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Historical Events

02 Jan 1235
Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
02 Jan 1492
Muhammad XII. (Boabdil) last Nasird ruler of Moorish fortress Alhambra surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs
02 Jan 1585
Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
02 Jan 1602
Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale
02 Jan 1678
Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles Adam und Eva
02 Jan 1791
Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
02 Jan 1800
Free African American community of Philadelphia petitions US Congress to abolish the slave trade
02 Jan 1811
US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)
02 Jan 1818
Lord Byron completes Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (4th canto)
02 Jan 1818
The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
02 Jan 1831
Liberator abolitionist newspaper begins publishing in Boston
02 Jan 1832
1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
02 Jan 1833
Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
02 Jan 1842
1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
02 Jan 1861
South Carolina seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
02 Jan 1861
Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
02 Jan 1879
British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid 9 die
02 Jan 1879
Dr Benjamin Mays named president of Atlanta Board of Education
02 Jan 1879
Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized Rockford Illinois
02 Jan 1881
Camille Saint-Sans 3rd Concerto in B premieres
02 Jan 1882
Because of anti-monopoly laws Standard Oil is organized as a trust
02 Jan 1883
Battle of Boschberg takes place in South Africa as part of the Mapoch War
02 Jan 1885
General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
02 Jan 1890
Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
02 Jan 1890
Record 19.2 feet alligator shot in Louisiana by American businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny
02 Jan 1893
1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella patron of Columbus)
02 Jan 1893
Worlds Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
02 Jan 1896
Battle at Doornkop South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
02 Jan 1900
E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7 single-sided records (Montreal)
02 Jan 1900
John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
02 Jan 1905
Elara a satellite of Jupiter discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine in San Jose California
02 Jan 1905
Japanese troops capture Port Arthur from Russia a blow to national morale and causing further discontent within Russia
02 Jan 1905
American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms
02 Jan 1908
Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
02 Jan 1909
1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 1350)
02 Jan 1910
1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California)
02 Jan 1911
Brookyln Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30000
02 Jan 1914
Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
02 Jan 1918
Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes & Mamaux
02 Jan 1918
NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
02 Jan 1920
Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution US Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists
02 Jan 1921
1st religious service radio broadcast in US KDKA-Pittsburgh
02 Jan 1923
Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Florida 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
02 Jan 1925
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
02 Jan 1932
Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
02 Jan 1933
Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers in NY 13-3
02 Jan 1933
Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
02 Jan 1936
1st electron tube to enable night vision described St Louis Missouri
02 Jan 1936
Bradman scores 357 for South Australia v Victoria 424 minutes 40 fours
02 Jan 1939
Bradman scores 107 South Australia v Victoria his 4th consecutive century
02 Jan 1941
World War II German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff Wales
02 Jan 1941
World War II The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
02 Jan 1942
World War II the 28 nations at war with Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals
02 Jan 1942
The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst New Jersey
02 Jan 1944
1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
02 Jan 1945
Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak ends in 1955
02 Jan 1947
Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
02 Jan 1948
WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark NY (PBS) begins
02 Jan 1949
KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
02 Jan 1949
Luis Muoz Marn becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
02 Jan 1951
Philip Barrys Second Threshold premieres in NYC
02 Jan 1952
Pal Joey opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
02 Jan 1953
NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
02 Jan 1955
1st Bob Cummings Show premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
02 Jan 1955
Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
02 Jan 1956
Poujadistscommunists win French parliamentary elections
02 Jan 1957
In the first of 4 meetings between the fighters Gene Fullmer wins the world middleweight boxing title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Sugar Ray Robinson at New Yorks Madison Square Garden
02 Jan 1959
USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by 1st solar orbit
