Today in History - History - January 2nd

1979Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins

1988Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement

1570Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins

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

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

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

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

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

1986NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal

18391st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

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

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

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

1961Gabrielle Carteris, Phoenix Az, actress (Andrea-Beverly Hills 90210)

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

1937Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac (34) weds Margit Wigner

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

1845Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (31) weds Mary Moffat

1904James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82

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