The Phenomenon of January 03: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations

1759  Marquis and Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed.   

1761  Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph), dies at 73   

1763  Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator   

1777  General George Washington's troops emerge victorious against the British in the Battle of Princeton   

1777  Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ.   

1777  Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker   

1780  Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," inaugural sung.   

1780  Danish national anthem "Kong Kristian...," 1st sung.   

1786  Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer   

1789  Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher   

1793  Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist   

1795  Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64   

1802  Feliks Ostrowski, composer   

1803  Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag).   

1810  Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia) [or Jul 24].   

1819  Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892   

1823  Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.   

1823  Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer.   

1825  Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community   

1829  John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian   

1829  Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48.   

1830  Alexander Ewing, composer.   

1831  inaugural US building and loan association organized, Frankford PA   

1831  1st US building and loan association organized, Frankford, Penn   

1833  Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic   

1834  The government of Mexico imprisons Stephen F. Austin in Mexico City   

1835  Larkin Goldsmith Mead, sculptor   

1836  Friedrich Witt, composer, dies at 65.   

1840  The inaugural deep sea sounding is recorded.   

1840  1st deep sea sounding   

1840  Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii.   

1841  Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82.   

1847  California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.   

1848  Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the inaugural president of the independent African Republic of Liberia   

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