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8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the January 2 site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site

9. Contact - got a question about January 2, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.

10. Payment - ready to pay for your January 2, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.

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Events

• 366 - Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
• 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
• 1492 - Reconquista: Granada, the last Moors stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
• 1757 - The United Kingdom captures Kolkata, India.
• 1788 - Georgia (U.S. state) becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States United States Constitution.
• 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
• 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is formed.
• 1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan (hypothetical planet) is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
• 1871 - Amadeus I of Spain becomes King of Spain.
• 1872 - Brigham Young is arrested for polygamy due to having 25 wives.
• 1879 - Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.
• 1882 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil Trust company.
• 1890 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
• 1893 - Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers.
• 1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Lüshunkou, China.
• 1905 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
• 1917 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
• 1920 - The Palmer Raids begin in the United States.
• 1921 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) .
• 1923 - United States United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.
• 1929 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
• 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
• 1941 - World War II: Strategic Bombing During World War II severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
• 1941 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
• 1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
• 1942 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• 1946 - Unable to resume rule after World War II, Zog of Albania of Albania Abdication but retains his claim to the King of Albania.
• 1949 - Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1955 - Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
• 1957 - The Pacific Exchange and Pacific Exchange merge.
• 1959 - The first artificial satellite to orbit the moon, Luna 1, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
• 1969 - Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1969 - Operation Barrier Reef began in Mekong Delta, Vietnam
• 1971 - The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers F.C.-Celtic F.C. football game.
• 1974 - Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum United States speed limit to 55 mile per hour in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
• 1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC, becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance.
• 1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia and Herzegovina meet to discuss peace plans.
• 1998 - Russia begins to circulate new Russian rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
• 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, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
• 2001 - Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 2002 - Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
• 2004 - Stardust (spacecraft) successfully flies past Comet 81P/Wild, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.

Births

• 1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
• 1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
• 1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
• 1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
• 1727 - James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
• 1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
• 1822 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
• 1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
• 1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
• 1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
• 1837 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
• 1870 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1873 - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
• 1877 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)
• 1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
• 1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
• 1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
• 1897 - Jim Londos, wrestler (d. 1975)
• 1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republicanism (d. 2007)
• 1904 - Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
• 1905 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
• 1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
• 1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Famous Modern Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
• 1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
• 1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
• 1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1928 - Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
• 1928 - Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
• 1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer, president of Soka Gakkai International
• 1930 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
• 1933 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
• 1935 - Neil Downing, Irish writer and musician
• 1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
• 1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
• 1938 - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
• 1940 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist
• 1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
• 1942 - Dennis Hastert, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1942 - Hugh Shelton, 15th Joint Chiefs of Staff#Chairman
• 1944 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
• 1946 - Richard Cole, American tour manager
• 1947 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
• 1947 - Calvin Hill, American football player
• 1949 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
• 1950 - David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
• 1951 - Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian-born painter
• 1954 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
• 1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
• 1955 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
• 1957 - Joanna Pacula, Polish actress
• 1958 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
• 1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
• 1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
• 1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
• 1963 - David Cone, American baseball player
• 1963 - Edgar Martinez, American baseball player
• 1964 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
• 1965 - Greg Swindell, American baseball player
• 1967 - Tia Carrere, American actress
• 1967 - Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
• 1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
• 1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
• 1968 - Evan Parke, Jamaican actor
• 1968 - Goichi Suda, CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture
• 1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
• 1969 - Christy Turlington, American model
• 1969 - Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1969 - Patrick Huard, Quebec actor and comedian
• 1970 - Royce Clayton, American baseball player
• 1970 - Robert Fertitta, American opera singer
• 1970 - Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer
• 1971 - Taye Diggs, American actor
• 1971 - Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
• 1971 - Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
• 1972 - Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
• 1973 - Lucy Davis, British actress
• 1973 - Will Kirby, American actor
• 1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1975 - Douglas Robb (musician), American singer (Hoobastank)
• 1975 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
• 1975 - Sundra Oakley, American actress and Survivor (TV series) contestant
• 1976 - Cletidus Hunt, American football player
• 1976 - Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
• 1976 - Paz Vega, Spanish actress
• 1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi, triple jump & long jump athlete
• 1977 - Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
• 1977 - Scott Proctor, American baseball player
• 1978 - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
• 1979 - Suranne Jones, British actress
• 1980 - Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant
• 1980 - Bill Alldredge, American politician
• 1981 - Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
• 1981 - Kirk Hinrich, basketball player
• 1981 - Maximiliano Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
• 1981 - Ryan Garko, American baseball player
• 1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
• 1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
• 1984 - Colleen Taylor, American journalist
• 1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
• 1987 - Loui Batley, British actress

