January 3 is:
On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . ten lords a-leaping.
For the significance of each day of Christmas, see: Good Housekeeping.com. The 10 Lords A-leaping are the ten commandments.
Fruitcake Toss Day Yes, it’s time to toss out left-over fruitcake.
Perihelion, the point during the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs on January 3rd in the year 2022 per Time and Date.com
January 3, 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
Publication of Federalist Paper #32: Concerning the General Power of Taxation written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788. Hamilton describes the rights of sovereignty held by the states and the specifically designated rights of the federal government. One area of jurisdiction of the Union is the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises. The constitution explicitly says that states cannot place duties on exports or, unless approved by congress, imports but says nothing about taxing other items so therefore the power to do so remains with the States.
Publication of Federalist Paper #33: Concerning the General Power of Taxation written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788. Hamilton returns to his argument that the national government is allowed to made any laws needed for operating the federal government. His discussion includes the “Necessary and Proper Clause” (“to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers by that constitution vested in the government of the United States or in any department or officer thereof”) Article 1, Section 8; and the “Supremacy Clause” (“the constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof and the treaties made by their authority shall be the supreme law of the land; any thing in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding”) Article VI, Clause 2. He makes sure that the audience understands that this will not take away their liberty.
Birthday of Joseph Damien de Veuster (1840), known as Father Damien, missionary to the lepers on Molokai Island in the Hawaiian archipelago.
Birthday of Grace Coolidge (January 3, 1879), wife of President Calvin Coolidge; first lady 1923-1929. At the time of their marriage, Grace Anna Goodhue was a teacher at a school for the deaf.
Birthday of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), Oxford professor, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Alaska Admission Day; on January 3, 1959 Alaska became the forty-ninth state.
- Capital: Juneau
- Nickname: Last Frontier State; Land of the Midnight Sun; Seward’s Icebox
- Animal: Moose
- Bird: Willow Ptarmigan
- Dog: Alaskan Malamute
- Fish: Giant King Salmon
- Flower: Forget-me-not
- Gem: jade
- Mineral: gold
- Motto: North to the Future
- Tree: Sitka Spruce
See our page Alaska for more interesting facts and trivia about Alaska.
Anniversary of the establishment of the March of Dimes in 1938, an effort to raise money for polio research.
Originally known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, it was established by Franklin Roosevelt. The charity focused on collecting dimes. With entertainer Eddie Cantor coining the phrase “March of Dimes”, the White House received more than $85,000 in donations. With the discovery of the Salk vaccine, the organization changed its focus to maternal and infant mortality, especially the prevention of premature births.
On this date in 1952 “Dragnet” with Jack Webb premiered on NBC-TV.
The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with Cuba on January 3, 1961.
Jan 3, 1977 – Apple Computers was incorporated.