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January 2 - Today in History

  1. 2008 Oil reaches $100 per barrel for the first time
  2. 1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine
  3. 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
  4. 1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
  5. 1995 Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21
  6. 1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)
  7. 1994 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont New York City after 40 performances
  8. 1994 "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 266 perf
  9. 1994 Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
  10. 1993 "Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 55 performances
  11. 1992 Test debut of Shane Warne, vs. India at Sydney
  12. 1991 Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
  13. 1990 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
  14. 1990 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
  15. 1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
  16. 1989 UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
  17. 1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn
  18. 1988 Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-U.S. free trade agreement
  19. 1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
  20. 1987 Troops of Chad President Habre conquer Fada oasis
  21. 1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
  22. 1986 New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal
  23. 1985 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
  24. 1985 Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts
  25. 1985 Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III
  26. 1985 Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
  27. 1985 Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
  28. 1984 Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century
  29. 1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
  30. 1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100
  31. 1984 Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor
  32. 1983 "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 2,377 performances
  33. 1983 "Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 767 performances
  34. 1983 Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
  35. 1983 Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"
  36. 1983 Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
  37. 1982 "Camelot" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 48 performances
  38. 1982 70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64)
  39. 1982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
  40. 1982 San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT
  41. 1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65)
  42. 1981 Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI vs. Pakistan
  43. 1980 68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62)
  44. 1979 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
  45. 1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)
  46. 1979 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins
  47. 1978 Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
  48. 1978 Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
  49. 1977 Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing
  50. 1975 U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
  51. 1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
  52. 1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
  53. 1972 "Rothschilds" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 505 performances
  54. 1972 Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game
  55. 1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
  56. 1972 Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game
  57. 1971 A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
  58. 1970 Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam
  59. 1970 U.S. population is 203,302,031
  60. 1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances
  61. 1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
  62. 1969 Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," premieres in New York City
  63. 1968 "Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances
  64. 1968 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
  65. 1968 KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting
  66. 1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
  67. 1966 Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
  68. 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
  69. 1965 New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
  70. 1965 Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
  71. 1964 Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
  72. 1964 Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana
  73. 1962 Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
  74. 1961 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16
  75. 1961 Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14 degrees F recorded atop Haleakale
  76. 1960 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax)
  77. 1960 John F. Kennedy announces run for U.S. Presidency
  78. 1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
  79. 1960 Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres
  80. 1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president
  81. 1959 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
  82. 1959 U.S.S.R. launches Mechta, Luna 1, for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
  83. 1958 Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
  84. 1957 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge
  85. 1956 Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
  86. 1955 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
  87. 1954 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City
  88. 1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
  89. 1952 "Pal Joey" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 542 performances
  90. 1951 Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in New York City
  91. 1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting
  92. 1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins
  93. 1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
  94. 1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg
  95. 1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
  96. 1945 Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
  97. 1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
  98. 1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
  99. 1942 German troops in Bardia surrender
  100. 1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
  101. 1939 Bradman scores 107 SA vs. Victoria, his 4th consecutive century
  102. 1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
  103. 1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Missouri
  104. 1936 Bradman scores 357 for SA vs. Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours
  105. 1935 Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh baby
  106. 1934 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
  107. 1934 Bradman scores 253 NSW vs. Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes
  108. 1933 Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test
  109. 1933 Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
  110. 1933 U.S. troops leave Nicaragua
  111. 1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
  112. 1929 U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
  113. 1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
  114. 1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh
  115. 1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
  116. 1920 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
  117. 1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
  118. 1919 Lithuania gains independence
  119. 1918 Dodgers trade Casey Stengel and Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes and Mamaux
  120. 1918 NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
  121. 1917 Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank
  122. 1914 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven
  123. 1913 National Woman's Party forms
  124. 1911 Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000
  125. 1910 1st junior high schools in U.S. opens (Berkeley California)
  126. 1909 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
  127. 1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
  128. 1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
  129. 1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
  130. 1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
  131. 1900 E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal)
  132. 1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
  133. 1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr. Jamesons troops)
  134. 1893 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued
  135. 1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
  136. 1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
  137. 1885 General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
  138. 1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
  139. 1881 Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
  140. 1879 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
  141. 1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
  142. 1879 Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
  143. 1879 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
  144. 1871 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25
  145. 1870 Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins
  146. 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
  147. 1861 South Carolina seizes inactive Ft. Johnson in Charleston Harbor
  148. 1861 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
  149. 1843 Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" premieres, Dresden
  150. 1842 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
  151. 1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
  152. 1832 1st Curling club in U.S. (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
  153. 1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
  154. 1818 Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
  155. 1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
  156. 1811 U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.)
  157. 1800 Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave
  158. 1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
  159. 1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify U.S. constitution
  160. 1776 1st revolutionary flag displayed
  161. 1776 Austria ends interregation torture
  162. 1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
  163. 1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"
  164. 1602 Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish
  165. 1602 Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale
  166. 1585 Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
  167. 1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
  168. 1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
  169. 1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
  170. 533 John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
  171. 69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
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