Today is Saturday, February 2, the 33rd day of 2013. There are 332 days left in the year.
1653 ― New Amsterdam becomes a city (later New York City)
1852 ― Alexandre Dumas Jr.'s "Le Dame aux Camellias" premieres in Paris
1863 ― Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for first time
1922 ― James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
1932 ― Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Ga.)
1933 ― Two days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament
1944 ― Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory
1954 ― President Eisenhower reports detonation of first H-bomb (done in 1952)
1986 ― Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
1990 ― South Africa's President Frederik Willem de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes African National Congress and 60 other political organizations