TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Today is Tuesday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2010. There are 332 days left in the year.

1848 _ First shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco

1852 _ First British public men's toilet opens (Fleet Street, London)

1863 _ Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time

1906 _ Pope encyclical against separation of church and state

1922 _ James Joyce's ``Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)

1932 _ Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Ga.)

1942 _ Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans

1954 _ President Eisenhower reports detonation of first H-bomb (done in 1952)

1959 _ Buddy Holly's last performance

1986 _ Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India