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Events on January 3

• 1521 Pope Leo X. issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, by which he excommunicates the German reformer Martin Luther after the latter failed to comply with the demand in the bull Exsurge Domine to retract his teachings.
• 1777 The Continental Army of the Thirteen Colonies under General George Washington defeats British and Hessian units under Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton in the American Revolutionary War.
• 1851 The French physicist Léon Foucault conducts the first experiment with a Foucault pendulum in the cellar of his house, enabling him to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth.
• 1896 The German Emperor Wilhelm II. sends a congratulatory telegram to Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal, after his victory in the Jameson Raid. The simultaneous publication of the Kruger Telegram leads to severe strains in German-British relations.
• 1925 In a parliamentary speech, Benito Mussolini accepts "full moral, political and historical responsibility" for the murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti on June 10 of the previous year and calls on his political opponents to charge him.
• 1956 The GDR's television service begins regular broadcasting under the name Deutscher Fernsehfunk.
• 1963 In Hanover, the PAL color television system is presented for the first time.
• 1969 The ZDF begins broadcasting the television series Der Kommissar, with Erik Ode in the title role.
• 1976 During the highest storm surge so far on the German North Sea coast, the Haseldorfer Marsch is flooded. Damage amounting to hundreds of millions is caused.
• 1983 Apple introduces Lisa, the first office computer with a mouse.
• 1993 The German Vice-Chancellor and Federal Economics Minister Jürgen Möllemann resigns as a result of the letterhead affair.
• 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto starts the Bitcoin blockchain with the creation of the first 50 bitcoins.

Born on January 3

• 1883 Clement Attlee, British politician
• 1910 John Sturges, American film director
• 1911 Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, German racing driver
• 1920 Siegfried Buback, German jurist, Federal Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice, murder victim of the RAF
• 1930 Robert Loggia, American actor
• 1950 Victoria Principal, American actress
• 1960 Marla Glen, American blues singer
• 1960 Daniela Schadt, German journalist
• 1971 Tarek Al-Wazir, German politician
• 1990 Katharina Krüger, German wheelchair tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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