January 3

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on January 3.

See also:  January,  Today in History,  movable January holidays,  possible January holidays

     spotlight on:  

•  Congress Assembly Day
•  Festival of Sleep
•  Icing Morning (Fairy)
•  National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
•  Riddle of the Year

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - January 03
•  St. Genevieve's Day (patron of Paris, secretaries, actors, lawyers; against drought, fever, floods, plague)
•  Feasts & Saints of the Orthodox Church

anniversaries

directories

January holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

Asia

•  Shogatsu (New Year) continues through today - the most important holiday in Japan

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

Europe

North America

•  Admission Day - in Alaska; 49th U.S. state (1959)

Caribbean

•  Hero's Day - in Haiti

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 3, with 362 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Wednesday
•  2002 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2003 A. D.:  Friday
•  2004 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2005 A. D.:  Monday

•  2006 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2007 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2008 A. D.:  Friday
•  2009 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2010 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2011 A. D.:  Monday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Winter
•  Southern hemisphere:  Summer

zodiac

•  Capricorn

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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008