January 3 In History: Unveiling forgotten events

On January 3, in history, some of the most important and forgotten events occurred. In this video, we'll discuss some of the forgotten events that took place on January 3rd in history.

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1431 Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon
1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-five Theses which started the Protestant Reformation
1777 General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey
1823 Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico. On this very date exactly 11 years later in 1834, The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City.
1831 1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
1842 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia
1853 Solomon Northup, author of the memoir "Twelve Years a Slave, is freed after 7 illegal years in slavery with aid of Washington Hunt, Governor of New York
1861 US Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
1861 US state of Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
1870 Construction begins on New York's Brooklyn Bridge; completed May 24, 1883
1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington, D.C.
1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
1889 German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suffers a mental breakdown after supposedly witnessing a horse flogging
1899 1st known use of the word "automobile", appears in an editorial in The New York Times
1918 US Employment Service opens as a unit of the Department of Labor
1933 Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives
1943 1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised - it did not happen again until 1977
1949 US Representative William Dawson becomes 1st Black to head congressional committee - Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments (now known as Committee on Oversight and Reform)
1957 1st electric watch, the Hamilton Electric 500, introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome, a multi-purpose domed stadium, in Houston, Texas
1967 "The Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes
1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1977 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs incorporate Apple Computer, Inc
1987 Aretha Franklin is the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
1994 More than 7 million Black South Africans have their citizenship restored (announced on 15 December 1993 by parliament of President F. W. de Klerk, effective four months before first non-racial polls 27 April, 1994)
1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV
2004 After hosting the show for over 30 years, Casey Kasem gives up the hosting duties of "American Top 40" to Ryan Seacrest
2009 The Bitcoin network is created as the first block of the digital currency is mined by a person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto
2018 First bionic hand with a sense of touch, for use outside a lab unveiled in Rome
2020 US drone strike kills top Iranian security and intelligence commander, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani outside Baghdad airport in Iraq
2022 Elizabeth Holmes, founder of blood-testing start-up Theranos is found guilty on four counts of fraud in San Jose, California