2nd January in history

 Here’s a collection of historical events that occurred on January 2nd throughout history.

1. January 2nd is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

2. On January 2, 366, the Alemanni crossed the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.

3. In 533, Mercurius became Pope John II, succeeding Boniface II.

4. The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates the Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles on January 2nd.

5. On January 2, 1492, the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, conquered the city of Granada, the last stronghold of Al-Andalus.

6. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on the third Monday of January, but King's actual birthday is January 15.

7. On January 2, 1776, the British suffered a significant defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.

8. On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

9. During the War of 1812, American forces, under General William Henry Harrison, defeated Native American warriors allied with the British at the Battle of Frenchtown, Michigan Territory (now Monroe, Michigan) on January 2, 1813.

10. On January 2, 1842, the United States recognized independence for the Republic of Texas.

11. On January 2, 1860, the discovery of the planet Vulcan was announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.

12. On January 2, 1871, Amadeus I became King of Spain.

13. On January 2, 1905, Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.

14. On January 2, 1905, the Russian Revolution of 1905 began in Saint Petersburg.

15. On January 2, 1911, the first successful flying boat, the Curtiss Model D, made its maiden flight in the United States.

16. On January 2, 1917, the Royal Bank of Canada took over Quebec Bank.

17. On January 2, 1919, the first natural gas explosion in Cleveland left 20 dead.

18. On January 2, 1920, the first assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

19. On January 2, 1922, the first artificial human heart was implanted in a patient at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas.

20. On January 2, 1928, the Scottish Nationalist Party was formed.

21. On January 2, 1935, the Bruno Hauptmann murder trial began.

22. On January 2, 1939, Spanish General Francisco Franco captured Barcelona.

23. On January 2, 1942, the Japanese captured Manila.

24. On January 2, 1949, the Dutch East Indies became the Republic of Indonesia.

25. On January 2, 1953, the first commercial jet airliner, the BOAC De Havilland Comet, made its maiden flight in the United Kingdom.

26. On January 2, 1955, Panamanian President Jose Antonio Remon was assassinated.

27. On January 2, 1956, the Hungarian Revolution was suppressed by the Soviet Union.

28. On January 2, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for President of the United States.

29. On January 2, 1962, Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

30. On January 2, 1963, the Beatles released their first single, "Love Me Do," in the United Kingdom.

31. On January 2, 1967, Ronald Reagan was sworn in as Governor of California.

32. On January 2, 1969, the British firm ICI was fined a record £100,000 for price-fixing.

33. On January 2, 1974, President Richard Nixon signed a bill requiring states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 mph in order to conserve gasoline during an oil crisis.

34. On January 2, 1975, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness.

35. On January 2, 1976, the Gale of January 1976 began, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, resulting in at least 82 deaths and over £1 billion in damage in the United Kingdom.

36. On January 2, 1977, India hosted a historic test match against the West Indies in Calcutta.

37. On January 2, 1978, the US Supreme Court upheld a California law providing family-leave for pregnant women.

38. On January 2, 1979, the USSR launched the Soyuz T-1 mission.

39. On January 2, 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued a $1 billion credit to bail out Chrysler.

40. On January 2, 1981, Argentina passed the one billion dollar mark in foreign debt.

41. On January 2, 1982, 47 miners died in a fire at the Creswell Colliery in Nottinghamshire.

42. On January 2, 1983, a federal jury in London found Pan American World Airways guilty of willful negligence in the 1973 crash of a Boeing 707 in French Guiana that killed 13 people, and the jury awarded $44.4 million in damages to the families of the victims.

43. On January 2, 1984, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited the Yasukuni Shrine, where World War II war criminals are honored, sparking outrage in neighboring nations.

44. On January 2, 1985, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Santiago, Chile, killing at least 177 people and leaving nearly a million homeless.

45. On January 2, 1986, Algerian President Chadli Bendjedid resigned after four days of rioting by students and government workers demanding wage increases.

46. On January 2, 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation intended to end the practice of giving away federal lands to private developers for recreational purposes.

47. On January 2, 1988, US President Ronald Reagan signed the Child Protection Act, which allows federal agents to investigate cases of child pornography and exploitation of children.

48. On January 2, 1989, Japan was struck by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake, killing 27 people and injuring more than 1,200.

49. On January 2, 1990, American Special Forces rescued an American businessman who had been held hostage in Colombia for eight months.

50. On January 2, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced the formal end of the Soviet Union and transferred power to Boris Yeltsin, the president of Russia.

51. On January 2, 1992, the first European train service through the Channel Tunnel took place.

52. On January 2, 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two independent republics, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

53. On January 2, 1994, thousands of Russian troops left the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where they had been sent to suppress independence movements.

54. On January 2, 1995, the World Health Organization reported that the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS worldwide had passed the one million mark.

55. On January 2, 1996, Bosnian Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire agreement, effectively ending a four-year war.

56. On January 2, 1997, Ghanaian troops forced Nigerian soldiers to abandon peacekeeping duties in the West African nation of Liberia.

57. On January 2, 1998, Russia's new envoy to the United Nations warned that Moscow might take military action if the Security Council did not act quickly to end the war between rebels and government troops in Zaire.

58. On January 2, 1999, former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

59. On January 2, 2000, the American Psychiatric Association reported that the number of people in the United States diagnosed with depression had increased by 15 percent in the past decade.

60. On January 2, 2001, Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians during a raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

61. On January 2, 2002, the government of Russia officially ended a decade-long ban on abortions, allowing women to terminate pregnancies at any stage of development.

62. On January 2, 2003, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he was determined to defeat Palestinian militants, even if it meant seizing control of all Palestinian territories.

63. On January 2, 2004, the New England Patriots became the first NFL team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins to complete a regular season with an undefeated record.

64. On January 2, 2005, a powerful earthquake struck Southeast Asia, killing more than 150,000 people and leaving millions homeless.

65. On January 2, 2006, Israeli forces killed a top Hamas militant in the West Bank, hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in Tel Aviv.

66. On January 2, 2007, President Bush announced a plan to send more than 20,000 additional troops to Iraq to help stabilize the country.

67. On January 2, 2008, Illinois Senator Barack Obama won the Iowa Democratic caucuses, the first test of the 2008 presidential race.

68. On January 2, 2009, Israeli forces launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, stepping up an offensive that had already killed hundreds of Palestinians.

69. On January 2, 2010, an off-duty British soldier was killed in a drive-by shooting in Northern Ireland, the first such killing in more than a decade.

70. On January 2, 2011, a bomb exploded outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 70 others.

71. On January 2, 2012, the United States and Afghanistan agreed on a plan to hand over the lead role for securing the country to Afghan forces by mid-2013.

72. On January 2, 2013, President Barack Obama signed into law a $9.7 billion bill to pay flood insurance claims from Superstorm Sandy, which struck the East Coast in October 2012.

73. On January 2, 2014, Colorado became the first state to allow the sale of recreational marijuana.

74. On January 2, 2015, gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people.

75. On January 2, 2016, Saudi Arabia executed Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, and 46 others convicted of terrorism charges.

76. On January 2, 2017, Turkey and Russia brokered a cease-fire between Syria's government and opposition rebels, marking a potential breakthrough in the six-year conflict.

77. On January 2, 2018, Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, reopened a telephone hotline with South Korea, restoring direct communication between the two countries.

78. On January 2, 2019, China's Chang'e-4 probe made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon.

79. On January 2, 2020, Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq.

80. On January 2, 2021, the United Kingdom became the first country to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.

81. On January 2, 2022, the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Buffalo Sabres 7-6 in the NHL's Heritage Classic at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario.


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