Memory of the day: British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovers King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus in 1924

CAIRO – 3 January 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on January 3.

1496 - Leonardo da Vinci fails to test a flying machine he had designed himself.

1521 - Pope Leon X inflicts excommunication on Martin Luther.

1777 – Forces of the American Revolution under General George Washington defeat British forces at the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.

1924 - British Egyptologist Howard Carter discovers the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun, about two years after his tomb was discovered.

1939 - The first edition of the Egyptian Culture magazine is published.

1956 - The beginning of Iraqi television broadcasting, to be the second Arab country after Egypt to enter television broadcasting.

1959 - Alaska becomes the 50th state in the United States.