What are the important events that happened on January 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 2 is the 2nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 20, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,929,600 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘digon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 27 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,395 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 2 Historical Events
- 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
- 1788 –Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution
- 1860 –The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France
- 1900 –John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
- 1920 –The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
- 1927 –Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.
- 1935 –Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
- 1959 –Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union
- 1971 –The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match
- 2002 –Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
Who were born on January 2?
- 1822 –Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
- 1836 –Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
- 1857 –Martha Carey Thomas, American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College (d. 1935)
- 1893 –Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
- 1913 –Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
- 1942 –Ray Moore, Radio 2 DJ (d. 1989)
- 1960 –Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
- 1974 –Jason de Vos, Canadian footballer
- 1976 –Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
- 1977 –Scott Proctor, American baseball player
Who died on January 2?
- 1685 –Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
- 1913 –Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
- 1963 –Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1990 –Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician and author (b. 1910)
- 2001 –William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
- 2004 –Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
- 2007 –Dan Shaver, American racecar driver (b. 1950)
- 2007 –Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
- 2008 –Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2011 –Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
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