Today in History, January 3, 2006
Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, January 3, the third day of 2007. There are 362 days left in the year.
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In 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.
In 1777, rebel general George Washington’s army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, N.J.
In 1833, Britain seized control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
In 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
In 1990, ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to US forces, ten days after taking refuge in the Vatican’s diplomatic mission.
In 1993, US president George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a historic nuclear missile-reduction treaty in Moscow.
“‘I can forgive, but I cannot forget,’ is only another way of saying, ‘I will not forgive’. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” — Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (1813-1887).
