1: On January 2, 1788, the U.S. state of Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution had been signed by 39 of the 55 delegates to the constitutional convention on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Some refused to sign because the original Constitution lacked the bill of rights, which was later added as the first ten amendments to the Constitution, and at least one delegate refused to sign because the original Constitution didn’t end slavery, which was done 78 years later when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted on December 18, 1865. The current U.S. Constitution is comprised of 7 articles and 27 amendments.
2: Russian-born U.S. author and biochemist, Isaac Asimov, was born on January 2, 1920. He died aged 72 on April 6, 1992.
3: Ronald Reagan of the Republican Party was sworn in as the governor of California on January 2, 1967. He was in office until 1975. He later served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He came to prominence initially as an actor in Hollywood; he had acted in at least fifty films before going into politics. Born in the state of Illinois on February 6, 1911, he died aged 93 on June 5, 2004.
4: In one of the largest arrests during what’s known as the Palmer’s Raid in U.S. history, on January 2, 1920, between 3,000 and 10,000 people were arrested across the United States and accused of being foreign anarchists, communists, or radical leftists.
The raids were led by the then-attorney general of the United States, A. Mitchell Palmer. It was at the end of the era called the Red Scar in American history, when the U.S. government arrested, investigated, and prosecuted hundreds of thousands of people, including American citizens, for being communists, leftists, or anarchists.
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