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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1994
More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
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2015
Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the 2015 Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
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