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Historical Events

03 Jan 1407
Bloody battles between Hoeksen & Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
03 Jan 1638
Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of Hostage rights of Aemstel
03 Jan 1638
Schouwburg Theater the 1st in Amsterdam opens
03 Jan 1653
The Coonan Cross Oath is taken in the Saint Thomas Christian community in an effort to avoid submission to Portuguese rule in India
03 Jan 1746
Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow [NS114]
03 Jan 1749
Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants leading to the establishment of Vermont.
03 Jan 1752
East Indies invasion Geldermalsen leaves at Malacca 92 killed
03 Jan 1780
Danish national anthem Kong Kristian... 1st sung
03 Jan 1815
France the United Kingdom and Austria form an alliance against Russia and Prussia
03 Jan 1825
Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
03 Jan 1831
1st US building & loan association organized Frankford Penn
03 Jan 1833
Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
03 Jan 1834
The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
03 Jan 1840
1st deep sea sounding by James Clark Ross in south Atlantic at 2425 fathoms (14450 feet)
03 Jan 1848
Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of the independent African Republic of Liberia.
03 Jan 1853
Solomon Northup is freed after 7 illegal years in slavery with aid of Washington Hunt Governor of New York
03 Jan 1861
Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
03 Jan 1861
US Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson Savannah seized by Georgia
03 Jan 1865
Con Orem & Hugh ONeill box 193 rounds before darkness ends match
03 Jan 1868
Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japans emperors
03 Jan 1870
Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York completed May 24 1883
03 Jan 1871
Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley Binghamton NY
03 Jan 1885
The beginning of the Battle of Nui Bop in the Sino-French War
03 Jan 1888
1st wax drinking straw patented by Marvin C Stone in Washington D.C.
03 Jan 1889
Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg WA asks for statehood
03 Jan 1890
1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
03 Jan 1896
Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid
03 Jan 1899
1st known use of the word automobile appears in an editorial in The New York Times
03 Jan 1911
The Government of India announces that emigration to Natal Southern Africa is prohibited with effect from 1 July
03 Jan 1911
The Russian Turkestan city of Almaty is destroyed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
03 Jan 1912
Southern Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco free
03 Jan 1912
10th Davis Cup Australasia beats USA in Christchurch (5-0)
03 Jan 1914
KelmanCushingHeath musical Sari premieres in NYC
03 Jan 1918
US Employment Service opens as a unit of the Department of Labor
03 Jan 1919
The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement which was a short-lived agreement for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine is signed by the King of Iraq and the President of the World Zionist Organization
03 Jan 1920
Arthur Honeggers Chant de Nigamon premieres
03 Jan 1922
1st living person identified on a US coin (Thomas E Kirby) on the Alabama Centennial half-dollar
03 Jan 1926
Greek gen Theodorus Pangulos names himself dictator
03 Jan 1929
27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president
03 Jan 1931
Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
03 Jan 1932
Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
03 Jan 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.
03 Jan 1939
Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
03 Jan 1940
WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as new WOV
03 Jan 1941
Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
03 Jan 1941
Sergei Rachmaninovs Symphonic Dances premieres in Philadelphia
03 Jan 1942
American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
03 Jan 1944
World War II Top Ace Major Greg Pappy Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
03 Jan 1945
Allies land on west coast of Burma conquer Akyab
03 Jan 1945
Cato-Meridian School New York installs germicidal lamps in every room
03 Jan 1945
John Patricks Hasty Heart premieres in NYC
03 Jan 1947
1st opening session of Congress to be televised
03 Jan 1947
William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee
03 Jan 1948
Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127) v India MCG
03 Jan 1949
Colgate Theater dramatic anthology series premieres on NBC TV
03 Jan 1949
The central bank of the Philippines the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is founded
03 Jan 1951
9 Jewish Kremlin physicians exposed as BritishUS agents
03 Jan 1951
Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
03 Jan 1952
Australia beat W Indies by one wicket at the MCG last stand 38
03 Jan 1953
Frances Bolton and her son Oliver from Ohio become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
03 Jan 1955
Jose Ramon Guizado becomes president of Panama
03 Jan 1956
A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
03 Jan 1958
Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick v South Africa at Cape Town
