This Day in History for 2nd January

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 185

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 - Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
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.
Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible 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
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 Perrine
1905 - Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1905 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
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
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 - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
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 Neurenberg
1945 - Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
1945 - Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi 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 - Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 222

1642 - Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)
1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)
1699 - Osman III, sultan (Turkey)
1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
1727 - James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec
1728 - Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium
1732 - Franz Xaver Brixi, composer
1752 - Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1777 - Christian D Rauch, German sculptor
1803 - Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector
1807 - Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer
1809 - Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer
1822 - Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1830 - Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer
1831 - Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)
1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1835 - Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
British Army Officer that Defeated the French in Canada James Wolfe (1727) 1836 - Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1837 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
1842 - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist
1846 - Sandor Erkel, composer
1857 - Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
1857 - Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)
1860 - William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
1861 - Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)
1863 - Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1866 - Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)
1870 - Ernst Barlach, writer
1873 - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
1873 - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
1877 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)
1879 - Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary (Grimaces)
1879 - Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
1880 - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer
1884 - Jacques Chardonne, [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
1885 - Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer (dikes)
1886 - Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York)
1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
1889 - Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
1889 - Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
1892 - Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer
1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1894 - Robert Nathan, NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
1896 - Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
1896 - Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer
1896 - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
1897 - Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
1899 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)
1901 - Rex O'Malley, London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
1901 - Robert Marshall, founder (Wilderness Society)
1901 - Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor (Daphne)
1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
1902 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
1903 - Anton van Duinkerken, [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
1904 - James Melton, Moultrie Ga, opera tenor (Ford Festival)
1904 - Sally Rand, Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
1905 - Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer/conductor (Child of our Time)
1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
1907 - Edward Albert Radice, economist
1907 - Salvador Ley, composer
1908 - Ben Grauer, NYC, newscaster (Big Story)
1908 - Janis Kepitis, composer
1909 - Rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)
1910 - Ulrich Becher, writer
1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
1912 - Andre Ameller, composer
1912 - Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital)
1912 - Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer
1912 - Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion)
1913 - Ernest Sidey, British air marshal
1913 - Gardner Read, Evanston, Illinois, composer
1913 - Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, US head (NAACP)
1913 - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, France, meteorologist
1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
1915 - John Hope Franklin, historian
1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
1918 - Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
1920 - Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1920 - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist
1920 - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker
1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1922 - Jason Evers, NYC, actor (Wrangler, Channing)
1922 - Nico Schuyt, composer
1922 - Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano
1925 - Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich, composer
1925 - William J Crowe Jr, Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff
1925 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008)
1927 - David Herbert, publisher
1927 - Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts)
1927 - Richard Belmont Ray, (Rep-D-Ga) [or Feb 2]
1928 - Dan Rostenkowski, (Rep-D-Il, -94)
1928 - Gerhard Amanshauser, writer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1815 - Leading Romantic Age poet Lord Byron (27) marries Anne Isabella Milbanke (22)by special licence, at Seaham Hall in County Durham.
2006 - NBC correspondent Chip Reid weds Nina Block in Hawaii
2010 - "American Idol" singer Jason Castro (22) weds Mandy Mayhall near Dallas, Texas
2011 - Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer (34) weds author Neil Gaiman (50) in Berkley, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 124

17 - Roman poet Ovid (in Latin: Publius Ovidius Naso), dies
1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
1726 - Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37
1740 - Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63
1763 - John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72
1780 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66
1789 - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68
1790 - Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies
1801 - Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59
1803 - Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69
1861 - Frederik Willem IV, King of Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65
1863 - Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate brig-gen, dies in Battle of Murfreesboro at 35
1892 - George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1904 - James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82
Confederate General James Longstreet (1904) 1913 - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, Fr meteorologist (stratosphere), dies at 57
1915 - Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84
1917 - Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84
1918 - Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42
1921 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Ger chancellor/PM (Prussia), dies at 64
1923 - Sam Carter, black resident of Rosewood Florida, lynched by KKK
1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
1929 - Erich Wichman[n], Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38
1936 - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
1937 - Ross Alexander, actor (Capt Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29
1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 - Mischa Levitzki, composer, dies at 42
1945 - Betram Home Ramsay, Engl adm/Cmdr Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61
1946 - Joe Darling, cricketer (Aussie captain 21 Tests, won 7 lost 4), dies
1950 - Emil Jannings, actor (The Way of All Flesh), dies at 65
1950 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1951 - Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1955 - Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama (1952-55), assassinated
1960 - Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60
1960 - Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79
1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40
1960 - Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered PM Storgkh, dies at 80
1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1961 - Bob Catterall, cricketer (1555 runs/24 Tests for S Afr 1922-31), dies
1963 - Dick Powell, actor/director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58
1963 - Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52
1965 - Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies
1969 - Georges Renevant, actor (Cornered), dies after long illness at 74
1970 - Piotr Rytel, composer, dies at 85
1971 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1974 - Tex Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67
1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 - Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53
1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
1980 - Larry Williams, rocker, dies at 44
1981 - David Lynch, singer (Platters-My Prayer), dies at 51
1983 - Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at 66
1983 - Dick Emery, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at 65
1983 - Harriet Parsons, producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer
1986 - Una Merkel, US actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82
1986 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1990 - Alan Hale Jr, Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71
1990 - Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78
1991 - Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78
1992 - Virginia Field, actress (Dream Girl), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Caesar Romero, actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86
1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Comm), dies at 79
1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81
1994 - Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at 81
1995 - Graham Sharp, ice skater, dies at 77
1995 - Manuel Rivera, Spanish painter/co-founder (El Paso), dies at 67
1995 - Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies
1995 - Nancy Kelly, US actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73
1995 - Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84
1996 - Sydney Thompson, rock Climber, dies at 81
1996 - Thornton Page, astrophysicist, dies at 82
1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
1997 - Jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75
1997 - Randy California, [Wolfe], rock guitarist, dies at 45
1998 - Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
2001 - William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2003 - Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
2006 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2007 - David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)