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