January 3: This Day in History

Today in History Featured Fact, 1521:
Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

Also Today:
1870: Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
1958: Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole overland.
1959: Alaska becomes the 49th state in the United States.

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