Today is Friday, January 2, the second day of 2009. There are 363 days left in the year.
1492 _ Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
1570 _ Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
1776 _ Austria ends interrogation torture
1919 _ Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1929 _ U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
1942 _ Japanese troops occupy Manila, Philippines
1947 _ Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1960 _ Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president
1965 _ Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
1995 _ Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)