January 2
January 2 this yearin various calendars Akan Kurufie Armenian 16 Arach 1475 Aztec Huei Tozoztli 12, 6 Xōchitl Babylonian 12 Kislimu, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Pasah, Menala, Wage, Paniron, Sukra of Krulut, Yama, Urungan, Pandita Bengali 18 Poush , BS 1432 Chinese Yang Fire Rat ・Ghost Mansion Wood Snake Year, Month 11 , Day 14Dongzhi , 3 days until Xiaohan )Common Era 2 January 2026 CE Coptic 24 Koiak , AM 1742Egyptian 21 Pachon , 2774 NE Ethiopian 24 Tākḫśāś, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade II, Tridi de Nivôse de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 2 January , AD 2026 Hebrew 13 Tevet , AM 5786 Hindu Mṛgaśiras ・Śukla Pauṣa , 1947 SE Caturdaśī , Śukla pakṣa of Pauṣa , 2082 VE Siddhārthin ・5126 KY ・1,872,577 Icelandic Föstudagur, 10 Mörsugur 2025 Islamic 13 Rajab , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W01-5 Japanese 14 Shimotsuki , Reiwa 8Tōji , 3 days until Shōkan ) Julian 20 December , AD 2025 (AM 7535)Julian day 2461043 Korean 14 Jwidal , 4358 DE Maya 13.0.13.4.0 18 Kankin , 6 Ahau Roman ante diem XIII Kalendas Ianuarias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 12 Dey , SH 1404 Tibetan 14 mgo, shing mo sbrul
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Day of the year
January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 363 days remain until the end of the year (364 in leap years ).
Events
1920 – The second Palmer Raid , ordered by the US Department of Justice , results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.1921 – World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové .1932 – The Young Brothers engaged in a gun battle resulting in the deaths of six law enforcement officers; the worst single killing of US police officers in the 20th century.1941 – World War II : The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales .1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history ; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring .1942 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines .
1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico .1954 – India establishes its highest civilian awards , the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan .1955 – Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera , his deputy, José Ramón Guizado , takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.1959 – Luna 1 Moon and to orbit the Sun , is launched by the Soviet Union .1963 – Vietnam War : The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac .1967 – Ronald Reagan , past movie actor and future President of the United States , is sworn in as Governor of California .1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers -Celtic association football match.1975 – At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India , fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra , Minister of Railways .1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.1978 – On the orders of the President of Pakistan , Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan ; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills .1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe , the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield , South Yorkshire .1988 – Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar , Turkey, killing 16 people.1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia .1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War : The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon .2004 – Stardust Comet Wild 2 , collecting samples that are returned to Earth .2022 – Massive nationwide protests and unrest break out in Kazakhstan over the sudden increase of liquefied petroleum gas prices, leading to 238 people dead and thousands injured by January 11.2024 – Two aircraft collide on a runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo , killing 5 and injuring 18.Births
1642 – Mehmed IV , Ottoman sultan (died 1693)1647 – Nathaniel Bacon , English-American rebel leader (died 1676)1699 – Osman III , Ottoman sultan (died 1757)1713 – Marie Dumesnil , French actress (died 1803)1727 – James Wolfe , English general (died 1759)1732 – František Brixi , Czech organist and composer (died 1771)1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch , German sculptor and educator (died 1857)1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja , Italian mathematician and academic (died 1869)1822 – Rudolf Clausius , Polish-German physicist and mathematician (died 1888)1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky , Russian geographer and statistician (died 1914)1833 – Frederick A. Johnson , American banker and politician (died 1893)1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim , Russian author (died 1917)1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (died 1885)
