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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