Historical Events for 3rd January 2023

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1825 - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1942 - American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1948 - Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman completes dual Test centuries (132 and 127* [26th Test 100]) in 3rd Test v India in Melbourne
1961 - An explosion at the Nuclear Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls kills three operators
1977 - Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces his intention to be Britain's first President of the European Commission
1987 - Aretha Franklin is the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1988 - Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night premieres on Cinemax; concert performance includes James Burton; Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and k.d. lang)
1992 - Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores an unbeaten 129 in drawn 3rd Test against India in Sydney; his 11th Test century
2014 - Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
2019 - 116th US Congress convenes in Washington, D.C., electing Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time

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