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 See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.
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 | On January 3, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about women's rights. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) | ||
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| 1521 | Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 1777 | Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J. |
| 1833 | Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. |
| 1868 | The Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns. |
| 1892 | J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. |
| 1938 | The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized. |
| 1947 | Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and New York City saw some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress. |
| 1961 | The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. |
| 1967 | Jack Ruby, the man who shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital. |
| 1980 | Conservationist Joy Adamson, author of ''Born Free,'' was killed in Kenya by a servant. |
| 1990 | Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City. |
| 1995 | The Postal Service raised the price of a first-class stamp to 32 cents. |
| 1997 | Bryant Gumbel signed off for the last time as host of NBC's ''Today'' show. |
| 2000 | The last new daily ''Peanuts'' comic strip by Charles Schulz ran in 2,600 newspapers. |
| 2004 | NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, touched down on Mars. |
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| Mel Gibson turns 49 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Rene Macura Actor Mel Gibson turns 49 years old today.
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Historic Birthdays |
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| Lucretia Mott | |
1/3/1793 - 11/11/1880 Early proponent of the American women's rights movement (Go to obit.) |
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| 86 |
Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg 1/3/1737 - 11/1/1823 German theorist of Sturm & Drang literary movement |
| 82 |
Robert Whitehead 1/3/1823 - 11/14/1905 British engineer, invented the modern torpedo |
| 49 |
Father Damien 1/3/1840 - 4/15/1889 Belgian missionary to Hawaiian lepers |
| 71 |
Sir Henry Alfred Lytton 1/3/1865 - 8/15/1936 English Gilbert and Sullivan star |
| 84 |
Clement Attlee 1/3/1883 - 10/8/1967 English prime minister (1945-51) |
| 81 |
J. R. R. Tolkien 1/3/1892 - 9/2/1973 English novelist and scholar |
| 84 |
T. Claude Ryan 1/3/1898 - 9/11/1982 American aircraft manufacturer; designed the Spirit of St Louis |
| 62 |
Dinh Diem Ngo 1/3/1901 - 11/2/1963 South Vietnamese president (1955-63) |
| 86 |
Boris Kochno 1/3/1904 - 1/8/1990 Russian-born French ballet librettist |
| 22 |
Morten Nielsen 1/3/1922 - 8/29/1944 Danish poet & resistance fighter |
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