On Jan. 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt, Howard Carter and his workers found the stone sarcophagus that contained the gold coffin and mummy of the boy king.
Jan. 3 On this date in history:
In 1777, the Continental Army commanded by Gen. George Washington defeated the British at Princeton, N.J. A portrait of Washington following the Battle of Princeton — donated to the State Department in 1989, was found in 2023 to have been painted by Charles Wilson Peale.
In 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt, Howard Carter and his workers found the stone sarcophagus that contained the gold coffin and mummy of the boy king. Carter said at the time that he believed that « almost every square yard of floor space contains a king’s ransom » in the tomb.
In 1933, Minnie Craig becomes the first female speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives. Craig was the first woman to hold a speakership in the United States.
In 1938, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the March of Dimes, a non-profit that began with an appeal for dimes to fight polio.
