Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 3

This is a list of selected January 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Pope Leo X
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  Lick Observatory
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  James Lick telescope
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  Battle of Princeton by John Trumbull
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  Motorola StarTAC
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  George Woolf and Seabiscuit
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  Winston Churchill in 1912
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  Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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  Bust of Decius

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1749 – Benning Wentworth, Governor of the New Hampshire Colony, began to issue the New Hampshire Grants on land which was also claimed by New York, and is now Vermont.	needs more footnotes
1833 – With the arrival of two British naval ships at the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom re-asserted sovereignty there.	Orange "more citations needed" banner
1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first president of Liberia.	refimprove
1919 – Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.	Uncited sections
1946 – Canadian-American jockey George Woolf, who rode Seabiscuit to a famous victory over War Admiral in 1938, was fatally injured when he fell from his horse during a race.	refimprove section
1949 – The first Central Bank of the Philippines was formally inaugurated with Miguel Cuaderno, Sr. as the first governor.	refimprove section
1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the world's first electric watch.	unreferenced section; electric watch: refimprove
1958 – Ten former British colonies in the Caribbean joined to form a new self-governing West Indies Federation.	needs more footnotes
1959 – As a result of the Alaska Statehood Act, the Territory of Alaska became the 49th U.S. state, and the first outside of the contiguous United States.	refimprove section
1990 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed strongman of Panama, surrendered to American forces.	neutrality
1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell mobile phone, was released and went on to become one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 250 – Emperor Decius ordered everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods, resulting in widespread persecution of Christians.
• 1521 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther for refusing to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under General George Washington defeated British troops at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1888 – The 36-inch (91 cm) refracting telescope (pictured) at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time.
• 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the operational involvement of Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary.
• 1973 – CBS announced the sale of the New York Yankees professional baseball team to a group of investors headed by American businessman George Steinbrenner.
• 1976 – The multilateral International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, part of the International Bill of Human Rights, came into effect.
• 2002 – Israeli forces seized MV Karine A, which was carrying 50 tonnes of smuggled weapons on behalf of the Palestinian National Authority.
• Born/died this day: | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle |d|1670| William Leslie |d|1777| Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie |b|1810| Savitribai Phule |b|1831| William Harrison Ainsworth |d|1882|Clement Attlee |b|1883|Cyril Bassett |b|1892| J. R. R. Tolkien |b|1892| Anna May Wong |b|1905 | Frenchy Bordagaray |b|1910| Joy Adamson |d|1980

Notes

• Battle of the Assunpink Creek appears on January 2 and Washington's crossing of the Delaware/Battle of Trenton appears on December 25, so Battle of Princeton should not appear if either of the two are used

January 3

First issue of Berlingske

• 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske (front page pictured), Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
• 1911 – An earthquake registering 7.7 M_w destroyed Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
• 1938 – The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for polio research.
• 1961 – All 25 people on board Aero Flight 311 died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when the aircraft crashed near Kvevlax.
• 2009 – The cryptocurrency network of bitcoin was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.

• Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (d. 1743)
• Oliver Bosbyshell (b. 1839)
• Mona Best (b. 1924)
• Lynn Hill (b. 1961)

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• January 2
• January 3
• January 4