January 2

On this Day in History
	1492: Granada reclaimed by Spain On this day in 1492, Granada, home of the Alhambra palace and the seat and final stronghold of the Moorish kingdom in Spain, was surrendered to the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II and Isabella I, ending the Reconquest.
Court of the Myrtles in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 13th-14th century.
Biography Of The Day
	1920 American biochemist and author Isaac Asimov, born in Russia this day in 1920, was a popularizer of scientific ideas and a prolific writer of science fiction, in which he created an ethical system for humans and robots.
Isaac Asimov, 1991.
More Events On This Day In History
	1950 German actor Emil Jannings died.
	1935 The widely publicized trial of Bruno Hauptmann began in New Jersey as he faced charges of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of famed American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh.
1905	The Russians surrendered Port Arthur (now Lüshun, China) to the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War.
	1904 American actress, fan dancer, and bubble dancer Sally Rand was born in Elkton, Missouri.
	1896 Dziga Vertov, a Soviet motion-picture director whose kino-glaz (“film-eye”) theory had international impact on the development of documentaries and cinema realism during the 1920s, was born.
1863	The Battle of Stones River came to an end during the American Civil War.
1861	Frederick William IV, king of Prussia from 1840, died at Sanssouci Palace on this day in 1861.