January 2

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January 2 in recent years

2008 (Wednesday)

2007 (Tuesday)

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January 2 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" in leap years).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
- 4.1 Religious observances
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Events

366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
1492 - Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
1757 - The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
1788 - Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1791 - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
1808 - The U.S. Congress bans the importation of slaves.
1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
1871 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
1872 - Brigham Young is arrested on charges of bigamy for having 25 wives.
1879 - Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.
1882 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
1890 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
1893 - Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers.
1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
1905 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
1917 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over the Quebec Bank.
1920 - The Palmer Raids begin in the United States.
1921 - The first religious radio broadcasts from KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1923 - United States Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns over the Teapot Dome scandal.
1929 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
1941 - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
1941 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
1942 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1946 - Unable to resume rule after World War II, King Zog of Albania abdicates but retains his claim to the throne.
1949 - Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1955 - Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
1957 - The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and Los Angeles Oil Exchange merge.
1959 - Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
1969 - Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.
1969 - Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
1971 - The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match.
1974 - President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, D.C., becoming the first African American woman to lead a U.S. city of that size and importance.
1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.
1999 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
2001 - Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
2002 - Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
2004 - Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.

[edit] Births

1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
1699 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
1727 - James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
1822 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
1836 - Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
1837 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
1866 - Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian-born classical scholar (d. 1957)
1870 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
1873 - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
1877 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)
1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
1888 - Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (d. 1965)
1889 - Sir Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales 1932-39 (d. 1973)
1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 - Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1895 - Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
1896 - Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982)
1897 - Jim Londos, wrestler (d. 1975)
1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007)
1904 - Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
1905 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
1905 - Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Famous Modern Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
1918 - Willi Graf, member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1925 - William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (d. 2007)
1928 - Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
1928 - Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer, president of SGI
1930 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
1931 - Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese Prime Minister 1989-91
1933 - Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
1933 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
1935 - Neil Downing, Irish writer and musician
1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
1938 - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
1940 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist
1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
1942 - Dennis Hastert, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1942 - Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1944 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
1946 - Richard Cole, American tour manager
1947 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
1947 - Calvin Hill, American football player
1949 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
1950 - David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
1951 - Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian-born painter
1952 - Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Australian rocker, lead singer with Skyhooks (d. 2001)
1954 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
1955 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
1957 - Joanna Pacula, Polish actress
1958 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
1963 - David Cone, American baseball player
1963 - Edgar Martinez, American baseball player
1964 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
1965 - Greg Swindell, American baseball player
1967 - Francois Pienaar, South African Rugby Union player
1967 - Tia Carrere, American actress
1967 - Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
1968 - Evan Parke, Jamaican actor
1968 - Goichi Suda, CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture
1969 - Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
1969 - Patrick Huard, Quebec actor and comedian
1969 - Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
1969 - Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
1969 - Christy Turlington, American model
1970 - Royce Clayton, American baseball player
1970 - Robert Fertitta, American opera singer
1970 - Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer
1971 - Taye Diggs, American actor
1971 - Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
1971 - Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
1972 - Adam Elliot, Australian animator
1972 - Christopher Lennertz, American composer
1972 - Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
1973 - Lucy Davis, British actress
1973 - Will Kirby, American actor
1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
1975 - Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
1975 - Dax Shepard, American actor
1975 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
1976 - Cletidus Hunt, American football player
1976 - Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
1976 - Paz Vega, Spanish actress
1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi, triple jump & long jump athlete
1976 - Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
1977 - Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
1977 - Scott Proctor, American baseball player
1978 - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1979 - Suranne Jones, British actress
1980 - Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant
1980 - Bill Alldredge, American politician
1981 - Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1981 - Kirk Hinrich, basketball player
1981 - Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
1981 - Ryan Garko, American baseball player
1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
1984 - Colleen Taylor, American journalist
1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
1987 - Loui Batley, British actress

[edit] Deaths

1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
1861 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
1915 - Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
1920 - Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
1936 - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 - Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898)
1945 - Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
1946 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1950 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1884)
1951 - Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
1971 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
1983 - Dick Emery, English comedian (b. 1915)
1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
1986 - Bill Veeck, baseball executive (b. 1914)
1986 - Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (b. 1914)
1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
1995 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
1997 - Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (b. 1951)
1998 - Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
2001 - William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2003 - Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
2007 - Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
2007 - Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
2007 - David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
2008 - Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1923)
2008 - George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2008 - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)

[edit] Holidays and observances

Second day of New Year, New Zealand
Second day of New Year, Slovenia
Second day of New Year, Ukraine
Second day of new Year, Japan
Ancestry Day, Haiti
Second day of the Hogmanay Bank Holiday, Scotland

[edit] Religious observances

The eighth day of Christmas (and ninth night of same) in Western Christianity.
Basil the Great^[1]
Caspar del Bufalo^[1]
Gregory of Nazianzus^[1]
Macarius the Younger^[1]
Seraphim of Sarov^[1]
St. Berchtold's Day, Switzerland
January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

[edit] References

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.