January 2nd in History

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January 2nd in History

1635: Cardinal Richelieu creates the Academie Francaise
1839: The first ever photographs of the Moon are taken
1919: Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1938: Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded
1947: Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1995: Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (estimated5 billion light years away)

January 2nd birthdays

1920: Issac Asimov, Biochemist and science fiction writer
1968: Cuba Gooding Jr, American actor