1837 – Mily Balakirev , Russian pianist and composer (died 1910)1857 – M. Carey Thomas , American educator and activist (died 1935)1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson , Canadian engineer (died 1931)1860 – William Corless Mills , American historian and curator (died 1928)
1866 – Gilbert Murray , Australian-English playwright and scholar (died 1957)1870 – Ernst Barlach , German sculptor and playwright (died 1938)1870 – Tex Rickard , American boxing promoter and businessman (died 1929)
1873 – Antonie Pannekoek , Dutch astronomer and theorist (died 1960)1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux , French nun and saint (died 1897)
1878 – Jaakko Mäki , Finnish politician (died 1938)1878 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai , Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (died 1970)
1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur , Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (died 1973)1885 – Gordon Flowerdew , Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1918)1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard , English explorer and author (died 1959)1889 – Bertram Stevens , Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (died 1973)1891 – Giovanni Michelucci , Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (died 1990)1892 – Seiichiro Kashio , Japanese tennis player (died 1962)1895 – Folke Bernadotte , Swedish diplomat (died 1948)1896 – Dziga Vertov , Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (died 1954)1896 – Lawrence Wackett , Australian commander and engineer (died 1982)
1897 – Theodore Plucknett , English legal historian (died 1965)1900 – Una Ledingham , British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (died 1965)1901 – Bob Marshall , American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (died 1939)1902 – Dan Keating , Irish Republican Army volunteer (died 2007)1903 – Kane Tanaka , Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history (died 2022)1904 – Walter Heitler , German physicist and chemist (died 1981)1905 – Michael Tippett , English composer and conductor (died 1998)1905 – Luigi Zampa , Italian director and screenwriter (died 1991)
1909 – Riccardo Cassin , Italian mountaineer and author (died 2009)1909 – Barry Goldwater , American politician, businessman, and author (died 1998)
1913 – Juanita Jackson Mitchell , American lawyer and activist (died 1992)1913 – Anna Lee , English-American actress (died 2004)
1914 – Jack Beaton , Australian rugby league player (died 1996)1917 – Vera Zorina , German-Norwegian actress and dancer (died 2003)1918 – Willi Graf , German physician and activist (died 1943)1919 – Ernest Bender , American Indologist (died 1996)1919 – Beatrice Hicks , American engineer (died 1979)
1920 (probable) – Isaac Asimov , American writer and professor of biochemistry (died 1992)1920 – Bob Feerick , American basketball player and coach (died 1976)
1921 – Glen Harmon , Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)1926 – Gino Marchetti , American football player (died 2019)1928 – Dan Rostenkowski , American politician (died 2010)1929 – Charles Beaumont , screenwriter and American author of speculative fiction (died 1967)1929 – Tellervo Koivisto , Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland
1931 – Toshiki Kaifu , Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)1933 – Richard Riley , American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Education 1934 – John Hollowbread , English footballer, goalkeeper (died 2007)1936 – Roger Miller , American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (died 1992)1938 – David Bailey , English photographer and painter1938 – Lynn Conway , American computer scientist and electrical engineer (died 2024)
1938 – Robert Smithson , American sculptor and photographer (died 1973)
1940 – Jim Bakker , American televangelist (died 2026)1940 – Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud , Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2015)
1942 – Thomas Hammarberg , Swedish lawyer and diplomat1942 – Dennis Hastert , American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 2026)
1943 – Janet Akyüz Mattei , Turkish-American astronomer (died 2004)1944 – Charlie Davis , Trinidadian cricketer1944 – Péter Eötvös , Hungarian composer and conductor (died 2024)
1944 – Norodom Ranariddh , Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 2021)
1944 – Mohamed Ali Yusuf , Somali politician (died 2024)
1947 – Jack Hanna , American zoologist and author1947 – Calvin Hill , American football player
1947 – David Shapiro , American poet, historian, and critic (died 2024)
1948 – Judith Miller , American journalist1948 – Deborah Watling , English actress (died 2017)
1949 – Christopher Durang , American playwright and screenwriter (died 2024)1949 – Iris Marion Young , American political scientist and academic (died 2006)
