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On this day: January 3

POSTED: 07:49 PM PST Jan 02, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 02, 2013

Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge, FDR founds the March of Dimes, Apple Computer is incorporated, and Gen. Manuel Noriega surrenders, all on this day.

OTD January 3 - Mars Polar Lander — 34 / 36

NASA

1999: The Mars Polar Lander is launched. The lander was supposed to study the soil and climate of a region near the south pole on Mars. However, NASA would lose radio contact with the spacecraft moments before it entered the Martian atmosphere on Dec. 3, 1999.

OTD January 3 - Martin Luther

OTD January 3 - Brooklyn Bridge

OTD January 3 - Grace Coolidge

OTD January 3 - straw patent

OTD January 3 - JRR Tolkien

OTD January 3 - Ray Milland

OTD January 3 - Victor Borge

OTD January 3 - Benito Mussolini

OTD January 3 - George Martin

OTD January 3 - Sergio Leone

OTD January 3 - Robert Loggia

OTD January 3 - Dabney Coleman

OTD January 3 - March of Dimes

OTD January 3 - Bobby Hull

OTD January 3 - Stephen Stills

OTD January 3 - John Paul Jones

OTD January 3 - Victoria Principal

OTD January 3 - Boltons

OTD January 3 - Eiffel Tower

OTD January 3 - Mel Gibson

OTD January 3 - Alaska

OTD January 3 - Cuban-American relations

OTD January 3 - Fidel Castro

OTD January 3 - Jack Ruby

OTD January 3 - Michael Schumacher

OTD January 3 - George Steinbrenner

OTD January 3 - Danica McKellar

OTD January 3 - Apple Computer

OTD January 3 - Conrad Hilton

OTD January 3 - Joy Adamson

OTD January 3 - Eli Manning

OTD January 3 - Tony Dorsett

OTD January 3 - Manuel Noriega

OTD January 3 - Mars Polar Lander

OTD January 3 - Jack Abramoff

OTD January 3 - Britney Spears

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