Notable Historical Events on January 2nd
January 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
69 |
Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
366 |
The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire. |
533 |
John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1235 |
Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names |
1492 |
Muhammad XII. (Boabdil) last Nasird ruler of Moorish fortress Alhambra surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs |
1570 |
Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins |
1585 |
Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville |
1602 |
Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English army at Kinsdale |
1678 |
Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva" |
1757 |
British troops occupy Calcutta India |
1776 |
1st revolutionary flag displayed |
1776 |
Austria ends interregation torture |
1788 |
Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution |
1791 |
Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. |
1800 |
Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave |
1811 |
US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US) |
1814 |
Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" |
1818 |
Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) |
1818 |
The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded. |
1831 |
Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston |
1832 |
1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens |
1833 |
Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands. |
1839 |
1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) |
1842 |
1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn |
1843 |
Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Holländer" premieres, Dresden |
1861 |
SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor |
1861 |
Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia |
1863 |
Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends |
1871 |
King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 |
1879 |
1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG |
1879 |
British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die |
1879 |
Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education |
1879 |
Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill |
1881 |
Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres |
1882 |
Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust |
1883 |
Battle of Boschberg takes place in South Africa as part of the Mapoch War |
1885 |
Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum |
1890 |
Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer |
1890 |
Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny |
1893 |
1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus) |
1893 |
World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501] |
1896 |
Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops) |
1900 |
E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal) |
1900 |
Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris |
1900 |
John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. |
1903 |
Pres T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black |
1905 |
Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine in San Jose, California |
1905 |
Japanese troops capture Port Arthur from Russia, a blow to national morale and causing further discontent within Russia |
1905 |
The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms. |
1906 |
W H Carrier recieves a US patent for the world's first air conditioner |
1908 |
Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa |
1909 |
1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50) |
1910 |
1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California) |
1911 |
Bkln Dodgers pres Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 |
1913 |
National Woman's Party forms |
1913 |
Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa. |
1914 |
Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven |
1917 |
Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank |
1918 |
Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes & Mamaux |
1918 |
NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down |
1919 |
Anti-British uprising in Ireland |
1919 |
Lithuania gains independence |
1920 |
10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) |
1921 |
1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh |
1921 |
DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens |
1923 |
Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995) |
1925 |
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) |
1929 |
US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls |
1932 |
Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri |
1933 |
Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test |
1933 |
Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3 |
1933 |
Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th) |
1933 |
US troops leave Nicaragua |
1934 |
1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania |
1934 |
Bradman scores 253 NSW v Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes |
1935 |
Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby |
1936 |
1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo |
1936 |
Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours |
1938 |
Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded |
1939 |
Bradman scores 107 SA v Victoria, his 4th consecutive century |
1941 |
World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. |
1941 |
World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort. |
1942 |
WWII: 28 nations at war with Axis powers, pledge no separate peace deals |
1942 |
German troops in Bardia surrender |
1942 |
Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines |
1942 |
The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey. |
1944 |
1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) |
1945 |
Allied air raid on Nuremberg |
1945 |
Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955 |
1945 |
Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion |
1947 |
Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali |
1948 |
WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, NY (PBS) begins |
1949 |
KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. |
1951 |
Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in NYC |
1952 |
"Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances |
1953 |
NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak |
1954 |
Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in NYC |
1955 |
1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS) |
1955 |
Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. |
1956 |
Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections |
1958 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY |
1959 |
USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit |
1960 |
1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) |
1960 |
John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years |
1960 |
Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres |
1960 |
Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency |
1961 |
1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 |
1961 |
Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14°F recorded atop Haleakale |
1962 |
Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS |
1964 |
Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
1965 |
Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
1965 |
Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters |
1965 |
NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath |
1965 |
Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day |
1966 |
1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion |
1966 |
Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game |
1968 |
"Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances |
1968 |
Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant |
1968 |
KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
"Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 perfs |
1969 |
"Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy |
1969 |
Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black," premieres in NYC |
1969 |
Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico. |
1969 |
Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. |
1970 |
Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam |
1970 |
US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%) |
1971 |
A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66 |
1972 |
"Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 perfs |
1972 |
Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game |
1972 |
Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars |
1972 |
Miami Dolphins beat Balt Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game |
1972 |
Anti-internment rally in Belfast, North Ireland |
1974 |
55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon |
1974 |
Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres |
1975 |
US Dept of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species |
1977 |
Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing |
1978 |
Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
1978 |
Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania" |
1979 |
30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver |
1979 |
Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) |
1979 |
Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins |
1980 |
68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62) |
1981 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65) |
1981 |
Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI v Pakistan |
1982 |
"Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1982 |
70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64) |
1982 |
Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins |
1982 |
San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT |
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 |
1983 |
"Annie" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances |
1983 |
"Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 767 perfs |
1983 |
Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ |
1983 |
Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury" |
1983 |
Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes |
1983 |
Several African National Congress(ANC) members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique. |
1984 |
Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century |
1984 |
Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship |
1984 |
Riot in Tunis kills over 100 |
1984 |
Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor |
1984 |
Major-General Muhammadu Buhari is declared Head of State in Nigeria, following a military coup. |
1985 |
90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter |
1985 |
Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts |
1985 |
Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III |
1985 |
Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score |
1985 |
Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions |
1986 |
191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
1986 |
NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal |
1987 |
Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ |
1987 |
Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis |
1988 |
Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn |
1988 |
Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement |
1988 |
Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambique's western border, killing at least 22 people and injuring 71. |
1989 |
Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship |
1989 |
UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game |
1990 |
Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15) |
1990 |
Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson) |
1991 |
Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll |
1992 |
Test debut of Shane Warne, v India at Sydney |
1993 |
"Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances |
1994 |
"Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 perfs |
1994 |
"Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 266 perf |
1994 |
Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 |
1995 |
Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed |
1995 |
Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21 |
1995 |
Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM |
1998 |
Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine |
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 -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported. |
2001 |
Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico. |
2002 |
Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly. |
2004 |
Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later. |
2013 |
Ray Lewis announces he will retire at the end of the playoffs |
2014 |
30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India |
2016 |
Saudi Arabia executes 47 people in 1 day after terror convictions |
2017 |
Chicago Ends Year With 762 Killings, the Most in 2 Decades |
2017 |
Russian diplomats expelled by Obama over hacking leave US |
2017 |
'Hollywood' sign changed to 'Hollyweed' in new year prank |
2017 |
Brazil gunman kills ex-wife, son and 10 others in Campinas |
2018 |
South Korea offers talks with defiant North ahead of Olympics |
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