January
3
Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka)
Tamaseseri, a lively New Year's Festival held on January 3,
in Hakozaki Shrine in Fukuoka-city, and is a traditional form
of fortune-telling. Several hundred men wearing lion cloths
compete on piggy-back in two teams, the "sea" team
and the "land" team team, for possession of a wooden
ball.
f the sea
team wins, a bountiful fishing catch is predicted for the year;
if the land team wins a rich harvest is predicted.
http://www.kyushu-tourist.com/tamaseseri.html
What
happened on 3rd January
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
1911
7.7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Almaty city in Russian
Turkestan.
1921
Turkey makes peace with Armenia
1925
Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament / becomes dictator
1918
US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor
1932
Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt
by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
1938
Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself a victim of polio, founds
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which was later
renamed the March of Dimes Foundation.
1941
Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99
yr lease)
Italian counter offensive in Albania
1943
1st missing persons telecast (NYC)
1947
1st opening session of US Congress to be televised
1958
The West Indies Federation is formed.
1959
Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the
United Suvadive Republic.
1962
Prime Minister , the leader of Cuba at this time, was
excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Other official leaders
of Cuba’s communist regime of this time were thrown out as well.
He was thrown out for violating a large number of the Roman
Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law.
1965
Thousands of antigovernment demonstrators in Saigon
clash with government marines and police over concern that American
influence in South Vietnam was increasing.
1970
Marxist government takes over in Congo
1974
Burma accepts its constitution
1994
More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands,
receive South African citizenship.
100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
1997
China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight
erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
2008
As the arguments continue over the long term future
of the Polar Bear specifically if it should be listed as a threatened
species. The U.S. federal Minerals Management Service has announced
it will hold a lease sale for exploration rights for oil and
gas in a north-western region of Alaska which include sectors
of the Chukchi Sea. The Chukchi Sea is home to one of two populations
of polar bears in the US and environmental groups fear the effects
on wildlife in the region, including the polar bear population.
2011
The state of Queensland in Northeastern Australia experienced
massive flooding, affecting over twenty towns and over 200,000
people.
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