SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Today is Saturday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2013. There are 332 days left in the year.

1653 ― New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York City)

1852 ― Alexandre Dumas Jr.'s "Le Dame aux Camellias" premieres in Paris

1863 ― Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time

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

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

1933 ― Two days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament

1944 ― Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory

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

1986 ― Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India

1990 ― South Africa's President Frederik Willem de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes African National Congress and 60 other political organizations