TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012

Today is Tuesday, January 3, the third day of 2012. There are 363 days left in the year.

1431 ― Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop

1521 ― Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

1833 ― Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic

1868 ― Meiji Restoration returns authority to Japan's emperors

1910 ― British miners strike for 8-hour working day

1925 ― Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator

1957 ― First electric watch introduced, Lancaster, Pa.

1961 ― U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba

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

1989 ― Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its first commercial advertisement