02 Jan 1960
1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
02 Jan 1960
John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4950000000 years
02 Jan 1961
Hawaiis then all time low temperature 14F recorded atop Haleakale
02 Jan 1962
Nighttime version of Password with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
02 Jan 1965
Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
02 Jan 1966
1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
02 Jan 1966
Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
02 Jan 1968
Zizi closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
02 Jan 1968
Christiaan Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant on Philip Blaiberg
02 Jan 1968
KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco California (IND) begins broadcasting
02 Jan 1969
Fig Leaves Are Falling opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
02 Jan 1969
Soviet Sport calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
02 Jan 1969
Lorraine Hansberrys To be Young Gifted & Black premieres in NYC
02 Jan 1969
Luis Ferr becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico
02 Jan 1969
Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta Vietnam
02 Jan 1970
US population is 293200000 African American population 22600000 (11.1%)
02 Jan 1971
A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland killing 66
02 Jan 1972
Rothschilds closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 performances
02 Jan 1972
AFC Championship Game Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0
02 Jan 1972
An anti-internment rally is held in Belfast North Ireland
02 Jan 1972
NFC Championship Game Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 14-3
02 Jan 1973
Japanese boxer Masao Ohba retains his WBA flyweight title with a 12th-round knockout of Chartchai Chionoi of Thailand in Tokyo Ohba dies three weeks later in a car accident
02 Jan 1974
Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
02 Jan 1975
US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
02 Jan 1978
Rhino Records releases their 1st album Wildmania
02 Jan 1979
30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
02 Jan 1979
Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)
02 Jan 1979
Australian Open Womens Tennis unseeded Australian Christine ONeil wins her first and only Grand Slam event beats American Betsy Nagelsen 6-3 7-6
02 Jan 1980
Australian Open Mens Tennis Guillermo Vilas retains title for 4th and last Grand Slam win beats American John Sadri 7-6 6-3 6-2
02 Jan 1981
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (205.65)
02 Jan 1981
Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick WI v Pakistan
02 Jan 1981
Australian Open Womens Tennis Martina Navratilova wins her 1st of 3 Australian singles crowns beats Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-7 6-4 7-5
02 Jan 1982
Camelot closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances
02 Jan 1982
Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
02 Jan 1982
The Epic in Miami in 85 degree heat (Fahrenheit) the San Diego Chargers defeat the Miami Dolphins 41-38 in overtime in the AFC Divisional Playoff Game a game that set numerous playoff scoring records
02 Jan 1983
Annie closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2377 performances
02 Jan 1983
Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
02 Jan 1983
Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing Doonesbury
02 Jan 1983
Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
02 Jan 1983
Several African National Congress (ANC) members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique.
02 Jan 1984
Darryl Cullinan 16 scores his 1st first-class cricket century
02 Jan 1984
Wilson Goode sworn-in as Philadelphias 1st black mayor
02 Jan 1985
90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
02 Jan 1985
Australia beat WI by innings at SCG Bob Holland 10 match wkts
02 Jan 1985
Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140 highest college basketball score
02 Jan 1985
Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
02 Jan 1986
191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
02 Jan 1987
Troops of Chad President Habr conquer Fada oasis
02 Jan 1988
Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons Penn
02 Jan 1988
Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambiques western border killing at least 22 people and injuring 71.
02 Jan 1989
Superwoman single released by Karyn White (Billboard Song of the Year )
02 Jan 1990
Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair Arn Anderson Ole Anderson)
02 Jan 1993
Gypsy Passion closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
02 Jan 1993
Opposing factions in the Bosnian conflict hold meetings with the aim of ending the nine month conflict
02 Jan 1994
Abe Lincoln in Illinois closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 performances
02 Jan 1994
Shakespeare after My Father closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 266 performances
02 Jan 1994
Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico kill 57
02 Jan 1995
Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
02 Jan 1996
The US deploys troops in Northern Bosnia with the intention of maintaining order and peace between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims
02 Jan 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
02 Jan 1998
Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
02 Jan 1999
A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee Wisconsin and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago where temperatures plunge to -13F (-25C) 68 deaths are reported.
