January 2 Events |
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| January 2nd, 2004 (January 02 2004) | Event | Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later. | |
| January 2nd, 2002 (January 02 2002) | Event | Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly. | |
| January 2nd, 2001 (January 02 2001) | Event | Sila Calderon becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico. | |
| January 2nd, 1999 (January 02 1999) | Event | 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, where temperatures plunge to -13øF (-25øC); 68 deaths are reported. | |
| January 2nd, 1993 (January 02 1993) | Event | Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans. | |
| January 2nd, 1974 (January 02 1974) | Event | 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. | |
| January 2nd, 1971 (January 02 1971) | Event | The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match. | |
| January 2nd, 1969 (January 02 1969) | Event | Luis Ferre becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico. | |
| January 2nd, 1969 (January 02 1969) | Event | Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. | |
| January 2nd, 1959 (January 02 1959) | Event | Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R. | |
| January 2nd, 1957 (January 02 1957) | Event | The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and Los Angeles Oil Exchange merge. | |
| January 2nd, 1955 (January 02 1955) | Event | Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. | |
| January 2nd, 1949 (January 02 1949) | Event | Luis Munoz Marin becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. | |
| January 2nd, 1946 (January 02 1946) | Event | Unable to resume rule after World War II, King Zog of Albania abdicates but retains his claim to the throne. | |
| January 2nd, 1942 (January 02 1942) | Event | 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. | |
| January 2nd, 1942 (January 02 1942) | Event | World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. | |
| January 2nd, 1942 (January 02 1942) | Event | The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey. | |
| January 2nd, 1941 (January 02 1941) | Event | World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. | |
| January 2nd, 1941 (January 02 1941) | Event | World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort. | |
| January 2nd, 1935 (January 02 1935) | Event | Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. | |
| January 2nd, 1929 (January 02 1929) | Event | Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls. | |
| January 2nd, 1923 (January 02 1923) | Event | United States Interior Secretary Albert Fall resigns over the Teapot Dome scandal. | |
| January 2nd, 1920 (January 02 1920) | Event | The Palmer Raids begin in the United States. | |
| January 2nd, 1917 (January 02 1917) | Event | The Royal Bank of Canada takes over the Quebec Bank. | |
| January 2nd, 1905 (January 02 1905) | Event | Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China. | |
| January 2nd, 1905 (January 02 1905) | Event | The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms. | |
| January 2nd, 1900 (January 02 1900) | Event | John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. | |
| January 2nd, 1893 (January 02 1893) | Event | Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers. | |
| January 2nd, 1882 (January 02 1882) | Event | John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust. | John D. Rockefeller Quotes |
| January 2nd, 1872 (January 02 1872) | Event | Brigham Young is arrested on charges of bigamy for having 25 wives. | |
| January 2nd, 1871 (January 02 1871) | Event | Amadeus I becomes King of Spain. | |
| January 2nd, 1860 (January 02 1860) | Event | The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Academie des Sciences in Paris. | |
| January 2nd, 1833 (January 02 1833) | Event | Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands. | |
| January 2nd, 1818 (January 02 1818) | Event | The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded. | |
| January 2nd, 1808 (January 02 1808) | Event | The U.S. Congress bans the importation of slaves. | |
| January 2nd, 1793 (January 02 1793) | Event | Russia and Prussia partition Poland. | |
| January 2nd, 1791 (January 02 1791) | Event | Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. | |
| January 2nd, 1788 (January 02 1788) | Event | Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. | |
| January 2nd, 1757 (January 02 1757) | Event | The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India. | |
| January 2nd, 1492 (January 02 1492) | Event | Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. | |
| January 2nd, 0533 (January 02 0533) | Event | Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy. | |
| January 2nd, 0366 (January 02 0366) | Event | The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire. | |
