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
- 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
- 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
- 1833 –Re-establishment of British rule on the Falkland Islands.
- 1871 –Amadeus I becomes King of Spain
- 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
- 1941 –World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
- 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
- 1949 –Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico
- 1955 –Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated
- 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
- 1992 –Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.
- 2001 –Sila María Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico
- 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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