Today is Wednesday, January 2, the second day of 2013. There are 363 days left in the year.
1776 ― Austria ends interrogation torture
1790 ― Mozart's opera ``Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
1882 ― Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1942 ― Japanese troops occupy Manila, Philippines
1947 ― Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengal
1958 ― Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concert, premieres in N.Y.
1959 ― Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
1965 ― Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters
1974 ― Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1995 ― Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated 15 billion light years away)