Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 3
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- 1521 - Pope Leo X (pictured) excommunicated Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church after Luther refused to retract 41 of his 95 theses.
- 1749 - Benning Wentworth began to issue the New Hampshire Grants on land which was also claimed by New York, and is now Vermont.
- 1958 - Ten former British colonies in the Caribbean joined to form a new self-governing West Indies Federation.
- 1973 - George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees for US$8.7 million.
- 1990 - United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega, the deposed "strongman of Panama", surrendered.
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