On this day: January 2

January 2: Perihelion of the Earth (22:49 UTC, 2016); Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Roman Catholic Church)

Comet Wild 2

• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1920 – Under the leadership of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Department of Justice agents launched a series of raids against radical leftists and anarchists across 30 cities in 23 states.
• 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong won its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
• 1975 – Lalit Narayan Mishra, the Indian Minister of Railways, was assassinated in a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar.
• 2004 – The Stardust space probe flew by the comet Wild 2 (pictured) and collected particle samples from its coma, which were later returned to Earth.

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