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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
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). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
AD 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse
to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and
proclaim Vitellius as
emperor.[1] ·
366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading
the Roman Empire.[2] ·
533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to
adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.[3] ·
1492 – Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada,
the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.[4] ·
1680 – Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his
bodyguards execute the rebel
leader Trunajaya.[5] a month after the rebel
leader was captured by the Dutch East India
Company. ·
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.[6] ·
1788 – Georgia becomes
the fourth state to ratify the United States
Constitution.[7] ·
1791 – Big Bottom massacre in
the Ohio Country,
North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.[8] ·
1818 – The
British Institution
of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six
engineers; Thomas Telford would
later become its first president.[9] ·
1833 – Captain James
Onslow, in the Clio, arrives at Port Egmont to reassert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.[10] ·
1865 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends
as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.[11] ·
1900 – American
statesman and diplomat John Hay announces
the Open Door Policy to
promote trade with China.[12] ·
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.[13] ·
1941 – World War II: German
bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.[14] ·
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—the Duquesne Spy Ring.[15] ·
1942 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces,
enabling them to control the Philippines.[16] ·
1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín is
inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of
Puerto Rico.[17] ·
1954 – India
establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.[18] ·
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.[19] ·
1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach
the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit
the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.[20] ·
1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory,
at the Battle of Ap Bac.[21] ·
1967 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President
of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of
California.[22] ·
1971 – The
second Ibrox disaster kills
66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer)
match.[23] ·
1974 – United States
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.[24] ·
1975 – At the opening
of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of
Railways.[25] ·
1975 – The Federal Rules
of Evidence are approved by the United States
Congress.[26] ·
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.[27] ·
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.[28] ·
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.[29] ·
1991 – Sharon Pratt Kelly becomes
the first African American woman
mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor
of the District of Columbia.[30] ·
1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War:
The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100
civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.[31] ·
2004 – Stardust successfully
flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned
to Earth.[32] Births[edit]
·
869 – Yōzei, Japanese emperor (d. 949)[33] ·
1462 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1522)[34] ·
1509 – Henry of Stolberg,
German nobleman (d. 1572)[35] ·
1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)[36] ·
1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)[37] ·
1699 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1757)[38] ·
1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)[39] ·
1727 – James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)[40] ·
1732 – František Brixi,
Czech organist and composer (d. 1771)[41] ·
1777 – Christian Daniel
Rauch, German sculptor and educator (d. 1857)[42] ·
1803 – Guglielmo
Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic
(d. 1869)[43] ·
1822 – Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and
mathematician (d. 1888)[44] ·
1827 – Pyotr
Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d.
1914)[45] ·
1833 – Frederick A. Johnson,
American banker and politician (d. 1893)[46] ·
1836 – Mendele Mocher
Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)[47] ·
1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d.
1885)[48] ·
1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer
(d. 1910)[49] ·
1857 – M. Carey Thomas, American educator and
activist (d. 1935)[50] ·
1860 – Dugald Campbell
Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)[51] ·
1860 – William Corless
Mills, American historian and curator (d. 1928)[52] ·
1866 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-English
playwright and scholar (d. 1957)[53] ·
1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and
playwright (d. 1938)[54] ·
1870 – Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and
businessman (d. 1929)[55] ·
1873 – Antonie Pannekoek,
Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)[56] ·
1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux,
French nun and saint (d. 1897)[57] ·
1878 – Mannathu
Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (d.
1970)[58] ·
1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli historian
and politician, 4th Israeli
Minister of Education (d. 1973)[59] ·
1885 – Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)[60] ·
1886 – Apsley
Cherry-Garrard, English explorer and author (d. 1959)[61] ·
1889 – Bertram
Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1973)[62] ·
1891 – Giovanni Michelucci,
Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze
Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)[63] ·
1892 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d.
1962)[64] ·
1892 – Artur Rodziński,
Polish-American conductor (d. 1958)[65] ·
1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)[66] ·
1896 – Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and
screenwriter (d. 1954)[67] ·
1896 – Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and
engineer (d. 1982)[68] ·
1897 – Theodore Plucknett,
English legal historian (d. 1965)[69] ·
1900 – Una Ledingham, British physician, known for
research on diabetes
in pregnancy (d. 1965)[70] ·
1901 – Bob
Marshall, American activist, co-founded The
Wilderness Society (d. 1939)[71] ·
1902 – Dan Keating, Irish Republican
Army volunteer (d. 2007)[72] ·
1903 – Kane Tanaka, Japanese
supercentenarian, oldest
verified living person[73] ·
1904 – Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist
(d. 1981)[74] ·
1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and
screenwriter (d. 1991)[75] ·
1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer and
conductor (d. 1998)[76] ·
1909 – Barry Goldwater, American politician,
businessman, and author (d. 1998)[77] ·
1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and
author (d. 2009)[78] ·
1913 – Anna Lee, English-American actress (d. 2004)[79] ·
1913 – Juanita Jackson
Mitchell, American lawyer and activist (d. 1992)[80] ·
1917 – Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and
dancer (d. 2003)[81] ·
1918 – Willi Graf, German physician and activist
(d. 1943)[82] ·
1919 – Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979)[83] ·
1920(probable) – Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor
of biochemistry (d. 1992)[84] ·
1921 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
2007)[85] ·
1926 – Gino Marchetti, American football player (d.