02 Jan 2001
Sila Caldern becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
02 Jan 2002
Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
02 Jan 2004
Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2 collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later
02 Jan 2014
30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat India
02 Jan 2016
Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorists including Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr
02 Jan 2017
US House Republicans vote to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics a public uproar forces them to back down the next day
02 Jan 2018
Bus crash in Pasamayo Peru kills 51 on notorious Devils Curve road
02 Jan 1865
Welterweight Con Orem & heavyweight Hugh ONeill brawl for 185 rounds before darkness ends legendary bare knuckle boxing match in Virginia City Montana
02 Jan 1912
Brookyln Superbas Baseball Club President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of 4.5 acres of land to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 23000 Ebbets Field opens in 1913
02 Jan 1918
After repeated clashes over pay with the Brooklyn Robins owner Charlie Ebbets star right fielder and future Baseball Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel is traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates
02 Jan 1918
Montreal Arena in Westmount Quebec the home rink of 4-time NHL Stanley Cup winners the Montreal Wanderers burns down leading to the club disbanding
02 Jan 1936
Australian master batsman Don Bradman scores 357 (424 minutes 40 fours) for South Australia v Victoria in a Sheffield Shield match in Melbourne his 5th 300 score in first-class cricket
02 Jan 1939
Master batsman Don Bradman scores 107 for South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match against Victoria for his 4th consecutive century in first-class cricket
02 Jan 1943
University of Kentucky Wildcats mens basketball team begins 129 home game winning streak that only ends in 1955 incorporates NCAA titles in 1948 1949 and 1951
02 Jan 1953
NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a record 32 game road losing streak (12 games in 1952-53 20 games in -54) with a 73-66 defeat at the Indianapolis Olympians
02 Jan 1965
New York Jets sign future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath to a 427000 contract over three years (pro football record at the time)
02 Jan 1966
National Football League Championship Lambeau Field Green Bay Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 first NFL title game televised in colour last one played before Super Bowl era
02 Jan 1969
Once influential daily sports newspaper Soviet Sport declares Czech super-star distance runner Emil Zatopek a public enemy after he supports democratic wing of the Communist Party at start of the Prague Spring
02 Jan 1971
Spectator crush at Ibrox Park in Glasgow Scotland as Rangers supporters leave the ground with home team 0-1 behind to Old Firm rivals Celtic 66 deaths and more than 200 injuries Rangers score late for 1-1
02 Jan 1972
AFC Championship Miami Orange Bowl Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0
02 Jan 1972
NFC Championship Texas Stadium Irving Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco 49ers 14-3
02 Jan 1982
New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to start 23 NHL game undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
02 Jan 1983
In a 35-27 win over the Houston Oilers Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson completes 20 consecutive passes and finishes the season winning his second consecutive passing title with an NFL record 70.55% completion percentage
02 Jan 1984
16 year old future South African Test cricket batsman Darryl Cullinan scores his 1st first-class century (106 no) for Border against Natal B in East London
02 Jan 1985
Leg-spin bowler Bob Dutchy Holland takes 490 for match figures of 10144 as Australia beats the West Indies by innings in 5th Test in Sydney Windies take series 3-1
02 Jan 1985
Nevada Las Vegas basketball gives coach Jerry Tarkanian his 600th career victory with a 142-140 win over Utah State in triple overtime total of 282 points breaks NCAA mens record of 275 set in 1976
02 Jan 1987
Indiana Pacers beat the Los Angeles Clippers 116-106 to give coach Jack Ramsay his 800th NBA victory at the time Ramsey is one of only 2 coaches (with Red Auerbach) to reach milestone
02 Jan 1989
UCLA beats Arkansas Razorbacks 17-3 to win the Cotton Bowl Classic in Dallas record 7th consecutive football bowl game victory for the Bruins
02 Jan 1990
Sting joins pro wrestlings legendary 4 Horsemen (Ric Flair Arn Anderson Ole Anderson)
02 Jan 1991
University of Colorado Boulder coached by Bill McCartney wins its first Associated Press National Championship of College Football poll
