What happened today in history?
Uncle Woody's Almanac
for
January 3

2007	Former US president Gerald Ford is laid to rest, following a private funeral in Grand  Rapids, Michigan.  (photo credit: NARA)
2002	The world's oldest man Antonio Todde, dies on the Italian island of Sardinia at age 112.
2000	2600 newspapers around the globe run the last new edition of the cartoon Peanuts> by Charles Schulz.
1995	The US Postal Service raises the price for a 1st-class stamp to 32 cents.
1993	US president George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign a treaty to reduce the inventory of nuclear missiles in both countries.
1980	Joy Adamson, author of Born Free, is killed by a servant in northern Kenya.
1967	Jack Ruby, the man who shot suspected JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies in a Dallas hospital.
1961	The US severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1959	Alaska becomes the 49th state of the US.
1947	Congressional proceedings are televised for the first time as viewers in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, witness opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.
1938	The March of Dimes campaign to stomp out polio is organized.
1924	British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovers the stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin, within which is found the mummified remains of Tutankhamen, boy-king of Egypt.
1868	The authority of the Japanese emperor is reestablished, causing a decline in the military rule of the shoguns.
1777	US General George Washington's troops emerge victorious against the British in the  Battle of Princeton.  (photo credit: NARA)
1521	Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for his religious beliefs.

Born today: 1975  Danica McKellar - actress 1975  Jason Marsden - actor 1969  James Carter - jazz musician 1968  Shannon Sturges - actress 1956  Mel Gibson - actor, director 1950  Victoria Principal - actress 1946  John Paul Jones - bassist (Led Zeppelin) 1945  Stephen Stills - singer, songwriter, guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Buffalo Springfield) 1943  Van Dyke Parks - singer, songwriter, producer 1939  Bobby Hull - NHL hall of famer 1936  Betty Rollin - author 1932  Dabney Coleman - actor 1932  'Coo Coo' Marlin - NASCAR racer, father of NASCAR racer Sterling Marlin 1930  Robert Loggia - actor (Independence Day) 1926  George Martin - record producer (The Beatles) 1923  Hank Stram - NFL coach, sportscaster 1918  Maxene Andrews - singer (The Andrews Sisters) 1909  Victor Borge - pianist, comedian 1905  Ray Milland - actor 1898  Zasu Pitts - actress 1892  J.R.R. Tolkien - author (The Lord of The Rings) 1887  August Macke - German Expressionist painter 1823  Robert Whitehead - torpedo inventor 107BC  Cicero - Roman statesman

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