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What happened on January 2
- January 2, 0366 "Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire."
- January 2, 0533 "Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy."
- January 2, 1492 "Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders."
- January 2, 1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
- January 2, 1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
- January 2, 1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
- January 2, 1602 Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale
- January 2, 1678 "Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles ""Adam und Eva"""
- January 2, 1757 "The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India."
- January 2, 1759 "In Montreal, French Intendant Bigot cuts the bread ration in New France to half a pound per person per day."
- January 2, 1776 Austria ends interrogation torture
- January 2, 1776 First revolutionary flag displayed
- January 2, 1777 "American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey."
- January 2, 1788 Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- January 2, 1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
- January 2, 1790 "Mozart's opera ""Cosi fan tutti"" premieres, Vienna"
- January 2, 1791 "Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War."
- January 2, 1793 Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
- January 2, 1800 Free black community of Philadelphia PA petitions Congress to abolish slavery
- January 2, 1811 US Senator Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the President of the US)
- January 2, 1814 "Lord Byron completes ""The Corsair"""
- January 2, 1818 The British Institution of Civil Engineers is formed.
- January 2, 1831 "Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston"
- January 2, 1832 First Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
- January 2, 1833 Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
- January 2, 1839 First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
- January 2, 1842 First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania
- January 2, 1849 The first gaslit streets in the province of Quebec are lit in Quebec City
- January 2, 1860 The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Acadmie des Sciences in Paris.
- January 2, 1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
- January 2, 1861 SC seizes inactive Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor
- January 2, 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
- January 2, 1870 Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins
- January 2, 1871 Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
- January 2, 1872 Brigham Young is arrested on charges of bigamy for having 25 wives.
- January 2, 1872 Canada and the US first share telegraphed weather reports.
- January 2, 1879 "British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die"
- January 2, 1879 "First Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG"
- January 2, 1879 Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.
- January 2, 1881 "Frederick Varley painter, born at Sheffield England; he was a founding member of Canada's ""Group of Seven"" artists"
- January 2, 1882 "Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust"
- January 2, 1882 John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
- January 2, 1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
- January 2, 1890 Alice Sanger becomes first female White House staffer
- January 2, 1890 "Record 19'2"" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny"
- January 2, 1893 The first US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued
- January 2, 1893 Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers.
- January 2, 1896 "Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)"
- January 2, 1900 "E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7"" single-sided records (Montreal)"
- January 2, 1900 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
- January 2, 1903 "President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black"
- January 2, 1905 "Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine"
- January 2, 1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
- January 2, 1905 "Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur, China."
- January 2, 1905 The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
- January 2, 1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
- January 2, 1908 "The founding of the Royal Mint of Canada, as a branch of the British Royal Mint."
- January 2, 1909 The first official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13 50)
- January 2, 1910 First junior high schools in US open in Berkeley CA
- January 2, 1913 National Woman's Party forms
- January 2, 1914 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
- January 2, 1917 The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
- January 2, 1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
- January 2, 1919 Lithuania gains independence
- January 2, 1920 "10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)"
- January 2, 1920 The Palmer Raids begin in the United States.
- January 2, 1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
- January 2, 1921 "The first radio religious service is broadcast, as Pittsburgh station KDKA airs the Sunday service of the Calvary Episcopal Church."
- January 2, 1923 "Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood FL, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)"
- January 2, 1923 U.S. Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns over the Teapot Dome scandal.
- January 2, 1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
- January 2, 1929 Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
- January 2, 1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
- January 2, 1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
- January 2, 1933 Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
- January 2, 1933 US troops leave Nicaragua
- January 2, 1934 "Bradman scores 253 New South Wales vs Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes"
- January 2, 1934 "First state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania"
- January 2, 1935 "Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh."
- January 2, 1936 "Bradman scores 357 for South Africa vs Victoria, 424 minutes, 40 fours"
- January 2, 1936 "First electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis MO"
- January 2, 1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
- January 2, 1939 "Bradman scores 107 South Africa vs Victoria, his 4th consecutive century"
- January 2, 1941 "World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales."
- January 2, 1942 "28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace"
- January 2, 1942 German troops in Bardia surrender
- January 2, 1942 The Philippine capital city of Manila falls to Japanese invaders during WWII.
- January 2, 1942 World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
- January 2, 1943 Canadian government brings in newsprint rationing.
- January 2, 1944 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
- January 2, 1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg
- January 2, 1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
- January 2, 1946 "Unable to resume rule after World War II, King Zog of Albania abdicates but retains his claim to the throne."
- January 2, 1947 A new specification for aircraft color was issued providing for the use of glossy sea blue on all shipboard and water based aircraft and all helicopters
- January 2, 1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
- January 2, 1949 Luis Muoz Marn became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
- January 2, 1951 "Trade Minister C.D. Howe announces construction of a $30 million-dollar atomic reactor facility at Chalk River, Ontario."