02 Jan 1992
Australian cricket spin bowling great Shane Warne (145 Tests 708 wickets 194 ODIs) makes Test debut v India in 3rd Test at Sydney Cricket Ground
02 Jan 2000
19600 fans watch the Miami Heat beat the Orlando Magic 111-103 in the first NBA game at the Heats new American Airlines Arena in Miami
02 Jan 2012
Englishman Adrian Lewis retains his PDC World Darts Championship with a 7-3 win over Andy Hamilton at the Alexandra Palace London
02 Jan 2017
Michael van Gerwen of the Netherlands wins his 2nd PDC World Darts Championship beating defending champion Gary Anderson 7-3 at the Alexandra Palace London
02 Jan 2018
WHO reveals it will classify gaming addiction as mental health condition in its next Classification of Diseases
02 Jan 2018
Storm Eleanor forms near Ireland then sweeps across the UK and Western Europe in next few days
02 Jan 2019
United States international Christian Pulisic becomes the most expensive American soccer player when he moves from Borussia Dortmund to Chelsea for 58 remains at Dortmund on loan until the end of the season
02 Jan 2019
Two women become the first to ever enter Indias Sabarimala shrine in Kerala State after law change prompting protests
02 Jan 1776
Austria ends the use of interrogation by torture
02 Jan 1912
International Lawn Tennis Challenge Christchurch NZ Norman Brookes & Alfred Dunlop beat Americans Maurice McLoughlin & Beals Wright 6-4 5-7 7-5 6-4 Australasia unassailable 3-0 lead win 4-0
02 Jan 1918
Montreal Arena in Westmount Quebec the home rink of 4-time Stanley Cup winners the Montreal Wanderers burns down leading to the club disbanding
02 Jan 1947
Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengal
02 Jan 2011
Fela based on music and lyrics by Nigerian singer Fela Kuti closes on Broadway after 463 performances and 3 Tony awards [1]
02 Jan 1960
Roger Sessions 4th Symphony in honor of the Minnesota Centennial premieres by the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorti
02 Jan 1913
Australia releases its first national stamp - a kangaroo on a map of Australia
02 Jan 1926
Melody Maker British popular music magazine publishes 1st issue
02 Jan 1969
Robert B. Nemiroffs stage drama To Be Young Gifted & Black adaptated from the writings of his late wife of Lorraine Hansberry starring Ruby Dee premieres in NYC
02 Jan 1969
The Beatles begin rehearsals while being filmed for the Let It Be project at Twickenham Film Studios London
02 Jan 1818
Lord Byron completes the long narrative poem Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (4th canto)
02 Jan 1881
Camille Saint-Sans 3rd Violin Concerto in B premieres in Paris France with Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate as soloist and dedicatee
02 Jan 1942
World War II The 28 nations at war with the Axis powers pledge to make no separate peace deals
02 Jan 1951
Philip Barrys play Second Threshold premieres in NYC
02 Jan 1958
Dmitri Shostakovich 2nd Piano concert premieres in NY
02 Jan 1969
Allan Sherman and Albert Hagues musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling starring Dorothy Loudon Barry Nelson and David Cassidy opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC runs for 4 performances
02 Jan 1970
Dutch premiere of Galt MacDermot Gerome Ragni and James Rados hippie musical Hair in Amsterdam
02 Jan 1993
Tomas Rodriquez-Pantojas flamenco musical revue Gypsy Passion closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
02 Jan 1994
Revival of Robert E. Shermans stage drama Abe Lincoln in Illinois starring Sam Waterston closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 performances
02 Jan 1879
British battleship HMS Thunderer gun turret explodes during gunnery practice in Gulf of Izmit near Turkey 11 sailors killed and 35 injured
02 Jan 1905
In Chicago Illinois a conference of 23 industrial trade unionists issues the Industrial Union Manifesto calling for a convention to be held in Chicago in June laying the groundwork for the formation of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
02 Jan 1955
1st The Bob Cummings Show premieres on NBC (later moves to CBS)
02 Jan 1984
16-year-old future South African Test cricket batsman Darryl Cullinan scores his 1st first-class century (106 no) for Border against Natal B in East London
02 Jan 1990
Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 2800 (2810.15)
02 Jan 2019
United States international Christian Pulisic becomes the most expensive American soccer player when he moves from Borussia Dortmund to Chelsea for 57.6M (73M) remains at Dortmund on loan until the end of the season
02 Jan 2022
Israel becomes one of the first countries to offer a fourth vaccine dose against COVID-19 amid an Omicron surge
02 Jan 2022
