About January 2
January 2, 2020 is the 2nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 23 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
- 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
- 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
- 1927 –Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.
- 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
- 1971 –The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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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