Today in History
2 January
Tsar Ivan the Terrible
Renato Guttuso - Contadini al lavoro, 1951
Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Genova
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| 1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names | ||
| 1492 Spain recaptured the southern city of Granada from the Moors, consolidating the monarchy under Ferdinand of Aragon | |
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| 1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins | ||
| 1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville | ||
| 1602 Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish | ||
| 1602 Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale | ||
| 1642 Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born | ||
| 1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva" | ||
| 1727 James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born | ||
| 1732 Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born | ||
| 1757 Clive of India recaptured Calcutta after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who used the "Black Hole" to imprison British captives. | ||
| 1776 1st revolutionary flag displayed | ||
| 1776 Austria ends interregation torture | ||
| 1788 Georgia became the fourth U.S. state to be admitted to the Union. | Tsar Ivan the Terrible |
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| 1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi' fan tutti" premieres, Vienna | ||
| 1800 Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave | ||
| 1811 U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering became the first senator to be censured when he revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the United States. | ||
| 1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" | ||
| 1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston | ||
| 1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) was born | ||
| 1839 French pioneering photographer Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the moon. | ||
| 1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia | ||
| 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends |
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| 1870 Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins | ||
| 1871 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 | ||
| 1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die | ||
| 1880 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1896 Leander Starr Jameson surrendered and was captured by the Boers after his attempted raid on Johannesburg. | ||
| 1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black | ||
| 1905 In the Russian-Japanese War, the Russians surrendered to the Japanese after the battle of Port Arthur. | ||
| 1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa | ||
| 1912 Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion) was born | ||
| 1914 Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven | ||
| 1917 Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank | ||
| 1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland | ||
| 1919 Lithuania gains independence | ||
| 1920 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) | ||
| 1920 Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy) was born | ||
| 1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens | ||
| 1922 Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano was born | ||
| 1923 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995) | ||
| 1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, | ||
| 1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) |
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| 1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls | ||
| 1933 Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th) | ||
| 1933 US troops leave Nicaragua | ||
| 1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace | ||
| 1942 German troops in Bardia surrender | ||
| 1942 In World War Two, the Japanese captured the Philippines capital of Manila and the nearby air base at Cavite. | ||
| 1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) | ||
| 1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg | ||
| 1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion | Renato Guttuso - Contadini al lavoro, 1951 |
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| 1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali | ||
| 1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees | ||
| 1959 The first lunar space shot, the unmanned Luna I, was launched by the Soviet Union. It passed to within 4,600 miles of the moon before moving on to a solar orbit. | ||
| 1960 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in N America (Halifax) | ||
| 1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years | ||
| 1964 Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan | ||
| 1964 Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana | ||
| 1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters | ||
| 1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day | ||
| 1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion | ||
| 1968 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant | ||
| 1971 A barrier collapsed at Ibrox Park football ground at the end of the Rangers vs. Celtic soccer match in Glasgow, Scotland, killing 66 people. | ||
| 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars | ||
| 1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres | ||
| 1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) | ||
| 1980 Britain's first national steel strike since 1926 began. It was not settled until April 2. | ||
| 1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100 | ||
| 1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor | ||
| 1985 Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III | ||
| 1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn | ||
| 1994 More than 70 people were killed and at least 670 were injured after two days of factional battles in the Afghan capital Kabul. | ||
| 1994 Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 | ||
| 1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed | ||
| 1995 The most distant galaxy yet discovered was found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii. It was estimated to be 15 billion light years away. | ||
| 1995 Former Somali president Mohamed Siad Barre died in exile. He seized power in a 1969 coup and was toppled in January 1991 by forces loyal to faction leader Mohamed Farah Aideed. | ||
| 1996 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appointed Kamal Ganzouri to be his new prime minister after the resignation of Atef Sedki who had been his prime minister for nine years. | ||
| 1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine | ||
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