Sudans Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigns in a televised address amid political deadlock after a rejection of his deal with the military by pro-democracy forces
02 Jan 2023
Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapses in cardiac arrest and is revived by CPR on the field in televised NFL game against the Bengals in Cincinnati
02 Jan 2024
Claudine Gay Harvard Universitys first Black president resigns following testimony to Congress on anti-semitism and amid plagiarism allegations [1]
02 Jan 2024
Japan Airlines Flight 516 crashes into Coast Guard plane and burns during landing at Haneda airport in Tokyo all 379 passengers and crew on board the JAL Airbus evacuate safely 5 of the 6 Coast Guard members are killed
02 Jan 1585
Habsburg Spain and Catholic France sign the secret Treaty of Joinville to end Protestantism in Europe
02 Jan 1602
Spanish forces in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsale
02 Jan 1791
Big Bottom Massacre in the Ohio Country begins the Northwest Indian War
02 Jan 1818
Institution of Civil Engineers is founded in Britain
02 Jan 1832
First curling club in the US opens the Orchard Lake Curling Club
02 Jan 1833
Re-establishment of British rule over the Falkland Islands
02 Jan 1842
First US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania
02 Jan 1890
Alice Sanger becomes the first female White House staffer
02 Jan 1890
Record 19.2-foot alligator is shot in Louisiana by American businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny
02 Jan 1893
First US commemoratives and first US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella patron of Columbus)
02 Jan 1896
Battle of Doornkop Boers defeat Dr. Jamesons troops in South Africa
02 Jan 1900
mile Berliner begins manufacturing 7-inch single-sided records in Montreal
02 Jan 1905
Conference of 23 industrial trade unionists in Chicago Illinois issues the Industrial Union Manifesto calling for a convention in Chicago in June and laying the groundwork for the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
02 Jan 1909
First official Dutch Eleven Cities Skate (Minne Hoekstra in 1350)
02 Jan 1921
First religious service radio broadcast in the US over KDKA in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
02 Jan 1921
The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum of fine arts opens in Golden Gate Park San Francisco California
02 Jan 1924
Book publisher Simon & Schuster is founded in New York by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster
02 Jan 1929
US and Canada agree to preserve the Niagara Falls
02 Jan 1932
Young gang shoots dead six police officers in Springfield Missouri
02 Jan 1934
First state liquor stores open in Pennsylvania
02 Jan 1936
First electron tube to enable night vision is described in St Louis Missouri
02 Jan 1941
World War II US government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort
02 Jan 1947
Mahatma Gandhi begins a march for peace in East Bengal
02 Jan 1955
Panamanian President Jos Antonio Remn is assassinated
02 Jan 1958
Dmitri Shostakovich 2nd Piano Concerto has US premiere with Leonard Bernstein as soloist and conductor of the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie hall in NYCs in NY
02 Jan 1960
First redshank an Old World shorebird reported in North America (Halifax)
02 Jan 1961
Hawaiis then all-time low temperature 14F is recorded atop Haleakal
02 Jan 1966
First Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
02 Jan 1968
Cecil Day-Lewis is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Elizabeth II
02 Jan 1978
Rhino Records releases their 1st album Wildmania by Larry WIld Man Fischer
02 Jan 1979
British punk rocker Sid Vicious trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins in New York City
02 Jan 1982
The Epic in Miami played in 85F heat sees the San Diego Chargers defeat the Miami Dolphins 41-38 in overtime in the AFC Divisional Playoff setting numerous playoff scoring records
02 Jan 1986
NHL New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy scores his 499th and 500th career goals in the final 222 to lift the New York to a 7-5 victory over the Boston Bruins 11th player in NHL history to score 500 goals
02 Jan 1988
Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons in Pennsylvania
02 Jan 1992
George H.W. Bush is the first US President to address the Australian Parliament
02 Jan 1994
Battles between the army and rebellious Indigenous people in southern Mexico kill 57
02 Jan 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus Ohio on WBZX 99.7 FM
02 Jan 1998
Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine
02 Jan 2006
Sago Mine Disaster 12 miners are killed in a coal mine explosion in West Virginia [1]
02 Jan 2023
Two helicopters collide in midair on the Gold Coast Australia killing four and injuring eight [1]