1952 – Indulis Emsis , Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia 1952 – Wendy Phillips , American actress
1954 – Henry Bonilla , American broadcaster and politician1954 – Évelyne Trouillot , Haitian playwright and author
1961 – Gabrielle Carteris , American actress1961 – Paula Hamilton , English model
1961 – Todd Haynes , American film director, screenwriter, and producer
1961 – Craig James , American football player and sportscaster
1961 – Robert Wexler , American lawyer and politician
1963 – David Cone , American baseball player and sportscaster1963 – Edgar Martínez , American baseball player
1964 – Chris Welp , German-American basketball player (died 2015)1964 – Pernell Whitaker , American boxer (died 2019)
1967 – Francois Pienaar , South African rugby player1967 – Tia Carrere , American actress
1967 – Jón Gnarr , Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavík
1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr. , American actor and producer1968 – Anky van Grunsven , Dutch dressage champion
1969 – István Bagyula , Hungarian pole vaulter1969 – William Fox-Pitt , English horse rider and journalist
1969 – Elena Gorolová , Czech Romani activist
1969 – Tommy Morrison , American boxer and actor (died 2013)
1969 – Róbert Švehla , Slovak ice hockey player
1969 – Christy Turlington , American model
1970 – Eric Whitacre , American composer and conductor1971 – Taye Diggs , American actor and singer1971 – Renée Elise Goldsberry , American actress
1972 – Rodney MacDonald , Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia 1972 – Shiraz Minwalla , Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
1972 – Mattias Norström , Swedish ice hockey player and manager
1974 – Ludmila Formanová , Czech runner1974 – Juha Lind , Finnish ice hockey player
1974 – Tomáš Řepka , Czech footballer
1975 – Chris Cheney , Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1975 – Dax Shepard , American actor
1975 – Jeff Suppan , American baseball player
1975 – Reuben Thorne , New Zealand rugby player
1976 – Paz Vega , Spanish actress1977 – Brian Boucher , American ice hockey player and sportscaster1977 – Stefan Koubek , Austrian tennis player
1979 – Jonathan Greening , English footballer1980 – Kemi Badenoch , English politician1980 – David Gyasi , British actor
1981 – Kirk Hinrich , American basketball player1981 – Maxi Rodríguez , Argentine footballer
1983 – Kate Bosworth , American actress1983 – Anthony Carrigan , American actor
1987 – Shelley Hennig , American actress and model1987 – Robert Milsom , English footballer
1987 – Loïc Rémy , French footballer
1988 – Germán Cano , Argentine footballer1988 – Luke Harangody , American basketball player
1988 – Damien Tussac , French-German rugby player
1991 – Ben Hardy , English actor1992 – Paulo Gazzaniga , Argentine footballer1992 – Alexey Marchenko , Russian ice hockey player
1992 – Teemu Pulkkinen , Finnish ice hockey player
1992 – Korbin Sims , Australian-Fijian rugby league player
1993 – Bryson Tiller , American singer and rapper1994 – Ronald Darby , American football player1996 – Jonah Bolden , Australian-American basketball player1997 – Arshad Nadeem , Pakistani javelin thrower1997 – Carlos Soler , Spanish footballer
1998 – Tfue , American online streamer1998 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah , Dutch footballer
1999 – Georgios Kalaitzakis , Greek basketball player1999 – Fernando Tatís Jr. , Dominican baseball player
1999 – Aaron Wiggins , American professional basketball player
2000 – Spencer Arrighetti , American baseball player2001 – Cole Caufield , American ice hockey player2001 – Luiz Henrique , Brazilian footballer
2003 – CJ Egan-Riley , English footballer2003 – Elye Wahi , French footballer
2006 – Claudio Echeverri , Argentine footballerDeaths
Pre-1600
951 – Liu Chengyou , Emperor Yin of the Later Han (born 931)951 – Su Fengji , Chinese official and chancellor
1096 – William de St-Calais , Bishop of Durham and chief counsellor of William II of England 1169 – Bertrand de Blanchefort , sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born c. 1109)1184 – Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria , daughter of Andronikos Komnenos 1298 – Lodomer , Hungarian prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom1470 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order1512 – Svante Nilsson , Swedish politician (born 1460)1514 – William Smyth , English bishop and academic (born 1460)1543 – Francesco Canova da Milano , Italian composer (born 1497)1557 – Pontormo , Italian painter and educator (born 1494)1598 – Morris Kyffin , Welsh soldier and writer (born c.1555)1904 – James Longstreet , American general and diplomat (born 1821)1913 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort , French meteorologist (born 1855)1915 – Karl Goldmark , Hungarian violinist and composer (born 1830)1917 – Léon Flameng , French cyclist (born 1877)1920 – Paul Adam , French author (born 1862)1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould , English author and scholar (born 1834)1939 – Roman Dmowski , Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1864)1941 – Mischa Levitzki , Russian-American pianist and composer (born 1898)1946 – Joe Darling , Australian cricketer and politician (born 1870)1950 – James Dooley , Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (born 1877)1951 – William Campion , English colonel and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (born 1870)1951 – Edith New , English militant suffragette (born 1877)
