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	Monday, January 03rd The 003rd day of 2011. There are 362 days left in the year. Go to a previous date.

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Today's Highlights in History
See a larger version of this front page.		On Jan. 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state. (Go to article.)On Jan. 3, 1793, Lucretia Mott, an early proponent of the women's rights movement in America, was born.Following her death on Nov. 11,1880, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
		On January 3, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about women's rights. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

On this date in:
1521	Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
1777	Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
1868	The Meiji Restoration re-established the authority of Japan's emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns.
1892	J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1938	The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized.
1961	The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1967	Jack Ruby, the man who fatally shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1990	Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, 10 days after taking refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City.
2000	The last new daily "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles Schulz ran in 2,600 newspapers.
2004	NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, touched down on the red planet.
2006	Lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion and agreed to cooperate in investigations of corruption in Congress.
2009	After seven days of pummeling the Gaza Strip from the air, Israel launched a ground offensive.

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Current Birthdays

Eli Manning turns 30 years old today.

AP Photo/Seth Wenig New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning turns 30 years old today.

85 George Martin Record producer 81 Robert Loggia Actor 79 Dabney Coleman Actor 72 Bobby Hull Hockey Hall of Famer 66 Stephen Stills Rock musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash) 65 John Paul Jones Rock musician (Led Zeppelin) 61 Victoria Principal Actress ("Dallas") 55 Mel Gibson Actor, director 43 Shannon Sturges Actress 36 Danica McKellar Actress ("The Wonder Years")

Historic Birthdays
Lucretia Mott
1/3/1793 - 11/11/1880 Early proponent of the American women's rights movement  (Go to obit.)
86	Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg 1/3/1737 - 11/1/1823 German theorist of Sturm & Drang literary movement
82	Robert Whitehead 1/3/1823 - 11/14/1905 British engineer, invented the modern torpedo
49	Father Damien 1/3/1840 - 4/15/1889 Belgian missionary to Hawaiian lepers
71	Sir Henry Alfred Lytton 1/3/1865 - 8/15/1936 English Gilbert and Sullivan star
84	Clement Attlee 1/3/1883 - 10/8/1967 English prime minister (1945-51)
81	J. R. R. Tolkien 1/3/1892 - 9/2/1973 English novelist and scholar
84	T. Claude Ryan 1/3/1898 - 9/11/1982 American aircraft manufacturer; designed the Spirit of St Louis
62	Dinh Diem Ngo 1/3/1901 - 11/2/1963 South Vietnamese president (1955-63)
86	Boris Kochno 1/3/1904 - 1/8/1990 Russian-born French ballet librettist
22	Morten Nielsen 1/3/1922 - 8/29/1944 Danish poet & resistance fighter

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