2019)[86] ·
1928 – Dan Rostenkowski, American politician (d.
2010)[87] ·
1929 – Tellervo Koivisto,
Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland[88] ·
1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and
politician, 76th Prime Minister of
Japan[89] ·
1934 – John Hollowbread, English footballer,
goalkeeper (d. 2007)[90] ·
1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter,
musician, and actor (d. 1992)[91] ·
1938 – David Bailey, English photographer and
painter[92] ·
1938 – Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and
electrical engineer[93] ·
1938 – Robert Smithson, American sculptor and
photographer (d. 1973)[94] ·
1940 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist[95] ·
1940 – Saud
bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and
politician, Saudi
Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015) ·
1942 – Dennis Hastert, American educator and
politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ·
1942 – Thomas Hammarberg,
Swedish lawyer and diplomat[96] ·
1943 – Janet Akyüz Mattei,
Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)[97] ·
1944 – Charlie Davis,
Trinidadian cricketer[98] ·
1944 – Norodom Ranariddh,
Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Cambodia[99] ·
1944 – Péter Eötvös,
Hungarian composer and conductor[100] ·
1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player[101] ·
1947 – David Shapiro,
American poet, historian, and critic[102] ·
1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author[103] ·
1949 – Christopher Durang,
American playwright and screenwriter[104] ·
1949 – Iris Marion Young,
American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)[105] ·
1952 – Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and
politician, 9th Prime Minister
of Latvia[106] ·
1954 – Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and
politician[107] ·
1954 – Évelyne Trouillot,
Haitian playwright and author[108] ·
1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer and politician[109] ·
1961 – Craig James,
American football player and sportscaster[110] ·
1961 – Gabrielle Carteris,
American actress[111] ·
1961 – Paula Hamilton, English model [112] ·
1961 – Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician[113] ·
1963 – David Cone, American baseball player and
sportscaster[114] ·
1963 – Edgar Martínez,
American baseball player[115] ·
1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (d. 2019)[116] ·
1965 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player[117] ·
1967 – Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician;
20th Mayor of
Reykjavik City[118] ·
1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress[119] ·
1968 – Anky van Grunsven,
Dutch dressage champion[120] ·
1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr.,
American actor and producer[121] ·
1969 – Christy Turlington,
American model[122] ·
1969 – István Bagyula,
Hungarian pole vaulter[123] ·
1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and
journalist[124] ·
1970 – Eric Whitacre, American composer and
conductor[125] ·
1971 – Renée Elise
Goldsberry, American actress[126] ·
1971 – Taye Diggs, American actor and singer[127] ·
1972 – Mattias Norström,
Swedish ice hockey player and manager[128] ·
1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and
politician, 26th Premier of Nova
Scotia[129] ·
1972 – Shiraz Minwalla, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist[130] ·
1974 – Ludmila Formanová,
Czech runner[131] ·
1974 – Tomáš Řepka,
Czech footballer[132] ·
1975 – Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player[133] ·
1977 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player
and sportscaster[134] ·
1977 – Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player[135] ·
1979 – Jonathan Greening English
footballer[136] ·
1981 – Maxi Rodríguez,
Argentinian footballer[137] ·
1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress[138] ·
1987 – Robert Milsom, English footballer[139] ·
1988 – Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player[140] ·
1992 – Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league
player[141] ·
1992 – Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentinian footballer,
goalkeeper[142] ·
1998 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah,
Dutch footballer[143] Deaths[edit]
·
951 – Liu Chengyou, Emperor Yin of the Later Han[144] ·
951 – Su Fengji, Chinese official and chancellor[144] ·
1096 – William de St-Calais,
Bishop of Durham and
chief counsellor of William II of
England[145] ·
1169 – Bertrand de
Blanchefort, sixth Grand
Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)[146] ·
1184 – Theodora
Komnene, Duchess of Austria, daughter of Andronikos Komnenos[147] ·
1298 – Lodomer, Hungarian prelate, Archbishop of
Esztergom[148] ·
1470 – Heinrich Reuß
von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order[149] ·
1512 – Svante
Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460)[150] ·
1514 – William Smyth, English bishop and academic
(b. 1460)[151] ·
1543 – Francesco
Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)[152] ·
1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter and educator (b.
