1431 – Joan of Arc was handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.
1777 - General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, NJ
1825 - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan
1872 - 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
1888 - 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC
1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress were televised for the first time.
2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/january-3/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/3/default.stm
3 January Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
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