Today in History - History - January 2nd

2013Ray Lewis announces he will retire at the end of the playoffs

1936Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours

1913Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa.

1988Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement

1933Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test

1986NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal

1939Bradman scores 107 SA v Victoria, his 4th consecutive century

1570Tsar Ivan the Terrible's march to Novgorod begins

1965Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters

18391st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

1920Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)

1727James Wolfe, Westerham, Kent, England, British Army officer, defeated the French in Canada and captured Quebec

1961Gabrielle Carteris, Phoenix Az, actress (Andrea-Beverly Hills 90210)

1969Tommy Morrison, American boxer, (d. 2013)

1845Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (31) weds Mary Moffat

1890Physicist J. J. Thomson (33) weds Rose Elisabeth Paget

1993Supermodel Kim Alexis (32) weds ice hockey player Ron Duguay (35)

2010Actor Vince Vaughn (39) weds realtor Kyla Weber in Lake Forest, Illinois

1977Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53

1904James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82