, the United Kingdom dispatched two naval ships after the United Provinces of the River Plate (which later became Argentina) disregarded British diplomatic protests concerning the appointment of Luis Vernet as governor of the Falkland Islands. On January 3, 1833, the two British naval vessels reached the Falkland Islands, with the United Kingdom reaffirming sovereignty over the territory, even as Argentina continued to assert its claim to the islands.
1848 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a wealthy free-born Black American from Virginia who settled in Liberia, was sworn in on January 3, 1848 as the country's first president. In 1872 he was elected again to serve as Liberia's seventh president.
1863 At first Santa Claus was drawn in his bishop robes, but with possible influences from the earlier English figure of Father Christmas. German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast's image of him, on the cover of the January 3, 1863, issue of Harper's Weekly was based on the traditional German figures of Sankt Nikolaus and Weihnachtsmann. His picture began the journey towards today's image of Santa Claus as a portly, joyous, white-bearded man.
1870 The ground was broken for the construction of New York City's Brooklyn Bridge on January 3, 1870. It took 13 years, 600 workers and cost $15 million. Brooklyn Bridge, at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world, opened on May 24, 1883.
1883 Clement Atlee, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, was born in Putney, London on January 3, 1883 to Henry Attlee, a solicitor, and Ellen Bravery Watson. His Labour government carried out their manifesto commitment for nationalization of basic industries and public utilities. By 1951 about 20% of the British economy had been taken into public ownership. They also presided over the decolonization of a large part of the British Empire including India and Pakistan.
1888 Marvin Stone of Washington, D.C., patented the paraffin-covered paper drinking straw on January 3, 1888. He made his first prototypes by winding a strip of paper around a pencil and gluing it at the ends. Prior to Stone's paper straw, people used natural rye grass straws, which were undesirable because they imparted a grassy flavor in beverages.
1892 Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J. R. R. Tolkien was born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on January 3, 1892. He was known to his family as Ronald. John came from his grandfather and great-grandfather, and Reuel was his father's middle name. By the age of 16, he'd lost both parents. A catholic priest, Father Francis Morgan, took over his upbringing.
1848 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a wealthy free-born Black American from Virginia who settled in Liberia, was sworn in on January 3, 1848 as the country's first president. In 1872 he was elected again to serve as Liberia's seventh president.
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| Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first and seventh president of Liberia. |
1863 At first Santa Claus was drawn in his bishop robes, but with possible influences from the earlier English figure of Father Christmas. German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast's image of him, on the cover of the January 3, 1863, issue of Harper's Weekly was based on the traditional German figures of Sankt Nikolaus and Weihnachtsmann. His picture began the journey towards today's image of Santa Claus as a portly, joyous, white-bearded man.
1870 The ground was broken for the construction of New York City's Brooklyn Bridge on January 3, 1870. It took 13 years, 600 workers and cost $15 million. Brooklyn Bridge, at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world, opened on May 24, 1883.
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| Under construction, c. 1872 – c. 1887 |
1883 Clement Atlee, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, was born in Putney, London on January 3, 1883 to Henry Attlee, a solicitor, and Ellen Bravery Watson. His Labour government carried out their manifesto commitment for nationalization of basic industries and public utilities. By 1951 about 20% of the British economy had been taken into public ownership. They also presided over the decolonization of a large part of the British Empire including India and Pakistan.
1888 Marvin Stone of Washington, D.C., patented the paraffin-covered paper drinking straw on January 3, 1888. He made his first prototypes by winding a strip of paper around a pencil and gluing it at the ends. Prior to Stone's paper straw, people used natural rye grass straws, which were undesirable because they imparted a grassy flavor in beverages.
1892 Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J. R. R. Tolkien was born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on January 3, 1892. He was known to his family as Ronald. John came from his grandfather and great-grandfather, and Reuel was his father's middle name. By the age of 16, he'd lost both parents. A catholic priest, Father Francis Morgan, took over his upbringing.
1895 Oscar Wilde's stage play An Ideal Husband opened on January 3, 1895 and continued for 124 performances until Wilde's arrest for "gross indecency." His most autobiographical play, it's ironic that An Ideal Husband was the last play before Wilde's fall as it features Sir Robert Chiltern MP who is faced with public disgrace.
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| Alois Hitler |
1933 On January 3, 1933, Minnie D. Craig was elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States. North Dakota was suffering from an agricultural depression caused by drought and the session proved challenging for Craig. Her tenure as an elected member of the legislature ended in 1935 when she left to become a state worker for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
1938 President Franklin D Roosevelt launched the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis on January 3, 1938. FDR asked radio personality Eddie Cantor to help and Cantor began the first campaign on his own radio show, asking people to mail a dime to the nation's most famous polio victim, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other entertainers joined in the appeal via their own shows, and the White House mail room was deluged with 2,680,000 dimes.
1946 William Joyce, aka Lord Haw-Haw, was a Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. His "Jairmany Calling" broadcasts delivered in an upper-class drawl had been part of the very fabric of the Home Front during World War II. Nearly as many people listened to his broadcasts as to the BBC. Even the young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, used to tune in. Joyce became the last civilian in Britain to be hanged for treason on January 3, 1946.
