Daily Calendar for Sunday, January 3, 2027
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Sunday, January 3, 2027
Born
- Lucretia Mott (social reformer) –
- Larkin Goldsmith Mead (sculptor) –
- J.R.R. Tolkien (author) –
- Marion Davies (actress) –
- William Willis Morgan (astronomer, born in Bethesda, Tennessee) –
- Victor Borge (pianist & comedian) –
- Joan Walsh Anglund (illustrator) –
- Dabney Coleman (actor) –
- Stephen Stills (musician) –
- John Paul Jones (musician) –
- Mel Gibson (actor) –
- Eli Manning (football player) –
- Greta Thunberg (Swedish environmental activist ) –
Died
- Jack Ruby (convicted killer of Lee Harvey Oswald) –
- Conrad Hilton (hotelier) –
- Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken (Dutchman who helped make his namesake beer one of the world’s most popular) –
Events
- Martin Luther was formally excomunicated from the Roman Catholic church by Pope Leo X –
- General George Washington defeated the British under Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton –
- First covered skating rink in Canada opened, in Halifax, Nova Scotia –
- Construction began on the Brooklyn Bridge in N.Y.C. –
- First free kindergarten opened, Florence, Massachusetts –
- Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan. The loan was to finance Frazee’s Broadway production of the musical No, No, Nanette –
- Benito Mussolini proclaimed a Fascist dictatorship in Italy –
- British broadcaster of propaganda from Nazi Germany during WW II, William Joyce (nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw), was hanged in Great Britain for treason –
- Dragnet made its television debut –
- Members of the newly created U.S. Civil Rights Commision took office –
- President Eisenhower signed proclamation making Alaska the 49th state –
- Moscow State Symphony first Soviet orchestra to play in the United States (in N.Y.C.). –
- The U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Cuba –
- The Vatican excommunicated Cuban premier, Fidel Castro, from the Roman Catholic church –
- Times Beach, Missouri, declared a federal disaster area after fall floods spread dangerous amounts of the toxic chemical dioxin –
- Soprano Leontyne Price made her farewell appearance at New York’s Metropolitan Opera –
- Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame –
- Miss Canada pageant canceled due to costs and changing times –
- Spirit rover landed on Mars –
- A U.S. quarter-dollar coin featuring poet Maya Angelou is issued as part of the American Women Series. –
Weather
- Greatest accumulation of ice ever in U.S. history after 3 day period, 8 inches in Idaho –
- Fifty degrees below zero F at Canton, New York –
- Areas of northern Fairfield County in Connecticut received up to an inch of ice. –