January 3: Historical Events, Famous Birthdays and Deaths On This Day

1861

American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
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1870

Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
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1925

Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
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1944

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.
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1947

Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
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1961

The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
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1977

Apple Computer is incorporated.
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1993

In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
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1994

More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
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