Today in History - History - January 2nd

1913Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa.

2013Ray Lewis announces he will retire at the end of the playoffs

1933Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test

1570Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins

1939Bradman scores 107 SA v Victoria, his 4th consecutive century

1965Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters

1988Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement

1934Bradman scores 253 NSW v Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes

1936Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours

197455 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon

1920Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)

1727James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec

1936Roger Miller, Fort Worth Tx, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)

1969Tommy Morrison, American boxer, (d. 2013)

1993Supermodel Kim Alexis (32) weds ice hockey player Ron Duguay (35)

1937Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner

2010Actor Vince Vaughn (39) weds realtor Kyla Weber in Lake Forest, Illinois

1890Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget

1977Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53

1904James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82