- January 2, 1954 "Herman Wouks ""Caine Mutiny,"" premieres in New York City NY"
- January 2, 1955 "First ""Bob Cummings Show"" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)"
- January 2, 1955 Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
- January 2, 1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
- January 2, 1957 The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and Los Angeles Oil Exchange merge.
- January 2, 1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
- January 2, 1959 "The first artificial satellite to orbit the moon, Luna 1, is launched by the U.S.S.R."
- January 2, 1959 "USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for first lunar fly-by, first solar orbit"
- January 2, 1960 First redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
- January 2, 1960 "John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years"
- January 2, 1960 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony premieres
- January 2, 1960 "Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President"
- January 2, 1961 "Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14�F recorded atop Haleakale"
- January 2, 1962 "Nighttime version of ""Password"" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS"
- January 2, 1964 Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan
- January 2, 1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
- January 2, 1968 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
- January 2, 1969 """Soviet Sport"" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy"
- January 2, 1969 FLQ bombs are discovered in Ottawa.
- January 2, 1969 Luis Ferr becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.
- January 2, 1969 "Operation Barrier Reef began in Mekong Delta, Vietnam"
- January 2, 1970 "Dutch premiere of musical ""Hair"" in Amsterdam"
- January 2, 1970 "US population is 293,200,000; Black population 22,600,000 (11.1%)"
- January 2, 1971 "A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66"
- January 2, 1971 The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football game.
- January 2, 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
- January 2, 1974 Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
- January 2, 1974 U.S. President Nixon signs into law a national highway speed limit of 55 miles per hour.
- January 2, 1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
- January 2, 1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
- January 2, 1978 B�lent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
- January 2, 1978 "Rhino Records releases their first album ""Wildmania"""
- January 2, 1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins
- January 2, 1980 68th Australian Men Tennis Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62)
- January 2, 1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 meter butterfly (2 05.65)
- January 2, 1981 "Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, West Indies vs Pakistan"
- January 2, 1982 """Camelot"" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 48 performances"
- January 2, 1982 70th Australian Mens Tennis Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64)
- January 2, 1982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
- January 2, 1982 "San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13 52 of OT"
- January 2, 1983 """Sophisticated Ladies"" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City NY after 767 performances"
- January 2, 1983 Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
- January 2, 1983 "Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing ""Doonesbury"""
- January 2, 1983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati OH completes record 20 consecutive passes
- January 2, 1983 "Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau starts 18-day mission to Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines"
- January 2, 1983 "The musical Annie, based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, ends its Broadway run after 2,377 performances."
- January 2, 1984 "Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his first first-class cricket century"
- January 2, 1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
- January 2, 1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100
- January 2, 1984 "Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's first black mayor"
- January 2, 1985 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
- January 2, 1985 Egyptian President Mubarak re-appoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
- January 2, 1985 "Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score"
- January 2, 1985 Undefeated Brigham Young University becomes college football champion
- January 2, 1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
- January 2, 1986 "New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal"
- January 2, 1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
- January 2, 1987 Troops of Chad President Habr� conquer Fada oasis
- January 2, 1988 "Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Pennsylvania"
- January 2, 1988 Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
- January 2, 1990 "Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)"
- January 2, 1990 "Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)"
- January 2, 1991 "Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC, becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance."
- January 2, 1992 "Test debut of Shane Warne, vs India at Sydney"
- January 2, 1993 Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.
- January 2, 1994 """Shakespeare after My Father"" closes at Helen Hayes New York City NY after 266 performances"
- January 2, 1994 "Battles between army & rebellious Indians in South Mexico, kill 57"
- January 2, 1995 "Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed"
- January 2, 1995 "Marion Barry is sworn in as mayor of Washington DC, four years after leaving office to serve a six-month sentence for drug possession."
- January 2, 1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)
- January 2, 1996 Bookclip.com launched. Unique invention to Keep Books Open.
- January 2, 1997 Residents of southern and eastern Ontario are digging out again this morning after another round of snow.
- January 2, 1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
- January 2, 1998 Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
- January 2, 1999 "A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) at Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13F (-25C); 68 deaths are reported."
- January 2, 2001 Sila Caldern becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
- January 2, 2002 Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
- January 2, 2002 Levy Mwanawasa takes office as the third President of Zambia.
- January 2, 2002 UK hist UK 1901 census details available
- January 2, 2004 "Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later."
- January 2, 2006 An explosion in a coal mine leads to the death of 12 of 13 miners in the 2006 Sago Mine disaster in West Virginia.
- January 2, 2006 "Fifteen people die in the Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse tragedy in Bavaria, Germany."
- January 2, 2008 Massachusetts decriminalizes the recreational use of marijuana.
- January 2, 2008 Oil reached $100 US a barrel
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