1494)[153] ·
1613 – Salima Sultan Begum,
Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539)[154] ·
1614 – Luisa Carvajal y
Mendoza, Spanish mystical poet and Catholic martyr (b. 1566)[155] ·
1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and
composer (b. 1688)[156] ·
1763 – John
Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)[157] ·
1850 – Manuel de la
Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (b. 1789)[158] ·
1861 – Frederick
William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)[159] ·
1892 – George Biddell Airy,
English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)[160] ·
1904 – James Longstreet, American general and
diplomat (b. 1821)[161] ·
1913 – Léon Teisserenc
de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)[162] ·
1915 – Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and
composer (b. 1830)[59] ·
1917 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)[163] ·
1920 – Paul Adam,
French author (b. 1862)[164] ·
1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould,
English author and scholar (b. 1834)[165] ·
1939 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)[166] ·
1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist
and composer (b. 1898)[167] ·
1946 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and
politician (b. 1870)[168] ·
1950 – James Dooley,
Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New
South Wales (b. 1877)[169] ·
1951 – William Campion, English colonel and
politician, 21st Governor of
Western Australia (b. 1870)[170] ·
1953 – Guccio Gucci, Italian businessman and
fashion designer, founder of Gucci (b. 1881)[171] ·
1960 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician,
17th Premier of Quebec (b.
1907)[172] ·
1963 – Dick Powell, American actor, singer, and
director (b. 1904)[173] ·
1963 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (b.
1910)[173] ·
1974 – Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)[174] ·
1975 – Siraj Sikder, Bangladesh revolutionary
leader (b. 1944)[175] ·
1977 – Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer
(b. 1921)[176] ·
1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)[177] ·
1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab,
Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief
Minister of Odisha (b. 1899)[178] ·
1989 – Safdar Hashmi, Indian actor, director, and
playwright (b. 1954)[179] ·
1990 – Alan Hale Jr., American film and television
actor (b. 1921)[180] ·
1990 – Evangelos Averoff,
Greek historian and politician, Greek
Minister for National Defence (b. 1910)[180] ·
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and
politician; 17th Governor of
Washington (b. 1914)[181] ·
1994 – Pierre-Paul
Schweitzer, French lawyer and businessman (b. 1915)[182] ·
1995 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)[183] ·
1995 – Siad Barre, Somalian general and politician;
3rd President
of Somalia (b. 1919)[184] ·
1999 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and
manager (b. 1910)[185] ·
1999 – Sebastian Haffner,
German journalist and author (b. 1907)[186] ·
2000 – Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)[187] ·
2000 – Patrick O'Brian, English author and
translator (b. 1914)[188] ·
2001 – William P. Rogers,
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 55th United
States Secretary of State (b. 1913)[189] ·
2005 – Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist and
physician (b. 1911)[190] ·
2006 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma,
Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1913)[191] ·
2006 – Osa Massen, Danish-American actress (b.
1914) [192] ·
2007 – A. Richard Newton,
Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951) ·
2007 – Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese, American historian and author (b. 1941)[193] ·
2007 – Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli
politician, Mayor of
Jerusalem (b. 1911)[194] ·
2008 – George MacDonald
Fraser, Scottish journalist and author (b. 1925)[195] ·
2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, American sailor, academic,
and politician, 40th Governor of
Wisconsin (b. 1926) ·
2009 – Inger Christensen,
Danish poet and author (b. 1935)[196] ·
2009 – Dnyaneshwar Agashe,
Indian businessman and cricketer (b. 1942) ·
2010 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author
(b. 1958)[197] ·
2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)[198] ·
2011 – Bali Ram Bhagat, Indian politician;
16th Governor
of Rajasthan (b. 1922)[199] ·
2011 – Pete Postlethwaite,
English actor (b. 1946)[200] ·
2012 – Gordon Hirabayashi,
American-Canadian sociologist and academic (b. 1918)[201] ·
2012 – Silvana Gallardo, American actress and
producer (b. 1953)[202] ·
2012 – William P. Carey, American businessman and
philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930)[203] ·
2013 – Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian,
author, and academic (b. 1920)[204] ·
2013 – Teresa Torańska,
Polish journalist and author (b. 1944)[205] ·
2014 – Bernard Glasser, American director and
producer (b. 1924)[206] ·
2014 – Elizabeth Jane
Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923)[207] ·
2015 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist
and academic (b. 1929)[208] ·
2016 – Ardhendu Bhushan
Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1924)[209] ·
2016 – Frances Cress
Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935)[210] ·
2016 – Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader
(b. 1959)[211] ·
2016 – Gisela Mota Ocampo,
mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Mexico, assassinated (b.
1982)[212] ·
2017 – Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (b. 1933)[213] ·
2017 – John Berger, English art critic, novelist
and painter (b. 1926)[214] ·
2018 – Guida Maria, Portuguese actress (b. 1950)[215] ·
2018 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader,
16th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1927)[216] ·
2019 – Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942)[217] ·
2019 – Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian
(b. 1942)[218] ·
2019 – Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer
(b. 1942)[219] |
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