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Today in History ~ January 2
Granada Day in Spain
Events0069 - Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
1235 - Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1492 - Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) when the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I. [H]
1570 - Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
1602 - Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish
1757 - British troops occupy Calcutta India
1776 - 1st US revolutionary flag displayed
1788 - Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so, and was admitted to the union. [H]
1790 - Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
1811 - US Sen. Timothy Pickering, a Federalist from Massachusetts, became the first senator to be censured after being accused of violating congressional law by publicly revealing secret documents communicated by the president to the Senate. [H]
1814 - Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
1818 - Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
1831 - Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1839 - 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1843 - Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holl^Änder" premieres, Dresden
1861 - SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
1870 - Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins
1881 - Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
1882 - Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1885 - Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
1893 - World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1897 - Stephen Crane's boat sinks
1900 - Secretary of State John Hay announced the "Open Door Policy" to facilitate trade with China.
1900 - E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)
1900 - Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
1903 - Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, Miss. for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1905 - Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur
1919 - Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1919 - The New York Stock Exchange installed a separate ticker to track bond trading.
1921 - Religious services were broadcast on radio for the first time as KDKA in Pittsburgh aired the regular Sunday service of the city's Calvary Episcopal Church.
1923 - Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, Albert Fall resigns in Teapot Dome scandal [H]
1923 - Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
1929 - The United States and Canada reached agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.
1935 - Bruno Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was found guilty, and executed.)
1936 - 1st electron tube, ( TV Picture Tube) demonstrated, St Louis, Mo.
1942 - Japanese forces occupied Manila, forcing U.S. and Philippine forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur to withdraw to the Bataan peninsula.
1942 - Navy opens a blimp base in New Jersey
1944 - 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1945 - Allied air raid on Nuremberg
1947 - Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1952 - "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
1954 - Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in NYC
1958 - Celebrated soprano Maria Callas walks off after the first act of a gala performance of Bellini's Norma in Rome,
1959 - The Soviet Union launched Lunik-1, the first unmanned spacecraft to travel to the moon.
1960 - Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1960 - John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
1963 - Viet Cong are successful at Ap Bac
1965 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters
1966 - 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion (See January 1)
1967 - U.S. planes down seven enemy planes
1969 - Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black," premieres in NYC
1974 - President Nixon signed a bill requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph or lose federal highway funds. (however, federal speed limits were abolished in 1995).
1974 - Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1975 - US Dept of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
1980 - Carter reacts to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
1981 - British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted as the "Yorkshire Ripper" murderer of 13 women
1983 - "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances
1983 - "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 767 performances
1983 - Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"
1990 - Britain's most wanted terrorist suspect, Patrick Sheehy, was found dead in the Republic of Ireland.
1990 - Elite Soviet interior ministry troops seize public buildings in the Baltic republics of Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon was sworn in as mayor of Washington, D.C., becoming the first black woman to head a city of Washington's size and prominence.
1992 - Military commanders in Croatia agreed to a cease-fire accord, the 15th attempt at a truce.
1992 - Russian shoppers experienced their first day of "sticker shock" after President Boris Yeltsin lifted price controls to stimulate production.
1996 - AT&T Takes $6 Billion Charge Against Fourth-Quarter Earnings
1997 - Rain and melting snow swamped the West, trapping visitors in Yosemite National Park, closing casinos in Reno, Nev., and forcing the evacuation of 50,000 Californians.
2001 - President-elect Bush nominated a Democrat to his Cabinet, picking Norman Mineta, President Clinton's commerce secretary, to head the Department of Transportation. Spencer Abraham to be energy secretary and Linda Chavez to be secretary of labor. (However, Chavez ended up withdrawing after it was disclosed she had given money and shelter to an illegal immigrant who once did chores around Chavez's house.)
2001 - Ships made the first legal and direct crossing between China and Taiwan in more than half a century.
Birthdays Today
1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)
1727 - James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)
1752 - Philip Freneau (Poet of the American Revolution: The Indian Burying Ground)
1822 - Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1837 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
1889 - Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor (La Rondine)
1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1904 - James Melton (singer: La Traviata)
1904 - Fan dancer Sally Rand
1905 - Pinky (Arthur) Whitney (baseball)
1917 - Vera Zorina (Eva Hartwig) (dancer, actress: Star-Spangled Rhythm)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1922 - Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano
1927 - Gino Marchetti (football: Baltimore Colts)
1927 - Jason Evers (actor)
1928 - Vaughn Beals, Cambridge Mass, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle)
1930 - Julius LaRosa (singer: Anywhere I Wander, Eh Cumpari, Arthur Godfrey's radio/TV shows; movie: Let's Rock; DJ: WNEW, NYC)
1936 - Roger Miller (songwriter: Invitation to the Blues, You Don't Want My Love; singer: Dang Me, King of the Road, Chug-a-Lug; 11 Grammys in 1964-65; wrote hit musical: Big River)
1937 - Martin Lauer (hurdler)
1939 - Jim Bakker, televangelist (PTL Club)
1947 - Bill Bradley (football)
1947 - Calvin Hill (football: Dallas Cowboys running back, Super Bowl V, VI)
1949 - Mike Newlin (basketball)
1950 - Guy Smith (hockey)
1951 - Bill Madlock (baseball: National League Batting Champion, Chicago Cubs 1975,1976; Pittsburgh Pirates 1981, 1983)
1967 - Actress Tia Carrere
1968 - Actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
1969 - Model Christy Turlington
Famous deaths
0017 - Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies
1780 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66
1861 - Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65
1904 - James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82
1915 - Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84
1955 - Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama (1952-55), assassinated
1990 - Alan Hale Jr, Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71
2001 - Former Attorney General and Secretary of State William P. Rogers died in Bethesda, Md., at age 87.
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