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January 2  Interesting Events

• 366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.

• 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.

• 1492 - Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.

• 1757 - The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.

• 1788 - Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

• 1791 - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.

• 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.

• 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.

• 1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

• 1871 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.

• 1872 - Brigham Young is arrested on charges of bigamy for having 25 wives.

• 1879 - Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.

• 1882 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.

• 1890 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.

• 1893 - Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers.

• 1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.

• 1905 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.

• 1917 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.

• 1920 - The Palmer Raids begin in the United States.

• 1921 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) .

• 1923 - U.S. Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns over the Teapot Dome scandal.

• 1929 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.

• 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.

• 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 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.

• 1942 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

• 1946 - Unable to resume rule after World War II, King Zog of Albania abdicates but retains his claim to the throne.

• 1949 - Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

• 1955 - Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.

• 1957 - The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and Los Angeles Oil Exchange merge.

• 1959 - The first artificial satellite to orbit the moon, Luna 1, is launched by the U.S.S.R.

• 1969 - Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.

• 1969 - Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

• 1971 - The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match.

• 1974 - Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

• 1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC, becoming the first African American woman to lead a US city of that size and importance.

• 1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.

• 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.

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