January 3 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for January 3
In the headlines today:

2007	Former US president Gerald Ford is laid to rest, following a private funeral in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (photo credit: NARA)
2002	Antonio Todde, the world's oldest man, 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.