MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 2011

Today is Monday, January 3, the third day of 2011. There are 362 days left in the year.

1431 ― Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop

1521 ― Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

1825 ― Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community

1833 ― Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic

1840 ― First deep sea sounding

1868 ― Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors

1920 ― New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000

1925 ― Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator

1987 ― Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts first female artist Aretha Franklin

1988 ― Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British P.M. this century