January 03

Saturday 03, 2004:

Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard.

Friday 03, 1997:

NBC's Today show host Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time.

Wednesday 03, 1962:

Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

Tuesday 03, 1961:

The SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho leaks radiation, killing three workers at the installation. The radiation is contained.

Friday 03, 1777:

Battle of Princeton. American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis.

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