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Today in History: January 2

1492 Catholic forces under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella take the town of Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in Spain.

1839 Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph of the moon.

1903 President Theodore Roosevelt closes a post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to hire a Black postmistress.

1936 In Berlin, Nazi officials claim that their treatment of Jews is not the business of the League of Nations.

1966 American G.I.s move into the Mekong Delta for the first time.

1980 President Jimmy Carter asks the U.S. Senate to delay the arms treaty ratification in response to Soviet action in Afghanistan.

1981 British police arrest the "Yorkshire Ripper" serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe.

1999 A severe winter storm hits the Midwestern US; in Chicago temperatures plunge to -13 ºF and19 inches of snow fell; 68 deaths are blamed on the storm.

2022 Israel becomes one of the first countries to offer a fourth vaccine dose against COVID-19 amid an Omicron surge

2022 US epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci says focus should be on hospitalizations not case numbers amid huge surge in Omicron COVID-19 cases. Cases up 202%, hospitalizations up 30% in US.

Born on January 2

1920 Isaac Asimov, American writer of over 300 books including Foundation and I, Robot.


JOTD
Two women were playing golf

The first woman teed off and watched in horror as her ball headed directly toward a foursome of men playing the next hole.
The ball hit one of the men. He immediately clasped his hands together at his groin, fell to the ground and proceeded to roll around in agony.
The woman rushed down to the man, and immediately began to apologize. 'Please allow me to help. I'm a Physical Therapist and I know I could relieve your pain if you'd allow me,' she told him.
'Oh, no, I'll be all right. I'll be fine in a few minutes,' the man replied. He was in obvious agony, lying in the fetal position, still clasping his hands at his groin.
At her persistence, however, he finally allowed her to help. She gently took his hands away and laid them to the side, loosened his pants and put her hands slowly and carefully inside. She then administered a tender and skillful massage for several long moments and softly asked 'How does that feel'?
Feels wonderful, he replied; but I still think my thumb's broken!