Deaths

• 1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
• 1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
• 1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
• 1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
• 1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
• 1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
• 1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
• 1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
• 1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
• 1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
• 1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
• 1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
• 1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
• 1946 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
• 1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
• 1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
• 1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1986 - Bill Veeck, baseball executive (b. 1914)
• 1986 - Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
• 1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
• 1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
• 1995 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
• 1997 - Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit (band)) (b. 1951)
• 2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
• 2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
• 2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
• 2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
• 2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
• 2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
• 2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
• 2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
• 2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
• 2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
• 2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
• 2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
• 2007 - David Perkins (geneticist), Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
• 2007 - A. Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
• 2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
• 2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
• 2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)

Holidays and observances

• Second day of New Year, New Zealand
• Second day of New Year, Slovenia
• Second day of New Year, Ukraine
• Second day of new Year, Japan
• Ancestry Day, Haiti
• Second day of the Hogmanay Bank Holiday, Scotland

Religious observances

• The eighth twelvetide (and ninth night of same) in Western Christianity.
• Basil the GreatAttwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
• Caspar del Bufalo
• Gregory of Nazianzus
• Macarius the Younger
• Seraphim of Sarov
• St. Berchtold's Day, Switzerland
• January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 366 - Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
• 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
• 1492 - Reconquista: Granada, the last Moors stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
• 1757 - The United Kingdom captures Kolkata, India.
• 1788 - Georgia (U.S. state) becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States United States Constitution.
• 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
• 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is formed.
• 1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan (hypothetical planet) is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
• 1871 - Amadeus I of Spain becomes King of Spain.
• 1872 - Brigham Young is arrested for polygamy due to having 25 wives.
• 1879 - Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.
• 1882 - John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil Trust company.
• 1890 - Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
• 1893 - Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces railroad chronometers.
• 1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Lüshunkou, China.
• 1905 - The American anarcho-syndicalist union known as the Industrial Workers of the World forms.
• 1917 - The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
• 1920 - The Palmer Raids begin in the United States.
• 1921 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) .
• 1923 - United States United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.
• 1929 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
• 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
• 1941 - World War II: Strategic Bombing During World War II severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
• 1941 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program to build freighters in support of the war effort.
• 1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
• 1942 - The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• 1946 - Unable to resume rule after World War II, Zog of Albania of Albania Abdication but retains his claim to the King of Albania.
• 1949 - Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1955 - Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.
• 1957 - The Pacific Exchange and Pacific Exchange merge.
• 1959 - The first artificial satellite to orbit the moon, Luna 1, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
• 1969 - Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1969 - Operation Barrier Reef began in Mekong Delta, Vietnam
• 1971 - The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers F.C.-Celtic F.C. football game.
• 1974 - Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum United States speed limit to 55 mile per hour in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
• 1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC, becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance.
• 1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia and Herzegovina meet to discuss peace plans.
• 1998 - Russia begins to circulate new Russian rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
• 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, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
• 2001 - Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 2002 - Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
• 2004 - Stardust (spacecraft) successfully flies past Comet 81P/Wild, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.

