TUESDAY, Jan. 2, 2024

1893-First U.S. commemoratives & first U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued

1929-U.S. & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls

1942-Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines

1944-First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

1947-Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali

1959-Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees

1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for President

1960-John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years

1965-Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters

1966-First Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion

1968-Christiaan Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant

1975-U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species

1978-Bülent Ecevit forms government in Turkey

1984-Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's first black mayor

1985-Egyptian President Mubarak re-appoints Coptic pope Shenuda III

1988-Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-U.S. free trade agreement

1995-Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)