Today in History TUE JAN 03
Today is Tuesday, January 3rd, the third day of the year 2023. There are 362 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On January 3, 1990, ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to US forces 10 days after seeking refuge in the Vatican diplomatic mission.
On this date:
In 1777, General George Washington’s army defeated the British at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.
In 1861, more than two weeks before Georgia seceded from the Union, the state militia seized Fort Pulaski on the orders of Governor Joseph E. Brown. The Delaware House and Senate voted against secession from the Union.
In 1868, the Meiji Restoration restored the authority of the Japanese emperor and heralded the overthrow of the military rulers known as shoguns.
In 1959, Alaska became the 49th state when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation.
In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced that the United States would officially end diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
In 1967, Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, died in a Dallas hospital.
In 1977 Apple Computer was founded in Cupertino, California by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula (MAHR’-kuh-luh) Jr.
In 2002, an Alabama judge ruled that former Ku Klux Klan man Bobby Frank Cherry was mentally competent to be convicted of murder in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls. to stand in court. (Cherry was later convicted and served a life sentence until his death in November 2004.)
In 2007, Gerald R. Ford was buried on the grounds of his Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan during a ceremony watched by thousands of onlookers.
In 2008, Illinois Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic faction in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee won the Republican faction.
In 2013, students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, reunited at another building in the city of Monroe about three weeks after the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators. The new 113th Congress opened with House Speaker John Boehner (BAY’-only) re-elected despite a mini-revolt in the Republican ranks.
In 2020, the United States killed Iran’s top general in an airstrike on Baghdad International Airport; The Pentagon said General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was “actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and military personnel” in Iraq and elsewhere. Iran warned of retaliation.
Ten years ago: Students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, reunited at another building in the city of Monroe about three weeks after the massacre that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators. The new 113th Congress opened with House Speaker John Boehner re-elected despite a minor revolt in the Republican ranks. No. 5 Oregon beat No. 7 Kansas State, 35-17, in the Fiesta Bowl.
Five years ago: President Donald Trump signed an executive order dissolving the controversial Voter Fraud Commission he set up to investigate the 2016 presidential election after claiming without evidence that voter fraud cost him the popular vote; The White House blamed the decision to end the panel on more than a dozen states that refused to cooperate. A brutal winter storm brought a rare blast of snow and ice to the Southeast Coast, sending parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina their heaviest snowfalls in nearly three decades.
A year ago: A jury in San Jose, Calif., found Elizabeth Holmes deceiving investors by believing that her start-up Theranos had developed a revolutionary medical device that could detect diseases and conditions from a few drops of blood. The East Coast’s main north-south freeway, Interstate 95, became impassable in Virginia after a truck jack-knifed, setting off a chain reaction when other vehicles lost control during a winter storm; Hundreds of drivers were stranded in freezing temperatures, some for more than 24 hours. By expanding COVID-19 boosters amid an Omicron surge, the Food and Drug Administration allowed additional Pfizer shots for children ages 12 and older.
Birthdays today: Actor Dabney Coleman is 91. Journalist and author Betty Rollin is 87. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull is 84. Singer-songwriter-producer Van Dyke Parks is 80. Musician Stephen Stills is 78. Rock musician John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin ) is 77. Actress Victoria Principal is 73. Actor-director Mel Gibson is 67. Actress Shannon Sturges is 55. Actor John Ales is 54. Jazz musician James Carter is 54. Contemporary Christian singer Nichole Nordeman is 51. Musician Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) is 48. Actor Jason Marsden is 48. Actor Danica McKellar is 48. Actor Nicholas Gonzalez is 47. Singer Kimberley Locke (TV: “American Idol”) is 45. Actress Kate Levering is 44. Ex -NFL quarterback Eli Manning is 42. Actress Nicole Beharie is 38. Pop musician Mark Pontius is 38. R&B singer Lloyd is 37. Pop-rock musician Nash Overstreet (Hot Chelle (sh el) Rae) is 36. Actor Alex D. Linz is 34.
