WHAT HAPPENED ON 3. JANUARY
Want to find out what all happened on 3. January

World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero. (3. January 1944)

World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan. (3. January 1945)

Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him. (3. January 1946)

Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. (3. January 1947)

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established. (3. January 1949)

Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. (3. January 1953)

A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower. (3. January 1956)

The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. (3. January 1957)

The West Indies Federation is formed. (3. January 1958)

Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. (3. January 1959)

Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic. (3. January 1959)

The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. (3. January 1961)

A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers. (3. January 1961)

In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard. (3. January 1961)

Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. (3. January 1962)

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect. (3. January 1976)

Apple Computer is incorporated. (3. January 1977)

Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. (3. January 1990)

In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). (3. January 1993)

More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship. (3. January 1994)