3 January : Today History, Historical Events, What Happened On This Day, History Of World

3 January : Today History, Historical Events, What Happened On This Day, History Of World

1848 : Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.

1911 : A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.

1925 : Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

1933 : Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

1947 : Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.

1949 : The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.

1957 : The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

1958 : The West Indies Federation is formed.

1959 : Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.

1994 : More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.

1999 : The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.