January 3 is the 3nd day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 362 days left until the end of the year (363 in leap years).
Railways
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Events
- 1431 – Jeanne d'Arc is delivered to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
- 1496 - Leonardo da Vinci tested a flying machine, but failed.
- 1521 - Martin Luther is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1777 - American General George Washington defeats British General Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1888 – The new telescope with a diameter of 91 cm, put into service at the “Lick Observatory” in California, became the world's largest telescope to date.
- 1889 - Nietzsche lost his mind.
- 1914 – Enver Pasha was appointed to the Ministry of War with the rank of Mirliva.
- 1917 – In Ardahan Arap Mosque, 373 Turks were burned by Armenian gangs along with the mosque.
- 1922 – Liberation of Mersin from enemy occupation.
- 1924 – The stone sarcophagus of Tutankhamun was found in a temple in Luxor, Egypt.
- 1925 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini gathered all the powers in his hands.
- 1928 – Patriots revolted in Nicaragua, led by Augusto César Sandino. The United States sent over 1000 marines to fight.
- 1930 – Mustafa Kemal Pasha was registered as the first member of the National Economy and Savings Society.
- 1945 – Turkey decided to cut off relations with Japan.
- 1946 – II. William Joyce, a pro-Nazi broadcaster in the United Kingdom during World War II, was executed in London for treason.
- 1952 – Earthquake in Erzurum and Hasankale: 69 people died, 299 people were injured.
- 1953 – play by Samuel Beckett Waiting for GodotIt was staged in Paris.
- 1959 - United States President Eisenhower announces that Alaska joins the United States as the 49th state.
- 1961 - The United States broke off relations with Cuba.
- 1961 – The trial of 49 people accused of wanting to establish an independent Kurdish state begins in Ankara.
- 1962 - Pope XXIII. John excommunicated Fidel Castro.
- 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force.
- 1977 – The historical Halil Pasha Mansion in Beylerbeyi was burned.
- 1978 - In India, Indira Gandhi was expelled from the Congress Party.
- 1986 – Trading of stocks in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) began.
- 1988 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the UK's longest-serving Prime Minister in the 20th century.
- 1990 – Overthrown Panamanian President Manuel Noriega surrenders to United States forces at the Vatican Embassy in Panama City, where he has taken refuge for the past 10 days.
- 1990 – by İbrahim Balaban “Migration” was sold for 45 million TL; This was the highest price paid for the work of a living artist.
- 1993 - United States President George HW Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the START-2 agreement, which provides for a reduction in strategic nuclear weapons.
- 1994 – A Russian passenger plane of the Tupolev Tu-154 type crashes in Irkutsk (Russia) just after takeoff: 125 people are killed.
- 2004 – A Boeing 737 type passenger plane belonging to Flash Air, the private airline of Egypt, crashed into the Red Sea: 148 people died.
- 2009 – The Israeli Army begins ground operations against the Gaza Strip.
Births
- 106 BC – Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 1196 – Tsuchimikado, Emperor of Japan (d. 1231)
- 1509 – Gian Girolamo Albani, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal of Albanian descent (d. 1591)
- 1628 – II. Alvise Mocenigo, Duke of the Republic of Venice (d. 1709)
- 1698 – Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet and librarian (d. 1782)
- 1774 – Juan Aldama, Mexican Captain (fought on the side of revolutionary rebels in the Mexican War of Independence) (d. 1811)
- 1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, French Princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)
- 1794 – Joseph Lebeau, Belgian liberal politician and twice Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1865)
- 1810 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French traveler (d. 1897)
- 1818 – Henrik Johan Holmberg, Finnish naturalist, geologist, and ethnographer (d. 1864)
- 1823 – Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, German orchidologist (d. 1889)
- 1829 – Konrad Duden, German philologist and lexicographer (d. 1911)
- 1836 Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai (d. 1867)
- 1840 – Reverend Damien, Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1889)
- 1846 Franklin Murphy, American politician (d. 1920)
- 1860 – Kato Takaaki, Japanese politician and 24th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1926)
- 1861 – William Renshaw, English tennis player (d. 1904)
- 1862 – Heinrich August Meissner, German engineer (d. 1940)
- 1872 – Jonas Vileišis, Lithuanian lawyer, politician, and diplomat (d. 1942)
- 1873 – Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin, Russian revolutionary and co-founder of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Bolsheviks) (d. 1906)
- 1875 – Luigi Gatti, Italian businessman and restaurateur (d. 1912)
- 1876 – Wilhelm Pieck, German politician, director of the Communist Party of Germany and the Comintern, first President of East Germany (d. 1960)
- 1879 – Grace Coolidge, US first lady (d. 1957)
- 1880 – Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara Emirate and Uzbek Mangit Dynasty (d. 1944)
- 1883 – Clement Attlee, British politician (d. 1967)
- 1887 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1892 – JRR Tolkien, English novelist and scholar (published 1954-55 Lord of the Rings trilogy) (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Pola Negri, American actress (d. 1987)
- 1901 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician and President of South Vietnam (d. 1963)
- 1903 – Alexander Bek, Soviet journalist and writer (d. 1972)
- 1906 – Aleksey Stakhanov, Soviet miner and pioneer of Stakhanovism (d. 1977)
- 1907 – Ray Milland, English actor and Academy Award winner for Best Actor (d. 1986)
- 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch artist (d. 2004)
- 1928 – Nazmiye Demirel, wife of Turkey's 9th President Süleyman Demirel (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
- 1930 – Robert Loggia, Italian-Jewish American actor (d. 2015)
- 1933 – Henry Jean-Baptiste, French politician (d. 2018)
- 1933 – Süleyman Ateş, Turkish theologian, Islamic jurist and 6th President of Religious Affairs
- 1937 – Oytun Şanal, Turkish theater and voice actor (d. 2018)
- 1943 – Köksal Toptan, Turkish lawyer and politician
- 1943 – Selda Alkor, Turkish film actress
- 1944 – Eva Bender, Swedish actress
- 1944 – Mehmet Türker, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 2017)
- 1946 – John Paul Jones, English musician
- 1946 – Melih Gülgen, Turkish cinema director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2017)
- 1950 - Victoria Principal is an American actress.
