^B{^#!16!3 January^N! Feast day of St Peter Balsam, St Bertilia of Mareuil, St Antherus, pope, and St Genevieve or Genovefa.
^B{1521^B} Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther. ^B{1777^B} The Battle of Princeton took place in the Revolutionary War, in which George Washington defeated the British forces, led by Cornwallis. ^B{1924^B} English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. ^B{1959^B} Alaska became the 49th of the United States. ^B{1962^B} Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban prime minister Fidel Castro. ^B{1991^B} The British government announced that seven Iraqi diplomats, another embassy staff member and 67 other Iraqis were being expelled from Britain. ^B{1993^B} US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and statesman, ^B{106 BC^B}; Clement Attlee, British statesman, ^B{1883^B}; J R R Tolkien, English writer, ^B{1892^B}; Ray Milland, US film actor, ^B{1907^B}; Victor Borge, Danish musician and comedian, ^B{1909^B}; John Thaw, British actor, ^B{1942^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, ^B{1795^B}; Pierre Larousse, French editor and encyclopedist, ^B{1875^B}; Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist, ^B{1923^B}; Conrad Hilton, US hotel magnate, ^B{1979^B}; Joy Adamson, British naturalist and author, ^B{1980^B}.
