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Events
1521 – Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, in which he excommunicates Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church.
1653 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Princeton: American General George Washington defeats British General Charles Cornwallis' army, which had been dispatched to Trenton to bag the fox (Washington), and wins several encounters with the British rear guard as it departs Princeton for Trenton, New Jersey.
1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
1853 – Solomon Northup, a free man of color who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, regained his freedom. He wrote about his ordeal in the bestselling memoir 'Twelve Years a Slave'.
1861 – American Civil War: Two weeks after South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union, the state of Delaware rejects a similar proposal. More than two weeks before Georgia secedes from the Union, the state militia seizes Fort Pulaski at the order of Gov. Joseph E. Brown.
1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power. In an event that heralded the birth of modern Japan, patriotic samurai from Japan's outlying domains joined with anti-shogunate nobles in restoring the emperor to power after 700 years. The impetus for the coup was a fear by many Japanese that the nation's feudal leaders were ill equipped to resist the threat of foreign domination. Soon after seizing power, the young Emperor Meiji and his ministers moved the royal court from Kyoto to Tokyo, dismantled feudalism, and enacted widespread reforms along Western models. The newly unified Japanese government also set off on a path of rapid industrialization and militarization, building Japan into a major world power by the early 20th century.
1870 – Groundbreaking takes place for construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge is completed on May 24, 1883.
1885 – Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop.
1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
1911 – The first postal savings banks were opened by the U.S. Post Office. (The banks were abolished in 1966.)
1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs 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.
1919 – Herbert Hoover is placed in charge of war relief in Europe.
1924 – Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb--a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin that held the mummy of Tutankhamen.
1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 – The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease.
1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
1946 – Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
1949: In a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court said that states had the right to ban closed shops.
1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
1958: The first six members of the newly formed U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held their first meeting at the White House.
1959: President Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.
1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
1961 – In the climax of deteriorating relations between the United States and Fidel Castro's government in Cuba, President Dwight D. Eisenhower closes the American embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
1961 – A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
1961 – In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1967: Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, dies of cancer in a Dallas hospital. The Texas Court of Appeals had recently overturned his death sentence for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and was scheduled to grant him a new trial.
1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated in Cupertino, Calif., by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.
1980: Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of “Born Free,” is killed in northern Kenya by a former employee.
1990: Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega, after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face charges of drug trafficking.
1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994 – More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
1999: After three days of high winds and heavy snow, people in the Great Lakes region began digging out from one of the worst blizzards on record. More than 100 people died in storm-related accidents.
2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
2004 – Flash Airlines Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by the Egyptian charter tour operator, crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people aboard, most of them French tourists. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
2004: NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, touched down on Mars.
2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2009: After seven days of pummeling the Gaza Strip from the air, Israel launched a ground offensive; Hamas vowed that Gaza would be a “graveyard” for the Israelis.
2013: Students attending Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., reconvened at a different building in the town of Monroe about three weeks after the massacre that had claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators.
2015 – Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, with as many as 2,000 people having been killed.
Octave of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist. Double.
Commemoration of the Octaves of St. Thomas of Canturbury, and of the Holy Innocents
January 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Forefeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 – The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease.
1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
1946 – Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
1949: In a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court said that states had the right to ban closed shops.
1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
1958: The first six members of the newly formed U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held their first meeting at the White House.
1959: President Eisenhower signs a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.
1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
1961 – In the climax of deteriorating relations between the United States and Fidel Castro's government in Cuba, President Dwight D. Eisenhower closes the American embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
1961 – A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
1961 – In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1967: Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, dies of cancer in a Dallas hospital. The Texas Court of Appeals had recently overturned his death sentence for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and was scheduled to grant him a new trial.
1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated in Cupertino, Calif., by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.
1980: Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of “Born Free,” is killed in northern Kenya by a former employee.
1990: Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega, after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City, surrenders to U.S. military troops to face charges of drug trafficking.
1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994 – More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
1999: After three days of high winds and heavy snow, people in the Great Lakes region began digging out from one of the worst blizzards on record. More than 100 people died in storm-related accidents.
2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
2004 – Flash Airlines Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by the Egyptian charter tour operator, crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people aboard, most of them French tourists. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
2004: NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, touched down on Mars.
