January 2: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

January 2nd marks the 2nd day of the Gregorian calendar year. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (or 364 days in case of leap years). People born on this day are under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Christy Turlington (1969), Kate Bosworth (1983) and Tia Carrere (1967).
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Holidays

New Zealand ? Statutory holiday, Second day of New Year.
United States - Bonza Bottler Day.
Slovenia ? Second day of New Year.
Scotland ? Second day of the Hogmanay Bank Holiday.
Catholicism and Anglicanism ? Feast day of St. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen.
The eighth day of Christmas (and ninth night of same) in Western Christianity.
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Events

2019 China-United States Trade War (2018-present). Apple, an American electronics company, warns that iPhone sales have been slowing and that the product is in low demand. This is attributed to trade tensions with China. According to Apple, its fiscal earnings are expected to drop for the first quarter due to disappointing holiday sales figures. The company also claims that it could lose $9B due the fall.
2018 Weinstein effect: Vice Media suspends its top executives while it investigates accusations against them.
2017 2017 Istanbul nightclub attack: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. It claims it is responding to Turkey's actions within Syria.
2016 Terrorism and violence in India: The 2016 Pathankot attack by terrorists: Four terrorists, allegedly members of Jaish-e-Mohammed attack an Indian Air Force Base in Pathankot (Punjab). Three security personnel and four terrorists were reported to have been killed.
2015 Somali Civil War: Seven soldiers are killed when Somali al-Shabaab militants attacked an army base near Baidoa.
2014 After days of violence, the Iraqi insurgency was overthrown by ISIS militants and armed tribesmen. 13 people are killed by a suicide bombing at Balad Ruz near Baqubah.
2013 Syrian civil war: A strike on a petrol station in Damascus killed and injured dozens. (Al Jazeera). The United Nations estimates that the conflict has killed more than 60,000 people.
2012 Arab Spring
2011 As a diplomatic response to President Bashir's decision last week to pull the Sudanese delegation out of Doha talks, international mediators suggest the establishment a regional authority for Darfur.
2010 A petition was signed by 25% of Iceland's voters asking President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson for his veto to a bill requiring the repayment of US$5 Billion to foreign savers who were left out in the collapse of Icelandic banks.
2009 The first European commercial flight since 1990, a charter plane from Sweden carrying 150 passengers lands at Baghdad International Airport.
2008 The US$100 per barrel price for crude oil is the highest ever recorded.
2007 Seven New Orleans police officers were charged with the shooting of Danziger Bridge in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina. They surrender to a New Orleans jail.
2006 A coal mine explosion in Sago, West Virginia kills 12 miners and leaves one in critical condition.
2005 Donations to global tsunami relief exceed USD 2 Billion (EUR 1.5 Billion).
2004 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is made up of seven foreign ministers representing seven countries in South Asia (Pakistan (India, Bangladesh), Sri Lanka (Nepal, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Maldives), who met in Islamabad to agree to establish the South Asian Free Trade Area. (SAFTA).
2003 To oversee the cease-fire between President Laurent Gbagbo's government and the main rebel group, the Patriotic Movement of the Ivory Coast, the first 49 of the 1,264 West African peacekeepers arrived in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire. September 19th 2002 saw the start of rebellion against Gbagbo's government. The Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS), agreed to send peacekeepers September 29. The EECOWAS peacekeepers join 2,500 French troops. Rebel groups occupy the
2002 The 2002 Tennessee quarter-dollar is now in circulation at the US Mint
2001 Sila Calderon is elected the first female Governor for Puerto Rico
2000 Kosheh massacres - 21 Coptic Christians were killed in a massacre at el-Kosheh village, Upper Egypt. It is located 450 kilometres from Cairo.
1999 A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (487 mm) at Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, temperatures plunge to -13 degrees F (-25 degrees C), and 68 deaths are reported.
1998 Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM
1995 Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21.
1994 Abe Lincoln in Illinois closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 performances
1993 Gypsy Passion closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances
1992 Test debut of Shane Warne, versus India at Sydney.
1991 Colorado wins its first AP national title poll.
1990 Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen
1989 UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game.
1988 Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1985 Australia beats West Indies by innings at Sydney Cricket Ground, Bob Holland 10 match wickets.
1984 Riot in Tunis kills over 100.
1983 Annie closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances
1982 Camelot closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances
1981 Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, West Indies versus Pakistan.
1980 US President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the U.S. ambassador to Moscow.
1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (versus West Indies).
1978 Rhino Records releases their first album "Wildmania".
1977 Bowie Kuhn suspends Atlanta Braves' owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing.
1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species.
1974 55 mph speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
1972 Rothschilds closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 505 performances
1971 The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match
1970 Dutch premiere of musical Hair in Amsterdam
1969 Fig Leaves Are Falling opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 performances
1968 Zizi closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
1966 Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game.
1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins a drive to register black voters in the USA.
1964 Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana.
1962 Nighttime version of Password with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
1961 Hawaii's all-time low temperature, 14 degrees F recorded atop Haleakale.
1960 John F Kennedy announces run for US Presidency
1959 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
1957 The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
1956 Poujadists / communists win French parliamentary elections
1955 1st Bob Cummings Show premieres on NBC
1954 Herman Wouks Caine Mutiny, premieres in New York City
1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
1952 Pal Joey opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 542 performances
1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins
1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali.
1945 Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
1944 WWII: Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa.
1942 The 28 nations at war with the Axis pledge no separate peace.
1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster is founded.
1936 First electron tube to enable night vision described, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
1935 Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
1934 First state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania.
1933 Bruins beat Rangers in New York 13-3
1932 Young gang shoots dead six police in Springfield, Missouri.
1931 South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
1929 US and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls.
1927 Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.
1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR).
1923 Ku Klux Klan makes surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood, Florida, USA; 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995).
1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
1920 10,000 US union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids).
1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland.
1914 Philips installs research department in Eindhoven.
1911 Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000.
1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China
1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Michigan, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.
1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris.
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