1950 The oldest conjoined twins ever (female) Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova were born January 3, 1950 in the Soviet Union and lived 53 years and 104 days. Masha and Dasha were a rare form of conjoined twins - two heads, four arms and two legs.
1951 Sam Phillips, a radio engineer at Memphis radio station WREC-AM, opened Sun Studio along with his good friend and assistant, Marion Keister on January 3, 1951. Originally named Memphis Recording Service, the famous Sun Studio was located at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. The studio was to be the home of future recordings from Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others.
1956 Before he was "The King of Rock and Roll," Elvis Presley was "The Folk Music Fireball." That's how he was introduced on January 3, 1956 at the Von Theater in Booneville, Mississippi. This nickname accurately captures the unique musical blend he presented before his iconic sound solidified
1957 The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch on January 3, 1957. This had no mainspring, the mechanism being kept in motion by the mutual attraction of a permanent magnet and an electromagnet, which pushed the balance wheel.
1959 Alaska became the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959. The region had been under U.S. control since its purchase from Russia in 1867. The name Alaska came from a native American word meaning "object to which the action of the sea is directed."
1967 Lee Harvey Oswald, the prime suspect in the murder of President Kennedy, was fatally shot by nightclub owner Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963. A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald. but the conviction was overturned. The retrial did not happen because Ruby died on January 3, 1967 from a blood clot that lodged in his lungs. He was suffering from lung cancer.
1969 Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1968 and took office on January 3, 1969, representing New York's 12th congressional district. Shirley Chisholm was a trailblazer in American politics and later became the first African-American woman to seek a major party nomination for the presidency in 1972.
1969 German race driver Michael Schumacher was born in Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on January 3, 1969 to Rolf Schumacher, and his wife Elisabeth. When Schumacher was four, his father attached a motorcycle engine to his pedal kart. The contraption didn’t work so well and Michael crashed it into a lamp post, however he started getting interest in motor sport from that time.
1970 English missionary and humanitarian Gladys Aylward died on January 3, 1970. In 1942 Gladys Aylward led 94 orphans to safety over the Chinese mountains after the Japanese invasion, despite being wounded herself. Aylward died just short of her 68th birthday, and is buried in a small cemetery on the campus of Christ's College in Guandu, New Taipei, Taiwan. She was known to the Chinese as "Ài Wěi Dé" - a Chinese approximation to 'Aylward' – meaning 'Virtuous One'.
1977 Apple Computer was co-founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne and incorporated on January 3, 1977. Steve Jobs named the company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the phone book before Atari, his former workplace. The company was later renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 to reflect its expanded focus beyond computers to include a broader range of consumer electronics and services.
1990 The United States Invasion of Panama, code named Operation Just Cause, was an invasion of Panama by the United States during the winter of 1989-90. General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrendered to American forces on January 3, 1990.
1996 The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell/flip mobile phone, was released on January 3, 1996. The StarTAC was among the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption; approximately 60 million StarTACs were sold.
2009 The bitcoin cryptocurrency network was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain, known as the genesis block, on January 3, 2009. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the computer programmer who invented the digital currency is unknown. It could represent a man, a woman, or even a group of people.
2019 Chang'e 4 was an unmanned lunar exploration mission operated by the China National Space Administration. Chang'e 4 achieved the first soft-landing on the far side of the Moon, when it touched down on January 3, 2019 at 02:26 UTC. Like its predecessors, the mission is named after Chang'e, the Chinese Moon goddess.
1969 German race driver Michael Schumacher was born in Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on January 3, 1969 to Rolf Schumacher, and his wife Elisabeth. When Schumacher was four, his father attached a motorcycle engine to his pedal kart. The contraption didn’t work so well and Michael crashed it into a lamp post, however he started getting interest in motor sport from that time.
1970 English missionary and humanitarian Gladys Aylward died on January 3, 1970. In 1942 Gladys Aylward led 94 orphans to safety over the Chinese mountains after the Japanese invasion, despite being wounded herself. Aylward died just short of her 68th birthday, and is buried in a small cemetery on the campus of Christ's College in Guandu, New Taipei, Taiwan. She was known to the Chinese as "Ài Wěi Dé" - a Chinese approximation to 'Aylward' – meaning 'Virtuous One'.
1977 Apple Computer was co-founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne and incorporated on January 3, 1977. Steve Jobs named the company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the phone book before Atari, his former workplace. The company was later renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 to reflect its expanded focus beyond computers to include a broader range of consumer electronics and services.
1990 The United States Invasion of Panama, code named Operation Just Cause, was an invasion of Panama by the United States during the winter of 1989-90. General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrendered to American forces on January 3, 1990.
1996 The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell/flip mobile phone, was released on January 3, 1996. The StarTAC was among the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption; approximately 60 million StarTACs were sold.
2009 The bitcoin cryptocurrency network was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain, known as the genesis block, on January 3, 2009. The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the computer programmer who invented the digital currency is unknown. It could represent a man, a woman, or even a group of people.
2019 Chang'e 4 was an unmanned lunar exploration mission operated by the China National Space Administration. Chang'e 4 achieved the first soft-landing on the far side of the Moon, when it touched down on January 3, 2019 at 02:26 UTC. Like its predecessors, the mission is named after Chang'e, the Chinese Moon goddess.
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