HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Monday, January 2, the 2nd day of 2017. There are 363 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill. 1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several US cities. 1935 – Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring. 1942 – World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by

Japanese forces. 1945 – World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German,

Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces. 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically

elected Governor of Puerto Rico. 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is

assassinated. 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major

victory in the Battle of Ap Bac. 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers

Celtic association football (soccer) match. 1975 – A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally

wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra. 1975 – Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and

dies while in police custody. 1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper”, is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. 1992 – Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia. 1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100

civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.