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Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero is born in Arpinum, Frosinone, Italy.

Monday 3rd of January 1431

19-year-old Heroine Jeanne d'Arc aka La Pucelle d'Orléans is handed over to the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon in Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, Oise, France.

Friday 3rd of January 1496

44-year-old Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, inventor and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine in Monte Ceceri, Fiesole, Toscana, Italy.

Monday 3rd of January 1521

38-year-old Theologian and church reformer Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X in the bull 'Decet Romanum Pontificem' in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Friday 3rd of January 1840

Catholic priest and missionary Father Damiaan aka The Apostle of the Lepers is born as Jozef De Veuster in Tremelo, Ninde, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

Sunday 3rd of January 1892

Writer, poet, philologist and university professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien known for the fantasy work ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is born in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.

Friday 3rd of January 1896

33-year-old Serial killer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann aka Die Bestie vom Schlesischen Bahnhof is found in farmer Bahorn's pig stye, drunk and with his trousers down in Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany.

Großmann was sentenced to ten months imprisonment for bestiality.

Monday 3rd of January 1916

Murderess Toni Jo Henry is born as Annie Beatrice McQuiston in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.

Saturday 3rd of January 1920

Attorney General of Germany Siegfried Buback is born in Wilsdruff, Sachsen, Germany.

Wednesday 3rd of January 1923

30-year-old Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring marries 35-year-old Carin Fock in München, Bayern, Germany.

Friday 3rd of January 1936

Post-minimalist sculptor Richard Henry Nonas is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Monday 3rd of January 1944

Over 500 die in Galicia mail express, a shunting engine and a coal train collision and fire in Tunnel Nº 20, Torre del Bierzo, León, Spain.

Although the official death toll was 78 and at the time it was estimated to be 200–250, more recent studies have estimated the death toll at over 500.

Monday 3rd of January 1949

Victim of Gertrude Baniszewski Sylvia Marie Likens is born in Lebanon, Indiana, United States.

Tuesday 3rd of January 1956

Actor Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson known from Mad Max is born in Peekskill, New York, United States.

Saturday 3rd of January 1959

Alaska is admitted as 49th U.S. state in Juneau, Alaska, United States.

Wednesday 3rd of January 1962

36-year-old 15th President of Cuba Fidel Alejandro Ruz Castro is excommunicated by Pope John XXIII in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Friday 3rd of January 1964

Film director Bruce LaBruce is born as Justin Stewart or Bryan Bruce in Tiverton, Ontario, Canada.

Tuesday 3rd of January 1967

Nightclub operator Jack Ruby dies of pulmonary embolism secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma at the age of 56 in Parkland Hospital, 5201 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, Texas, United States.

Both President Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald were pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.

Friday 3rd of January 1975

SS-Rottenführer Richard De Bodt aka De Beul van Breendonk dies of diabetes at the age of 67 in Prison de St. Gilles, Avenue Ducpétiaux 106, Brussel, Saint-Gilles, Brabant, Belgium.

Wednesday 3rd of January 1979

Hotelier Conrad Nicholson Hilton dies of natural causes at the age of 92 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Thursday 3rd of January 1980

Naturalist, artist and writer Joy Friederike Victoria Adamson is murdered by discharged labourer Paul Nakware Ekai at the age of 70 in Shaba National Reserve, Eastern Province, Kenya.

Wednesday 3rd of January 1990

The body of 35-year-old Victim of Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer June Cicero is discovered by aerial surveillance in Salmon Creek, Rochester, New York, United States.

She was strangled and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer on 17 December 1989. The surveillance team also spotted Shawcross masturbating in his car on a bridge over Salmon Creek.

Wednesday 3rd of January 1990

51-year-old Serial killer Robert Christian Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter his prison cell is searched and several aviation maps and escape routes are found in Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau, Alaska, United States.

Monday 3rd of January 1994

125 die in Baikal Airlines Flight 130 inflight fire in Irkutsk, Mamony, Irkutsk Oblast, .

Saturday 3rd of January 2004

148 die in Flash Airlines Flight 604 crash in The Red Sea, Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt.

Saturday 3rd of January 2004

Setting sun in Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Thursday 3rd of January 2019

Serial killer Gao Chengyong aka The Chinese Jack the Ripper is executed by hanging at the age of 55 in Baiyin, Gansu, China.