1953 – Guccio Gucci , Italian businessman and fashion designer, founder of Gucci (born 1881)1960 – Paul Sauvé , Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (born 1907)1963 – Dick Powell , American actor, singer, and director (born 1904)1963 – Jack Carson , Canadian-American actor (born 1910)
1974 – Tex Ritter , American actor (born 1905)1975 – Siraj Sikder , Bangladesh revolutionary leader (born 1944)1977 – Erroll Garner , American pianist and composer (born 1921)1986 – Una Merkel , American actress (born 1903)1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab , Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (born 1899)1989 – Safdar Hashmi , Indian actor, director, and playwright (born 1954)1990 – Alan Hale Jr. , American film and television actor (born 1921)1990 – Evangelos Averoff , Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence (born 1910)
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray , American biologist and politician; 17th Governor of Washington (born 1914)1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer , French lawyer and businessman (born 1915)
1995 – Nancy Kelly , American actress (born 1921)1995 – Siad Barre , Somali general and politician; 3rd President of Somalia (born 1919)
1999 – Rolf Liebermann , Swiss-French composer and manager (born 1910)1999 – Sebastian Haffner , German journalist and author (born 1907)
2000 – Elmo Zumwalt , American admiral (born 1920)2000 – Patrick O'Brian , English author and translator (born 1914)
2001 – William P. Rogers , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (born 1913)2005 – Maclyn McCarty , American geneticist and physician (born 1911)2006 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma , Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1913)2006 – Osa Massen , Danish-American actress (born 1914)
2007 – A. Richard Newton , Australian-American engineer and academic (born 1951)2007 – Elizabeth Fox-Genovese , American historian and author (born 1941)
2007 – Teddy Kollek , Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (born 1911)
2008 – George MacDonald Fraser , Scottish journalist and author (born 1925)2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus , American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (born 1926)
2009 – Inger Christensen , Danish poet and author (born 1935)2010 – David R. Ross , Scottish historian and author (born 1958)2011 – Anne Francis , American actress (born 1930)2011 – Bali Ram Bhagat , Indian politician; 16th Governor of Rajasthan (born 1922)
2011 – Mia Bustam , Indonesian painter, writer, and political prisoner (born 1920)
2011 – Pete Postlethwaite , English actor (born 1946)
2012 – William P. Carey , American businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (born 1930)2012 – Silvana Gallardo , American actress and producer (born 1953)
2012 – Gordon Hirabayashi , American-Canadian sociologist and academic (born 1918)
2013 – Gerda Lerner , Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (born 1920)2013 – Teresa Torańska , Polish journalist and author (born 1944)
2014 – Bernard Glasser , American director and producer (born 1924)2014 – Elizabeth Jane Howard , English author and screenwriter (born 1923)
2015 – Tihomir Novakov , Serbian-American physicist and academic (born 1929)2016 – Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan , Indian lawyer and politician (born 1924)2016 – Frances Cress Welsing , American psychiatrist and author (born 1935)
2016 – Nimr al-Nimr , Saudi Arabian religious leader (born 1959)
2016 – Gisela Mota Ocampo , mayor of Temixco , Morelos, Mexico, assassinated (born 1982)
2017 – Jean Vuarnet , French ski racer (born 1933)2017 – John Berger , English art critic, novelist and painter (born 1926)
2018 – Guida Maria , Portuguese actress (born 1950)2018 – Thomas S. Monson , American religious leader, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1927)
2019 – Daryl Dragon , American musician (born 1942)2019 – Bob Einstein , American actor and comedian (born 1942)
2019 – Julia Grant , British transgender activist (born 1954)
2019 – Gene Okerlund , American wrestling announcer (born 1942)
2025 – Ágnes Keleti , Hungarian Olympic gymnast (born 1921)2025 – Francesc Antich , Spanish politician (born 1958)