Birthdates Which Occur on January 2:
1642 Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey)
1647 Nathaniel Bacon leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)
1699 Osman III sultan (Turkey)
1727 James Wolfe commanded British Army (captured Qu‚bec)
1728 Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium
1752 Philip Freneau poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
1777 Christian D Rauch German sculptor
1803 Gugliemo Libri [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector
1807 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki composer
1809 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns composer
1822 Rudolph J E Clausius Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1830 Henry Kingsley English/Australian writer
1831 Justin Winston historian/librarian (Harvard)
1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr Brig General (Union volunteers)
1837 Mili A Balakirev Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
1842 Amy G C A Bonet-Maury French reformed theologist
1846 Sandor Erkel composer
1857 Frederick Opper cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
1860 William C Mills museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
1861 Helen Herron Taft 1st lady (1909-12)
1863 Lucia Zarate became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
1873 Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
1879 Johannes L "Jan" Walch Dutch literary (Grimaces)
and Pieter Tesch Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
1880 Louis Breguet French aviation pioneer
1884 Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau], French writer (l'Epithalame)
1885 Johannes Ringers Dutch water engineer (dikes)
1889 Tito Schipa Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
and Walter Baldwin Ohio, actor (Gay Amigo)
1892 Lura Anson Nebraska, entertainer
1894 Robert Nathan NYC, poet, novelist (Portrait of Jennie)
1895 Count Folke Bernadotte Sweden, statesman (Red Cross, UN)
1896 Dziga Vertiv [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director (Sjagai, Soviet!)
and Ernst-Lothar von Knorr composer
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer
19-- John Bedford-Lloyd New Haven Ct, actor (Peter-Hometown)
and Ron Hale actor (Ryan's Hope)
and Teddi Austin XXX actress (Night Shade, Spring Break)
1901 Rex O'Malley London England, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight)
and Robert Marshall founder (Wilderness Society)
1903 Anton van Duinkerken [Willem JMA Asselbergs], literary
1904 James Melton Moultrie Ga, opera tenor (Ford Festival)
and Sally Rand Hickory County MO, stripper (fan dance)
1905 Michael Kemp Tippett English composer/conductor (Child of our Time)
1907 Salvador Ley composer
1908 Ben Grauer NYC, newscaster (Big Story)
and Janis Kepitis composer
1912 Andre Ameller composer
and Anna Lee Ightham England, actress (Scruples, Lila-General Hospital)
and Barbara Pentland Winnipeg Canada, composer
and Renato Guttuso Italian painter (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion)
1913 Gardner Read Evanston, Illinois, composer
and L‚on P Teisserenc de Bort France, meteorologist
1915 John Hope Franklin historian
1920 Duke of Devonshire English large landowner/art collector
and Isaac Asimov Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1922 Jason Evers NYC, actor (Wrangler, Channing)
and Nico Schuyt composer
and Renata Tebaldi lyric soprano
1925 Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich composer
and William J Crowe Jr Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff
1927 Gino Marchetti NFL defensive end (Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts)
and Richard Belmont Ray (Rep-D-Ga) [or Feb 2]
1928 Dan Rostenkowski (Rep-D-Il, -94)
and Harry Hyams English immovable goods owner (Center Point)
and Howard Caine Nashville TN, actor (Brushfire)
and Tiberiu Olah composer
and Vaughn Beals Cambridge Mass, CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle)
1930 Julius LaRosa Bkln NY, singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air)
1931 Toshiki Kaifu premier of Japan (1989-91)
1932 Dabney Coleman Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
1936 Roger Miller Ft Worth Tx, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me)
1939 Jim Bakker televangelist (PTL Club)/rapist (Jessica Hahn)
1944 Peter Eotvos composer
1947 Aleksandr Tikhonova USSR, biathalon relay (Oly-gold-1968, 72, 76, 80)
and Calvin Hill
and Lanny Bassham US, rifle-3 position (Olympic-gold-1976)
1949 Chick Churchill Wales, keyboardist (Ten Years After-I'm Going Home)
and Christopher Durang Montclair NJ, playwright/actor (Sister Mary)
1951 Nadia Cassini [Gianna Lou Muller], Woodstock NY, model (Oui)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Grit Va, country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)
and Wendy Phillips Bkln NY, actress (Stacey-Executive Suite)
1954 Ludmila Borozna USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1957 Joanna Pacula Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress (Gorky Park, Kiss)
1964 David Cone pitcher (NY Mets, Tor Blue Jays, NY Yankees)
1965 Diane Lane NYC, actress (Streets of Fire, Lady Beware, Lonesome Dove)
1966 Tia Carrere [Althea Janairo], Honolulu, actress (Wayne's World)
1968 Cuba Gooding Jr actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)
1969 Christy Turlington SF Calif, model (Calvin Klein Eternity)
1973 Chris Woodruff Knoxville Tenn, tennis star (1993 NCAA Division I)
1978 Devin Doherty actor (Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing)
Deaths Which Occured January 2:
1726 Domenico Zipoli composer, dies at 37
1740 Johann Georg Weichenberger composer, dies at 63
1763 John Casteret earl Granville English premier, dies at 72
1789 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee composer, dies at 68
1790 Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer) German rococobeeldhouwer, dies
