3rd January anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1883
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister ."
  • 1907
  • United States
  • "Birth of Ray Milland (Alfred Jones), film actor." more
  • 1909
  • Denmark
  • "Birth of Victor Borge, Danish-born American comedian, entertainer and pianist, the Clown Prince of Denmark"
• event
  • 1833
  • Great Britain
  • Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic .
  • 1958
  • The West Indies Federation was founded .
  • 1959
  • United States
  • Alaska became the 49th state of the USA
  • 1971
  • Great Britain
  • Open University starts
  • 1985
  • Great Britain
  • Miners Strike Ends
  • 1999
  • United States
  • NASA launched the ill-fated Mars Polar Lander (crashed on Mars)
• Death
  • 1933
  • Germany
  • "Death of Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, Germany ."
  • 1979
  • United States
  • "Death of Conrad Hilton, American hotelier who founded Hilton Hotels"