03 Jan 1961
Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of US House Education & Labor Committee
03 Jan 1963
WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
03 Jan 1964
Jack Paar Show shows a clip of the Beatles singing She Loves You
03 Jan 1966
Floyd B McKissick named national director of CORE
03 Jan 1967
Tonight Show is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
03 Jan 1967
Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
03 Jan 1967
WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton OH (IND) begins broadcasting
03 Jan 1970
Jimmy closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 84 performances
03 Jan 1970
Mame closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
03 Jan 1970
WHAG TV channel 25 in Hagerstown MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
03 Jan 1971
Presidents Daughter closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 performances
03 Jan 1971
NFC Championship Game Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 17-10
03 Jan 1972
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street Belfast injuring over 60 people
03 Jan 1974
Arias Navarro succeeds Carrero Blanco as premier of Spain
03 Jan 1974
Miguel Pineros Short Eyes premieres in NYC
03 Jan 1976
Australian Open Womens Tennis Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley beats Renata Tomanova of Czechoslovakia 6-2 6-2 for her 3rd straight home singles title
03 Jan 1977
Lindy McDaniel retires with 2nd most pitching appearances (987 games)
03 Jan 1977
Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces his intention to be Britains first President of the European Commission
03 Jan 1977
The Police Tapes premiere on New York City TV station WNET based somewhat on 1960s NYPD officers who worked in its South Bronx
03 Jan 1978
Chandrasekar takes 6-52 & 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win
03 Jan 1979
Australian Open Mens Tennis Guillermo Vilas of Argentina wins 3rd Grand Slam title beats Australian John Marks 6-4 6-4 3-6 6-3
03 Jan 1980
Babrak Karmal defends the Soviet-backed coup in first public appearance since taking power as President of Afghanistan
03 Jan 1980
Australian Open Womens Tennis Czech teenager Hana Mandlkov wins her 1st of 4 career Grand Slam singles titles beats home favourite Wendy Turnbull 6-0 7-5
03 Jan 1981
Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey 34 Austin Carr
03 Jan 1981
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 100m butterfly (58.91)
03 Jan 1982
Australian Open Mens Tennis South African Johan Kriek wins first career Grand Slam title beats American Steve Denton 6-2 7-6 6-7 6-4
03 Jan 1983
Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush Dallas vs Minnesota
03 Jan 1984
Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
03 Jan 1985
Israel government confirms resettlement of 10000 Ethiopian Jews
03 Jan 1987
Oh Coward closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
03 Jan 1987
Smile closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
03 Jan 1988
Israel orders 9 Palestinian instigators deported from W Beirut
03 Jan 1989
Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
03 Jan 1991
Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years
03 Jan 1991
LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders
03 Jan 1991
8 Iraqi embassy officials are expelled from the UK
03 Jan 1992
Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century 129 v India at Sydney
03 Jan 1993
Catskills on Broadway closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 performances
03 Jan 1993
Christmas Carol closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 performances
03 Jan 1993
Lost in Yonkers closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 performances
03 Jan 1993
Secret Garden closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances
03 Jan 1993
Tommy Tune Tonite closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
03 Jan 1993
Michael Milkin the junk bond king is released from jail after 22 months
03 Jan 1993
The Comeback QB Frank Reich led the Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game the greatest comeback ever in pro football history
03 Jan 1994
Grays Anatomy closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 13 performances
03 Jan 1994
Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk Siberia 122 killed
03 Jan 1994
35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962 is taken down to be moved to Jacobs Field
03 Jan 1996
1st clamshell flip mobile phone the Motorola StarTAC goes on sale. Eventually 60 million are sold.
03 Jan 1997
Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final Today show on NBC-TV
03 Jan 1997
Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick v England at Harare
03 Jan 1997
The Peoples Republic of China announces it will spend US27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys
03 Jan 1998
Side Show closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 91 performances
03 Jan 1999
Israel detains and later expels 14 members of Concerned Christians.
03 Jan 2002
The Palestinian freighter Karine A is seized by Israeli forces in the Red Sea
03 Jan 2004
Flight 604 a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines an Egyptian airliner plunges into the Red Sea killing all 148 people on board.