1801 Johann C Lavater Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59
1803 Ignaz Franz von Beecke composer, dies at 69
1861 Frederik Willem IV king Prussia (1840-61)/emp of Germ (1849-61), dies
1863 Roger Weightman Hanson Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 35
1892 George B Airy English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
1904 James Longstreet Confederate general, dies at 82
1908 Dom Joƒo G da Cƒmara Portuguese journalist/playwright, dies at 55
1913 L‚on P Teisserenc de Bort French meteorologist (stratosphere), dies
1915 Karl Goldmark Austria-Hungarian composer (King of Saba), dies at 84
1917 Edward B Tylor English Anthropologist, dies at 84
1921 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg German chancellor/PM of Prussia, dies
1923 Sam Carter black resident of Rosewood Florida, lynched by KKK
1929 Erich Wichman(n) fascist painter/sculptor, dies
1937 Ross Alexander actor (Capt Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29
1941 Mischa Levitzki composer, dies at 42
1950 Emil Jannings actor (The Way of All Flesh), dies at 65
1955 Jos‚ Antonio Remon president of Panam (1952-55), assassinated
1960 Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur actor/director (Haagsche Comedy), dies at 60
Chris van Abkoude author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79
Fausto Coppi Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40
Friedrich Adler Austria soc-dem, murdered PM Strgkh, dies at 80
1963 Dick Powell actor/director, dies at 58
Jack Carson actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52
1965 Staf Gustaf Frans Nees composer, dies at 63
1968 Sanoesi Pane Indonesian writer, dies
1969 George Renevant actor, dies after long illness at 74
1970 Piotr Rytel composer, dies at 85
1974 Tex Ritter country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67
1977 Erroll Garner jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53
1980 Larry Williams rocker, dies at 44
1981 David Lynch singer (Platters-My Prayer), dies at 51
1983 Bernard George Stevens composer, dies at 66
Dick Emery actor, dies at 65
Harriet Parsons producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer
1986 Una Merkel US actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82
1990 Alan Hale Jr Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71
Belcampo [Herman P Sch”nfeld Wichers], lawyer/writer, dies
Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky composer, dies at 78
1991 Renato Rascel actor, dies of heart failure at 78
1992 Virginia Field actress, dies of cancer at 74
1994 Caesar Romero actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81
1995 Manuel Rivera Spanish painter/co-founder El Paso, dies at 67
Nancy Kelly US, actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73
Holidays Which Occur January 2:
Cuba Day of Victory
Georgia Constitution Ratification Day (1788)
Haiti Ancestor/Hero's Day
Japan Kakizome
Japan Shigoto Hajime-Begin Work Day [beginning of the work year]
Spain Granada Day (1492)
Switzerland Berchtold's Tag, founding of Berne
US Betsy Ross Day (1776)
Religious Observances on January 2:
Christian Commemoration of St Macarius the Younger, martyr
ORC Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (most years)
RC Adalhard, abbot of Corbie
RC Odilo, 5th abbot of Cluny
Unification Church Day of Victory of Love
390 RC Memorial of St Basil the Great, Gregory Nazianzen, bishops
1833 ORTH St Seraphim of Sarov
1836 RC Commemoration of St Gaspar del Bufalo, Italian priest
1872 Lutheran Commemoration of Johann Loehe, pastor
Things to Remember for January 2:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
3 Days Quadrantid meteor shower, radiant in Bo”tes
18 Days Astrological sign: Capricorn
Earth at perihelion (Earth closest to the Sun) (most years)
[Ancient Rome] Caput Nonarum (a d iv Non Jan)
Highlights in History Which Occur January 2:
69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor
533 John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
1492 Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day)
1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins
1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville
1602 Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish
and Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale
1678 Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva"
1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
1776 1st revolutionary flag displayed
and Austria ends interregation torture
1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution
1790 Mozart's opera "Cos fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
1800 Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave
1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"
1818 Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto)
1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens
1842 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn
1843 Wagner's opera "Der fliegende Holl„nder" premieres, Dresden
1861 SC seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charlestown Harbor
Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
1863 Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends
1870 Building Brooklyn Bridge begins
1871 King Amadeus I of Spain's 25th jubilee
1879 British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
and Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education
and Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill
1881 Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust
1885 Gen Wolseley receives last distress signal of Gen Gordon in Khartoum
1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer
and Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny
1893 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued
and World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago [or 0501]
1896 Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr Jamesons troops)