- 1951 – Carlos Barisio, Argentine football player (d. 2020)
- 1952 – Jim Ross, American professional wrestling announcer, referee, restaurateur, occasional professional wrestler
- 1953 – Mohammed Vahid Hasan, politician, former President of the Maldives and Commander-in-Chief of the Maldives National Defense Forces
- 1953 - Peter Taylor is an English football player and manager.
- 1955 – Guy Yelda, French ambassador
- 1956 – Mel Gibson, Australian actor and film director
- 1963 – Hamza Yanılmaz, Turkish politician (d. 2011)
- 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German Formula 1 driver
- 1971 - Cory Cross, He is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defender.
- 1974 – Alessandro Petacchi is a retired Italian professional road cyclist.
- 1976 – Angelos Basinas, Greek former international football player
- 1977 Lee Bowyer, English national football player
- 1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice artist (seiyuu)
- 1980 – Claudio Maldonado, Chilean football player
- 1980 – Kurt Vile, American musician
- 1980 – Necati Ateş, Turkish football player
- 1980 – Yusuf Demirkol, Turkish singer and composer
- 1983 – Enis Arikan, Turkish actor
- 1984 – Billy Mehmet, Turkish-Irish football player
- 1985 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian former professional national basketball player
- 1985 – Marko Tomas, Croatian basketball player
- 1986 – Asa Akira, Japanese-American pornographic film actress
- 1990 – Yoichiro Kakitani, Japanese national football player
- 1991 - Jerson Cabral is a Dutch football player.
- 1991 – Özgür Çek, Turkish football player
- 1994 – Melek Yusufoğlu, Turkish basketball player
- 1995 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean singer and actress
- 1995 – Kim Seolhyun, South Korean singer and actress
- 1996 - Florence Pugh, English actress
- 2003 – Greta Thunberg, a Swedish activist
- 2003 - Kyle Rittenhouse, An American known for shooting three people, two fatally, during the civil uprising at age 17.
Deaths
- 236 – Anterus, 19th Pope of the Catholic Church (b. ?)
- 1028 – Fujiwara no Michinaga, Japanese statesman (b. 966)
- 1322 – Philip V, King of France (b. 1292)
- 1501 – Ali Şir Nevai, Turkish poet (b. 1441)
- 1543 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Spanish-Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
- 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
- 1692 – Roelant Roghman, Dutch Golden Age painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1627)
- 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Venetian Italian composer (b. 1706)
- 1799 – Sheikh Galip, Turkish divan literature poet and mystic (b. 1757)
- 1826 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French soldier and field marshal (b. 1770)
- 1875 – Pierre Larousse, French encyclopedia and lexicographer (b. 1817)
- 1891 – John Casey, Irish geometer (b. 1820)
- 1897 – Louis de Mas Latrie, French historian and diplomat (b. 1815)
- 1903 – Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
- 1916 – Grenville M. Dodge, American general and politician (b. 1831)
- 1922 – Wilhelm Voigt, German forger and shoemaker (b. 1849)
- 1923 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (b. 1883)
- 1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
- 1946 – William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
- 1950 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and Academy Award winner for Best Actor (b. 1884)
- 1958 – Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1878)
- 1965 – Milton Avery, American painter (b. 1885)
- 1967 – Jack Ruby, American nightclub operator (who killed Lee Harvey Oswald) (b. 1911)
- 1979 – Conrad Hilton, American businessman and founder of Hilton Hotels (b. 1887)
- 1979 – Ernesto Palacio, Argentine historian (b. 1900)
- 1989 – Sergey Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
- 2002 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch brewer (b. 1923)
- 2005 – Faruk Sükan, Turkish politician (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Mustafa Taşar, Turkish politician (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Nezir Büyükcengiz, Turkish politician and CHP Konya Deputy (b. 1951)
- 2009 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Mary Daly, American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian (b. 1928)
- 2011 – Jill Haworth, British-American actress (b. 1945)
- 2012 – Hamit Haskabal, Turkish actor (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian director and politician (b. 1930)
