About January 2
January 2, 2023 is the 2nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 20 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 2
- 533 –Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy
- 1492 –Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders
- 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
- 1791 –Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War
- 1818 –The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded
- 1833 –Re-establishment of British rule on the Falkland Islands.
- 1860 –The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France
- 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
- 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
- 1949 –Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
- 1955 –Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated
- 1971 –The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match
- 1992 –Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.
- 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
- 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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