1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine
and Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1908 Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1909 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
1910 1st junior high schools in US open in Berkeley, Calif
1914 Philips installs research dept in Eindhoven
1916 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #814 Tauris
1917 Royal Bank of Canada takes over Qu‚bec Bank
1918 Montr‚al Wanderers' Westmount hockey arena burns down
1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
and Lithuania gains independence
1920 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1921 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh
and DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1923 Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood Fla,
8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)
1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls
1932 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri
1933 Bruins beat Rangers in NY 13-3
and Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
and US troops leave Nicaragua
1934 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
1935 Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby
1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo
1942 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace
and German troops in Bardia surrender
and Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
1944 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)
1945 Allied air raid on Neurenberg
and George Bush (pres 1989) & Barbara Pierce wed
and Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955
and Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion
1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali
1948 WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, NY (PBS) begins
1949 KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in NYC
1953 NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak
1954 Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in NYC
1955 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS)
1956 French parliamentary election (leftward swing)
1958 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY
1959 1st spacecraft to orbit the Sun launched (USSR)
and Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees
and USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
1960 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in N America (Halifax)
and John F Kennedy announces run for US Presidency
and John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
and Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres
and Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president
1961 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16
and Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14øF recorded atop Haleakale
1962 Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
1964 Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
and Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana
1965 NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath
and Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
and Voter registration drive, led by Martin Luther King Jr, starts
1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
and Green Bay Packers beat Cleve Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game
1968 Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
and KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy
and Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black," premieres in NYC
1970 Dutch musical "Hair", premieres in Amsterdam
and US population is 293,200,000; Black population: 22,600,000 (11.1%)
1972 Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game
and Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
and Miami Dolphins beat Balt Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game
1974 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon
and Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1975 US Dept of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
1978 Blent Ecevit forms govt in Turkey
and Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania"
1979 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver
and Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65)
1982 Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins
and SD Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT
1983 "Annie" closes on Broadway (after 2,377 performances)
and Broadway Musical "Annie," closes after 2,377 performances
and Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
and Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes
1984 Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
and Riot in Tunis kills over 100
and Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor
1985 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
and Egyptian Pres Mubarak reappoints Koptisch pope Shenuda III
and Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score
and Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions
1986 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
and NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal
1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
and Troops of Chad Pres Habr‚ conquer Fada oasis
1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn
and Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement
1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
and UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
1990 Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
and Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
1994 Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres.
Your Special Reminders for January 2:
1876 68øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1918 2øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 2nd day of year with 363 remaining (Numerology = 3)
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