January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (364 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION DAY
1492 ― Muhammad XII (Boabdil), last Nasird ruler of the Moorish fortress the Alhambra (in Granada, Spain), surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs.
1776 ― The first U.S. Revolutionary War flag is displayed.
1840 ― The first photo (daguerreotype) of the Moon is made by American John William Draper.
1842 ― The first U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.
1882 ― Because of anti-monopoly laws, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is organized as a trust. Standard Oil would eventually be broken into seven different oil companies, each of which would become larger than the original company.
1885 ― English Field Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley receives a final distress signal from Major-General Charles George "Chinese" Gordon in Khartoum, Sudan during the Islamic Mahdist siege.
1921 ―The first religious service radio broadcast in the U.S., KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA.
1929 ― The U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls on the Niagara River.
1934 ― The first state liquor stores open in Pennsylvania.
1935 ― The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann begins for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son.
1941 ― World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the British war effort.
1945 ― The University of Kentucky begins a 130 home basketball game win streak that eventually ends in 1955.
1947 ― Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali.
1959 ― The USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for first lunar fly-by and first solar orbit.
1960 ― John Reynolds sets the age of the solar system at 4,950,000,000 years. The accuracy has been improved only slightly, to 4,600,000,000 years, since.
1970 ― The population of the U.S. is 293,200,000; the black population is 22,600,000 (11.1%); 318,000,000 and 41,700,000 (13.1%) today.
1974 ― A nation-wide 55 MPH speed limit is imposed by President Richard Nixon to conserve gasoline due to the Arab oil embargo.
1988 ― An Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons into the Monogahela River near Jefferson Hills, PA.
1995 ― At that time the most distant galaxy yet discovered (estimated 15 billion light-years away) was found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii . Today, the most distant confirmed galaxy has been determine to be 13 billion light-years away from the CANDELS survey (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extra-galactic Legacy Survey) using the Hubble Space Telescope.
1996 ― The United States deploys troops in Northern Bosnia with the intention of maintaining order and peace between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims.
2004 ― Space satellite Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that were returned to Earth two years later.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FICTION DAY
1492 ― Muhammad XII (Boabdil), last Nasird ruler of the Moorish fortress the Alhambra (in Granada, Spain), surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs.
1776 ― The first U.S. Revolutionary War flag is displayed.
1840 ― The first photo (daguerreotype) of the Moon is made by American John William Draper.
1842 ― The first U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.
1882 ― Because of anti-monopoly laws, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is organized as a trust. Standard Oil would eventually be broken into seven different oil companies, each of which would become larger than the original company.
1885 ― English Field Marshall Garnet Joseph Wolseley receives a final distress signal from Major-General Charles George "Chinese" Gordon in Khartoum, Sudan during the Islamic Mahdist siege.
1903 ― President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down the post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept his appointed postmistress because she was black.
1906 ― Willis Carrier receives a U.S. patent for the world's first air conditioner.
1920 ― Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, U.S. Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists.
1906 ― Willis Carrier receives a U.S. patent for the world's first air conditioner.
1920 ― Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, U.S. Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists.
1929 ― The U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls on the Niagara River.
1934 ― The first state liquor stores open in Pennsylvania.
1935 ― The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann begins for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son.
1941 ― World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the British war effort.
1945 ― The University of Kentucky begins a 130 home basketball game win streak that eventually ends in 1955.
1947 ― Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali.
1959 ― The USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for first lunar fly-by and first solar orbit.
1960 ― John Reynolds sets the age of the solar system at 4,950,000,000 years. The accuracy has been improved only slightly, to 4,600,000,000 years, since.
1970 ― The population of the U.S. is 293,200,000; the black population is 22,600,000 (11.1%); 318,000,000 and 41,700,000 (13.1%) today.
1974 ― A nation-wide 55 MPH speed limit is imposed by President Richard Nixon to conserve gasoline due to the Arab oil embargo.
1988 ― An Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons into the Monogahela River near Jefferson Hills, PA.
1995 ― At that time the most distant galaxy yet discovered (estimated 15 billion light-years away) was found by scientists using the Keck telescope in Hawaii . Today, the most distant confirmed galaxy has been determine to be 13 billion light-years away from the CANDELS survey (Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extra-galactic Legacy Survey) using the Hubble Space Telescope.
1996 ― The United States deploys troops in Northern Bosnia with the intention of maintaining order and peace between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims.
2004 ― Space satellite Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that were returned to Earth two years later.
2014 ― Raul Castro, brother of and successor to Communist rebel President Fidel Castro, gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and warns of "neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking" entering the country.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
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