Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 3

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• Pope Leo X
  Pope Leo X
• Lick Observatory
  Lick Observatory
• James Lick telescope
  James Lick telescope
• Motorola StarTAC
  Motorola StarTAC
• George Woolf and Seabiscuit
  George Woolf and Seabiscuit
• Winston Churchill in 1912
  Winston Churchill in 1912
• Joseph Jenkins Roberts
  Joseph Jenkins Roberts
• Bust of Decius
  Bust of Decius
• First issue of Berlingske
  First issue of Berlingske

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1749 – Benning 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.	Orange "more citations needed" banner
1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts began his term as the first president of Liberia.	refimprove
1919 – Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.	Uncited sections
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
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 the contiguous United States.	unsourced sections and paragraphs
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

Eligible

• 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
• 1521 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther for refusing to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings.
• 1888 – The 36-inch (91 cm) refracting telescope (pictured) at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time.
• 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the operational involvement of Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary.
• 1911 – An earthquake registering 7.7 M_w destroyed Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
• 1938 – The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for polio research.
• 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the world's first electric watch.
• 1961 – All 25 people on board Aero Flight 311 died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when the aircraft crashed near Kvevlax.
• 1973 – CBS announced the sale of the New York Yankees professional baseball team to a group of investors headed by American businessman George Steinbrenner.
• 1976 – The multilateral International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, part of the International Bill of Human Rights, came into effect.
• 2009 – The cryptocurrency network of bitcoin was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.

• Born/died this day: | Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena |d|1743| William Leslie |d|1777| Oliver Bosbyshell |b|1839| William Harrison Ainsworth |d|1882|Clement Attlee |b|1883|Cyril Bassett |b|1892| J. R. R. Tolkien |b|1892| Anna May Wong |b|1905 | Mona Best |b|1924| Hubert Conway Rees |d|1948| Lynn Hill |b|1961| Joy Adamson |d|1980| Nick Daicos |b|2003| Greta Thunberg |b|2003| Robert Clark |d|2013|

Notes

• Battle of the Assunpink Creek appears on January 2 and Washington's crossing of the Delaware/Battle of Trenton appears on December 26, so Battle of Princeton should not appear if either of the two are used

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• 250 – Decius ordered all people in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods, resulting in widespread persecution of Christians.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces commanded by George Washington defeated British troops at the Battle of Princeton (depicted).
• 1990 – United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, the deposed strongman of Panama, surrendered to American forces outside the apostolic nunciature in Panama City.
• 2002 – Second Intifada: Israeli forces seized MV Karine A, which was carrying 50 tons of smuggled weapons on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.