January 2 is the second day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar.
1492
Muhammad XI,
the leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to King
Ferdinand II and Queen
Isabella I.
1788
Georgia was admitted to
the Union as the 4th state.
1839
Louis Jacques
Mandé Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon.
1905
The Russo-Japanese
war ended.
1923
The African-American town of Rosewood, Fla., was burned
by a white mob.
1935
The Bruno R.
Hauptmann trial began for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh
baby.
1959
The first spacecraft to fly by the
Moon and also to orbit the Sun, Mechta (Luna 1) was launched by the USSR.
1993
–
Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka
Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
1994
Rudolph
Giuliani is inaugurated as New York City's mayor
· 2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners,
while leaving one miner in critical condition
