This Day in History
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
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Meiji Restoration in Japan
In an event that heralds the birth of modern Japan patriotic samurai from Japans outlying domains join with anti-shogunate nobles in restoring the empe...
Martin Luther excommunicated
On January 3 1521 Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church.Martin Luther the ch...
Jack Ruby dies before second trial
On January 3 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...
Alaska admitted into Union
On January 3 1959 President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state.The Europea...
Noriega surrenders to U.S.
On this day in 1990 Panamas General Manuel Antonio Noriega after holing up for 10 days at the Vatican embassy in Panama City surrenders to U.S. milit...
McCarthy announces his presidential candidacy
Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota) announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.McCarthy had been a contender to be President Lyndon B....
Antigovernment demonstrators clash with police
The political crisis that had been undermining the South Vietnamese government and military for months is aggravated when thousands of antigovernment demonstrat...
Buffalo Bills pull off greatest comeback in NFL history
On this day in 1993 backup quarterback Frank Reich leads the Buffalo Bills to a 41-38 overtime victory over the Houston Oilers in an American Football Conferen...
Franklin Roosevelt founds March of Dimes
Franklin Delano Roosevelt an adult victim of polio founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which he later renamed the March of Dimes Foundatio...
Stephen Austin imprisoned by Mexicans
Escalating the tensions that would lead to rebellion and war the Mexican government imprisons the Texas colonizer Stephen Austin in Mexico City.Stephen Fuller ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts first woman
In 1986 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its first group of inductees Buddy Holly Chuck Berry Elvis Presley Fats Domino James Brown Jerry Lee Lew...
Herman Melville sails for the South Seas
On this day in 1841 Herman Melville ships out on the whaler Acushnet to the South Seas.Melville was born in New York City in 1819. A childhood bout of scarlet ...
Dragnet TV show debuts
Just the facts maam. On this day in 1952 Sergeant Joe Fridays famous catchphrase enters American homes via a new entertainment d...
Great Lakes region digs out from record blizzard
After three days of high winds and heavy snow people in the Great Lakes region begin digging out from one of the worst blizzards on record on this day in 1999....
The husband did it: The controversial Stuart case
Matthew Stuart meets with Boston prosecutors and tells them that his brother Charles was actually the person responsible for murdering Charless wife ...
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