Today is Monday, January 2, the second day of 2011. There are 364 days left in the year.
1492 ― Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
1776 ― Austria ends interrogation torture
1839 ― First photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)
1903 ― President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down a post office for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1920 ― 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
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
1995 ― Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)