About January 2
January 2, 2024 is the 2nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Capricorn is the sun 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 39 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 2
- 366 –The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire
- 1492 –Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders
- 1788 –Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution
- 1818 –The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded
- 1871 –Amadeus I becomes King of Spain
- 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
- 1911 –A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill
- 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.
- 1935 –Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
- 1942 –The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring
- 1942 –World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by Japanese forces
- 1945 –World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces
- 1955 –Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated
- 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
- 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, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported
- 2001 –Sila María 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 are returned to Earth.
- 2006 –An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.
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