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This is a list of selected January 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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1521Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church after Luther refused to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings. Leo: refimprove section; Decet Romanum: stubby
1749Benning Wentworth, Governor of the New Hampshire Colony, began to issue the New Hampshire Grants on land which was also claimed by New York, and is now Vermont. needs more footnotes
1833 – With the arrival of two British naval ships at the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom re-asserted sovereignty there. refimprove section
1848Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first President of Liberia. refimprove
1888 – The 36 in (91 cm) refracting telescope' at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, at the time the largest in the world, was used for the first time. lots of {{cn}} tags
1946 – Canadian-American jockey George Woolf, who rode Seabiscuit to a famous victory over War Admiral in 1938, was fatally injured when he fell from his horse during a race. refimprove section
1949 – The first Central Bank of the Philippines was formally inaugurated with Miguel Cuaderno, Sr. as the first governor. refimprove section
1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the world's first electric watch. unreferenced section; electric watch: refimprove
1958 – Ten former British colonies in the Caribbean joined to form a new self-governing West Indies Federation. needs more footnotes
1959 – As a result of the Alaska Statehood Act, the Territory of Alaska became the 49th U.S. state, and the first outside of the contiguous United States. refimprove section
1973 – American businessman George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees professional baseball team for $8.7 million. Steinbrenner: refimprove section; Yankees: refimprove section
1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first clamshell mobile phone, was released and went on to become one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption. refimprove section

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January 3

"Battle of Princeton" by John Trumbull
Battle of Princeton by John Trumbull

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (d. 1670) · Clement Attlee (b. 1883) · Lynn Hill (b. 1961)

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