2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2009: After seven days of pummeling the Gaza Strip from the air, Israel launched a ground offensive; Hamas vowed that Gaza would be a “graveyard” for the Israelis.
2013: Students attending Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., reconvened at a different building in the town of Monroe about three weeks after the massacre that had claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators.
2015 – Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, with as many as 2,000 people having been killed.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Octave of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist. Double.
Commemoration of the Octaves of St. Thomas of Canturbury, and of the Holy Innocents
Contemporary Western
Genevieve
Kuriakose Elias Chavara (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
Kuriakose Elias Chavara (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
William Passavant (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Holy Prophet Malachi (c. 400 BC)
Martyr Peter, in Avlona of Samaria, Palestine (311)
Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia, centurion, by the sword (c. 314)
Venerable Meliton of Beirut (537)
Venerable Peter of Atroa (Peter the Standard-Bearer) (837)
Venerable Acacius the Wonderworker, of Mount Latros (Latmos), at the
Megisti Lavra of the Theotokos of Myrsinon (c. 10th century)
Saint Thomais of Lesbos (10th century)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Daniel of Padua, a Deacon who helped St Prosdocimus, the first
Bishop of Padua in Italy (168)
Saint Anterus, Pope of Rome (236)
Hieromartyr Florentius of Vienne, a martyred Bishop of Vienne in France (3rd century)
Venerable Genevieve of Paris (502)
Saint Fintan of Doon, a disciple of St Comgall at Bangor in Ireland; he is honoured as
the patron-saint of Doon in Limerick where his holy well still exists (6th century)
Saint Finlugh of Derry (Finlag), a brother of St Fintan of Doon, he went to Scotland
where he became one of St Columba's disciples; returning to Ireland, he became
abbot of a monastery in County Londonderry (6th century)
Saint Blitmund, a monk at Bobbio Abbey in Italy (c. 660)
Saint Bertilia of Mareuil, anchoress (c. 687)
Saint Findlugan of Islay (Finlaggan, Fionn Lugain) (7th century)
Saint Wenog, an early saint in Wales
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Righteous Euthymius (Takaishvili) the Man of God, of Tbilisi (1953)
Other commemorations
Repose of Schema-Hierodeacon Elder Panteleimon, founder of Kostychev Convent (1884)
Holy Prophet Malachi (c. 400 BC)
Martyr Peter, in Avlona of Samaria, Palestine (311)
Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia, centurion, by the sword (c. 314)
Venerable Meliton of Beirut (537)
Venerable Peter of Atroa (Peter the Standard-Bearer) (837)
Venerable Acacius the Wonderworker, of Mount Latros (Latmos), at the
Megisti Lavra of the Theotokos of Myrsinon (c. 10th century)
Saint Thomais of Lesbos (10th century)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Daniel of Padua, a Deacon who helped St Prosdocimus, the first
Bishop of Padua in Italy (168)
Saint Anterus, Pope of Rome (236)
Hieromartyr Florentius of Vienne, a martyred Bishop of Vienne in France (3rd century)
Venerable Genevieve of Paris (502)
Saint Fintan of Doon, a disciple of St Comgall at Bangor in Ireland; he is honoured as
the patron-saint of Doon in Limerick where his holy well still exists (6th century)
Saint Finlugh of Derry (Finlag), a brother of St Fintan of Doon, he went to Scotland
where he became one of St Columba's disciples; returning to Ireland, he became
abbot of a monastery in County Londonderry (6th century)
Saint Blitmund, a monk at Bobbio Abbey in Italy (c. 660)
Saint Bertilia of Mareuil, anchoress (c. 687)
Saint Findlugan of Islay (Finlaggan, Fionn Lugain) (7th century)
Saint Wenog, an early saint in Wales
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Righteous Euthymius (Takaishvili) the Man of God, of Tbilisi (1953)
Other commemorations
Repose of Schema-Hierodeacon Elder Panteleimon, founder of Kostychev Convent (1884)
Malankara Orthodox
Commemoration of HH Basilius Mar Geevarghese II (Devalokam Perunnal)
Commemoration of HH Basilius Mar Geevarghese II (Devalokam Perunnal)
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