Births

• 1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
• 1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
• 1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
• 1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
• 1727 - James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
• 1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
• 1822 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
• 1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
• 1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
• 1836 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
• 1837 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
• 1870 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1873 - Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
• 1877 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)
• 1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
• 1892 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
• 1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
• 1897 - Jim Londos, wrestler (d. 1975)
• 1902 - Dan Keating, Irish republicanism (d. 2007)
• 1904 - Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
• 1905 - Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
• 1905 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
• 1910 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Famous Modern Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
• 1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
• 1917 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
• 1921 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1928 - Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist
• 1928 - Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
• 1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer, president of Soka Gakkai International
• 1930 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
• 1933 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
• 1935 - Neil Downing, Irish writer and musician
• 1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
• 1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
• 1938 - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
• 1940 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist
• 1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
• 1942 - Dennis Hastert, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1942 - Hugh Shelton, 15th Joint Chiefs of Staff#Chairman
• 1944 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
• 1946 - Richard Cole, American tour manager
• 1947 - Jack Hanna, American zoologist
• 1947 - Calvin Hill, American football player
• 1949 - Christopher Durang, American playwright
• 1950 - David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
• 1951 - Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian-born painter
• 1954 - Henry Bonilla, American politician
• 1954 - Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
• 1955 - Tex Brashear, American voice actor
• 1957 - Joanna Pacula, Polish actress
• 1958 - Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
• 1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author
• 1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
• 1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
• 1963 - David Cone, American baseball player
• 1963 - Edgar Martinez, American baseball player
• 1964 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
• 1965 - Greg Swindell, American baseball player
• 1967 - Tia Carrere, American actress
• 1967 - Jón Gnarr, Icelandic comedian
• 1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
• 1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
• 1968 - Evan Parke, Jamaican actor
• 1968 - Goichi Suda, CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture
• 1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer
• 1969 - Christy Turlington, American model
• 1969 - Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1969 - Patrick Huard, Quebec actor and comedian
• 1970 - Royce Clayton, American baseball player
• 1970 - Robert Fertitta, American opera singer
• 1970 - Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer
• 1971 - Taye Diggs, American actor
• 1971 - Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
• 1971 - Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
• 1972 - Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
• 1973 - Lucy Davis, British actress
• 1973 - Will Kirby, American actor
• 1975 - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1975 - Douglas Robb (musician), American singer (Hoobastank)
• 1975 - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
• 1975 - Sundra Oakley, American actress and Survivor (TV series) contestant
• 1976 - Cletidus Hunt, American football player
• 1976 - Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
• 1976 - Paz Vega, Spanish actress
• 1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi, triple jump & long jump athlete
• 1977 - Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player
• 1977 - Scott Proctor, American baseball player
• 1978 - Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
• 1979 - Suranne Jones, British actress
• 1980 - Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant
• 1980 - Bill Alldredge, American politician
• 1981 - Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
• 1981 - Kirk Hinrich, basketball player
• 1981 - Maximiliano Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
• 1981 - Ryan Garko, American baseball player
• 1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
• 1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
• 1984 - Colleen Taylor, American journalist
• 1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
• 1987 - Loui Batley, British actress

Deaths

• 1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
• 1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
• 1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
• 1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
• 1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
• 1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
• 1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
• 1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
• 1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
• 1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
• 1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
• 1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
• 1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
• 1946 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
• 1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
• 1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
• 1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1986 - Bill Veeck, baseball executive (b. 1914)
• 1986 - Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
• 1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
• 1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
• 1995 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
• 1997 - Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit (band)) (b. 1951)
• 2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
• 2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
• 2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
• 2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
• 2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
• 2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
• 2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
• 2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
• 2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
• 2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
• 2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
• 2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
• 2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
• 2007 - David Perkins (geneticist), Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
• 2007 - A. Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
• 2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
• 2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
• 2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)

Holidays and observances

• Second day of New Year, New Zealand
• Second day of New Year, Slovenia
• Second day of New Year, Ukraine
• Second day of new Year, Japan
• Ancestry Day, Haiti
• Second day of the Hogmanay Bank Holiday, Scotland

Religious observances

• The eighth twelvetide (and ninth night of same) in Western Christianity.
• Basil the GreatAttwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
• Caspar del Bufalo
• Gregory of Nazianzus
• Macarius the Younger
• Seraphim of Sarov
• St. Berchtold's Day, Switzerland
• January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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