03 Jan 2007
National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
03 Jan 2013
27 Shiite pilgrims are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing in Musayyib Iraq
03 Jan 2014
Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
03 Jan 2014
Tommy Lynn Sells is executed at Texas State Penitentiary Huntsville for the murder of nine-year-old Mary Perez thought to have committed 21 more murders
03 Jan 2015
18 people are killed after the Norwegian cargo ship MS Bulk Jupiter sinks off the coast of Vietnam
03 Jan 2015
Over 2000 people are killed in north-east Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raze the town of Baga
03 Jan 2018
Security expert reveal two security flaws Meltdown and Spectre which affect most microprocessors
03 Jan 2018
Previously unknown ancient Beringians group of people unearthed in Alaska earliest known Native Americans at 11500 years old
03 Jan 2018
First bionic hand with a sense of touch for use outside a lab unveiled in Rome
03 Jan 1902
Due to a bad pitch Australian batsman Reggie Duff is held back to No. 10 on Test debut v England at MCG scores 104
03 Jan 1912
10th International Lawn Tennis Challenge Christchurch NZ Norman Brookes & Alfred Dunlop representing Australasia beat Americans Maurice McLoughlin & Beals Wright 6-4 5-7 7-5 6-4 to clinch final 3-0 ends 5-0
03 Jan 1931
Montreal Maroons centre Nels Stewart scores fastest 2 goals in NHL history with a pair 4 seconds apart in a 5-3 win over Boston Bruins at Montreal Arena
03 Jan 1948
Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman completes dual Test centuries (132 & 127 [26th Test 100]) in 3rd Test v India in Melbourne
03 Jan 1958
Australian cricket fast bowler Lindsay Kline takes a hat-trick (Eddie Fuller Hugh Tayfield Neil Adcock) as South Africa dismissed for 99 in follow-on 2nd Test at Cape Town
03 Jan 1961
An explosion at the Nuclear Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls kills three operators
03 Jan 1971
1st NFC Championship Kezar Stadium SF Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 17-10
03 Jan 1978
Indian cricket spin bowler B. S. Chandrasekhar becomes first in Test history to register identical figures in both innings (6 for 52) in Indian innings win over Australia in 3rd Test in Melbourne
03 Jan 1981
NBAs Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey 34 Austin Carr
03 Jan 1981
Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell scores a masterly 204 v India in the 1st Test in Sydney home side wins by an innings and 4 runs
03 Jan 1983
Dallas running back Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yard rush in the Cowboys 31-27 defeat at Minnesota Vikings
03 Jan 1985
Future Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin scores 110 on debut in drawn 3rd Test against England in Kolkata
03 Jan 1992
David Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century 129 v India at Sydney
03 Jan 1992
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Jakob Hlasek beats Karel Novek of Czechoslovakia 6-4 6-4 for a 2-0 lead (ends 2-1) and Switzerlands first title
03 Jan 1998
Los Angeles Clippers head coach Bill Fitch coaches his 2000th NBA game a 97-88 win against the Dallas Mavericks at the LA Memorial Sports Arena
03 Jan 2009
The Bitcoin network is created as the first block of the digital currency is mined by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto
03 Jan 2010
Phil Taylor successfully defends his PDC World Darts title with a 73 victory over Simon Whitlock of Australia in the final in London Taylors 13th PDC and 15th overall world championship
03 Jan 2011
Adrian Lewis of England wins his first PDC World Darts Championship with a 7-5 win over Scotsman Gary Anderson at the Alexandra Palace London
03 Jan 2016
Jimmy Butler breaks Michael Jordans Chicago Bulls record for points in a half scoring 40 of his 42 points in the second half to lead the Bulls in a 115-113 victory over the Toronto Raptors
03 Jan 2016
Scotsman Gary Anderson retains his PDC World Darts Championship beating Adrian Lewis of England 7-5 at the Alexandra Palace London
03 Jan 2018
Landslide and flooding caused by heavy rains in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of Congo kills at least 37
03 Jan 1941
American National Collegiate Football Rules Committee announces a new rule permitting free substitution of players
03 Jan 1943
Max and Doug Bentley assist on brother Regs only NHL goal in Chicago Blackhawks 3-3 tie with the Rangers in NYC only time in NHL history trio of family members score and assist on a scoring play
03 Jan 1949
West Indian cricket batsman Everton Weekes scores 101 in 3rd Test against India in Calcutta his world record fifth consecutive Test century