- 2014 – Alicia Rhett, American actress and painter (b. 1915)
- 2014 – Faruk Geç, Turkish journalist, painter, comic-novelist and illustrator (b. 1931)
- 2014 – Saul Zaentz, American filmmaker (b. 1921)
- 2015 – Derek Minter, British motorcycle racer (b. 1932)
- 2015 – Muaz al-Kasasibe, Jordanian fighter pilot (b. 1988)
- 2015 – Olga Knyazeva, Soviet-Russian fencer (b. 1954)
- 2015 – Edward Brooke, US politician (b.1919)[1]
- 2016 – Bill Plager, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1945)
- 2016 – Halis Toprak, Turkish businessperson (b. 1938)
- 2016 – Peter Powell, English inventor (b. 1932)
- 2016 – Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (b. 1946)
- 2016 – Peter Naur, Danish IT specialist (b. 1928)
- 2016 – Igor Sergun, Russian colonel general (b.1957)[2]
- 2017 – Erk Yurtsever, Turkish poet, writer and Turkologist (b. 1934)
- 2017 – Igor Volk, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut and test pilot (b. 1937)
- 2017 – Rodney Bennett, British television and film director (b. 1935)
- 2017 – Shigeru Kōyama, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
- 2018 – Konrad Ragossnig, Austrian classical guitarist, educator and lute player (b. 1932)
- 2018 – Medeniyet Şahberdiyeva, opera singer from Turkmenistan (b. 1930)
- 2018 – Serafino Sprovieri, Italian Catholic bishop (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Sylvia Chase, American investigative journalist and TV personality (b. 1938)
- 2019 – Sayed Ashraful Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1952)
- 2019 – Herb Kelleher, American entrepreneur, businessman, and executive (b. 1931)
- 2019 – Anne-Marie Minvielle, French journalist (b. 1943)
- 2019 – Steve Ripley, American blues musician (b. 1950)
- 2019 – Christine de Rivoyre, French journalist, novelist, and author (b. 1921)
- 2019 – José Vida Soria, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
- 2019 – Michael Yeung, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1945)
- 2020 – Derek Acorah, English psychic, author, former football player and television presenter (b. 1950)
- 2020 – Andonis Balomenakis, Greek politician and lawyer (b. 1954)
- 2020 – Christopher Beeny, English actor and dancer (b. 1941)
- 2020 – Robert Blanche, American film and television actor (b. 1962)
- 2020 – Pete Brewster, American football player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2020 – Wolfgang Brezinka, German-Austrian educator and scientist (b. 1928)
- 2020 – Domenico Corcione, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1929)
- 2020 – Mónica Echeverría, Chilean journalist, writer, actress and professor of literature (b. 1920)
- 2020 – Ken Fuson, American journalist (b. 1956)
- 2020 – Reuben Hersh, American mathematician, author, and academic (b. 1927)
- 2020 – Nathaël Julan, French football player (b. 1996)
- 2020 – Stella Maris Leverberg, Argentine politician and trade unionist b. 1962)
- 2020 – Abu Mahdi al-Engineer, Iraqi-Iranian soldier (b. 1954)
- 2020 – Qassem Soleimani, Iranian soldier (b. 1957)
- 2021 – Raúl Baglini, Argentine politician and lawyer (b. 1949)
- 2021 – Lee Breuer, American playwright, theater director, academic, educator, filmmaker, poet, and songwriter (b. 1937)
- 2021 – Eric Jerome Dickey, American author (b. 1961)
- 2021 – Roger Hassenforder, French professional cyclist (b. 1930)
- 2021 – Naohiro Ikeda, Japanese volleyball player (b. 1940)
- 2021 – Renate Lasker-Harpprecht, German writer and journalist (b. 1924)
- 2021 – Gerry Marsden, English pop-rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and television presenter (b. 1942)
- 2021 – Manola Robles, Chilean journalist (b. 1948)
- 2021 – Elena Santiago, Spanish writer (b. 1941)
- 2021 – Barbara Shelley, English actress (b. 1932)
- 2022 – Oussou Konan, Ivory Coast football player (b. 1989)
- 2022 – Gianni Celati, Italian writer, translator, and literary critic (b. 1937)
- 2022 – Mario Lanfranchi, Italian producer, director, screenwriter, actor and collector (b. 1927)
- 2022 – Kamel Lemoui, Algerian national football player and manager (b. 1939)
- 2022 – Beatrice Mintz, American embryologist (b. 1921)
- 2022 – Viktor Saneyev, Soviet-Georgian triple jumper (b. 1945)
Holidays and special occasions
- The liberation of Mersin from the French occupation (1922)
- The day when the Earth is closest to the Sun (perihelion)
- Tuberculosis Training Week (3-9 January)
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