Today is Thursday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2012. There 333 days left in the year.
1653 ― New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York City)
1848 ― first shipload of Chinese arrive in San Francisco
1863 ― Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time
1922 ― James Joyce's ``Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
1935 ― Lie detector first used in court (Portage, Ind.)
1940 ― Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)
1942 ― Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
1944 ― Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory
1974 ― Barbra Streisand's first No. 1 hit, ``The Way We Were"
1986 ― Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India