03 Jan 1967
The Tonight Show is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
03 Jan 1992
Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores an unbeaten 129 in drawn 3rd Test against India in Sydney his 11th Test century
03 Jan 1992
English club Wigan pays Widnes a world record rugby league transfer fee of 440000 for Great Britain international winger Martin Offiah
03 Jan 1993
Musical Secret Garden closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances
03 Jan 1993
The Comeback QB Frank Reich leads Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game the greatest comeback ever in NFL history
03 Jan 1994
Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers becomes first quarterback to win 3 straight NFL passing titles despite a 37-34 OT loss to the Philadelphia Eagles first to lodge 3 consecutive passer ratings of 100
03 Jan 1997
Zimbabwe cricket fast bowler Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick as home team scores another upset against England winning by 131 runs and sweeping series 3-0 in Harare
03 Jan 1997
Texas-El Paso head basketball coach Don Haskins becomes 10th coach in NCAA Division I history to record 700 career wins when the Miners edge SMU 66-64
03 Jan 1998
Los Angeles Clippers Bill Fitch coaches his 2000th NBA game a 97-88 win against the Dallas Mavericks at the LA Memorial Sports Arena
03 Jan 1999
NASAs Mars Polar Lander launched mission later fails after communication lost trying to land on Mars (Dec 3 )
03 Jan 2004
Panthers kicker John Kasay ties NFL-playoff record with 5 field goals to lead Carolina to a 29-10 win over Dallas Cowboys in the Wild Card round of playoffs in Charlotte North Carolina
03 Jan 2007
High profile Miami Dolphins NFL head coach Nick Saban resigns after agreeing to return to college football and take head coaching job at Alabama
03 Jan 1853
Solomon Northup author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave is freed after 7 illegal years in slavery with aid of Washington Hunt Governor of New York
03 Jan 1998
American Hee Haw banjo player Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke
03 Jan 1914
Kelman Cushing and Heaths musical Sari premieres in NYC
03 Jan 1941
Sergei Rachmaninoffs final composition Symphonic Dances premieres in Philadelphia with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
03 Jan 1947
1st opening session of Congress to be televised - it did not happen again until 1977
03 Jan 1949
US Representative William Dawson becomes 1st Black to head congressional committee - Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments (now known as Committee on Oversight and Reform)
03 Jan 1958
The West Indies Federation is formed made up of former British Caribbean territories with the capital Port of Spain
03 Jan 1962
Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome a multi-purpose domed stadium in Houston Texas
03 Jan 1970
Jerry Hermans musical Mame closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances and 3 Tony Awards
03 Jan 1993
Lucy Simon & Marsha Normans musical The Secret Garden based on Frances Hodgson Burnetts novel starring Daisy Eagan and Mandy Patinkin closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances and 3 Tony Awards
03 Jan 1861
US state of Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
03 Jan 1945
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits France
03 Jan 1945
John Patricks play The Hasty Heart premieres in NYC
03 Jan 1957
1st electric watch the Hamilton Electric 500 introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company in Lancaster Pennsylvania
03 Jan 1971
Murray Rumshinsky and Jacob Jacobs musical The Presidents Daughter closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 72 performances
03 Jan 1993
Tommy Tune Tonite Song & Dance Act closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances
03 Jan 1780
Danish national anthem Kong Kristian stod ved hjen mast 1st sung
03 Jan 1843
Gaetano Donizettis opera Don Pasquale premieres at the Thtre-Italien in Paris France
03 Jan 1921
Svoboda Ukrainian language newspaper based in Jersey City New Jersey expands to daily publication (reverts to weekly in 1998)
03 Jan 1929
27-year-old businessman William S. Paley becomes CBS president
03 Jan 1953
Frances Bolton and her son Oliver become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress both representing Ohio
03 Jan 1958
Edmund Hillary leads a Commonwealth team to the South Pole using modified Fergusson trackers - first to reach the Pole by land since 1912
03 Jan 1969
Adam Clayton Powell Jr returns to seat in US House of Representatives having been re-elected after previously being expelled from Congress
03 Jan 1988
Israel orders 9 Palestinian instigators deported from West Beirut
03 Jan 1997
Bryant Gumbel co-hosts his final Today show on NBC-TV
03 Jan 2016
Jimmy Butler breaks Michael Jordans Chicago Bulls record for points in an NBA half scoring 40 of his 42 points in the second half to lead the Bulls in a 115-113 victory over the Toronto Raptors
03 Jan 2019
Archaeologists in Mexico announce discovery of pre-Aztec temple to god Xipe Ttec in Puebla state (dated 900-1150 AD)
03 Jan 2019
Chinese Change-4 spacecraft becomes the first ever to touch down on the far side of the Moon
03 Jan 2020
US drone strike kills top Iranian security and intelligence commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani outside Baghdad airport in Iraq
03 Jan 2021
Welshman Gerwyn Price wins his first PDC World Darts Championship beats Gary Anderson of Scotland 7-3 at the Alexandra Palace in London
03 Jan 2022
America records one million new COVID-19 cases for the first time Omicron accounting for an estimated 95% of these [1]
03 Jan 2022
Apple becomes the first US company to be worth 3 trillion in value after tripling its price in under four years [1]
03 Jan 1407
Bloody battles between Hoeken and Kabeljauwen in Dordrecht
03 Jan 1831
First US building and loan association organized in Frankford Pennsylvania
03 Jan 1840
First deep-sea sounding by James Clark Ross in the South Atlantic at 2425 fathoms (14450 feet)
03 Jan 1872
First patent list issued by the US Patent Office
03 Jan 1885
Battle of Ni Bop begins in northern Vietnam during the Sino-French War
03 Jan 1888
First wax drinking straw is patented by Marvin C. Stone in Washington D.C.
03 Jan 1890
First US college-level dairy school opens at the University of Wisconsin
03 Jan 1899
First known use of the word automobile appears in an editorial in The New York Times
03 Jan 1900
Gerhart Hauptmanns play Schluck und Jau premieres in Berlin
03 Jan 1911
City of Almaty in Russian Turkestan is destroyed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
03 Jan 1920
Arthur Honeggers symphonic poem Chant de Nigamon (The Song of Nigamon) premieres at the Cirque dHiver in Paris France
03 Jan 1922
First living person is depicted on a U.S. coin when Governor Thomas Kilby appears on the Alabama Centennial half dollar
03 Jan 1932
Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company
03 Jan 1933
Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States
03 Jan 1941
Canada and the US acquire air bases in Newfoundland on a 99-year lease
03 Jan 1947
First opening session of Congress is televised it does not happen again until 1977
03 Jan 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Onos album Two Virgins is declared obscene in New Jersey
03 Jan 1974
Price of gold hits record 121.25 an ounce in London
03 Jan 1985
Israels government confirms the resettlement of 10000 Ethiopian Jews
03 Jan 1988
Roy Orbison and Friends A Black and White Night premieres on Cinemax concert performance includes James Burton Bonnie Raitt Bruce Springsteen Elvis Costello Tom Waits and k.d. lang
03 Jan 1996
First successful clamshell flip mobile phone the Motorola StarTAC goes on sale eventually 60 million units are sold
03 Jan 2012
Michael van Gerwen named Young Player of the Year at the PDC annual awards ceremony
03 Jan 2018
Previously unknown ancient Beringian group is unearthed in Alaska among the earliest known Native American groups dating to about 11500 years ago
03 Jan 2019
Surviving R. Kelly docuseries investigating sexual abuse by R&B singer R. Kelly premieres on Lifetime in the US
03 Jan 2022
Rock singer David Lee Roth cancels his pre-retirement residency in Las Vegas due to unforeseen circumstances related to COVID
03 Jan 2022
Scotsman Peter Wright wins his second PDC World Darts Championship beats Michael Smith of England 7-5 at the Alexandra Palace in London
03 Jan 2023
Englands Michael Smith hits a nine-dart finish on the way to his first PDC world darts title beating Dutchman Michael van Gerwen 7-4 at the Alexandra Palace London
03 Jan 2024
In an all-English final Luke Humphries claims his first PDC World Darts Championship with a 7-4 win over 16-year-old prodigy Luke Littler at the Alexandra Palace London
03 Jan 2024
Jeffery Epstein court documents listing his associates made public from 2015 defamation trial of Ghislaine Maxwell [1]
03 Jan 2024
Lowest January temperature of -43.6 C (minus 46.5 F) recorded in Sweden for 25 years in Kvikkjokk-rrenjarka Swedish Lapland amid a very cold spell across Scandinavia [1]
03 Jan 2024
Two explosions kill at least 95 people during a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in Kerman Iran