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| January 2nd |
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| About January 2nd is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the calendar year (364 in leap years). Births 1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, U.S. Congressman (New York) 1904 - Sally Rand, fan dancer 1925 - William J. Crowe, admiral, ambassador 1925 - Larry Harmon, entertainer, producer 1927 - Gino Marchetti, Hall of Fame defensive end 1928 - Robert Goralski, journalist 1930 - Julius LaRosa, singer 1936 - Roger Miller, singer 1940 - Jim Bakker, televangelist 1940 - S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician 1942 - Dennis Hastert, former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker 1942 - Hugh Shelton, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1947 - Jack Hanna, zoologist 1949 - Christopher Durang, playwright 1950 - David Shifrin, classical clarinetist 1954 - Henry Bonilla, politician 1956 - Lynda Barry, cartoonist 1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, actress 1961 - Todd Haynes, film director 1963 - David Cone, professional baseball player 1963 - Edgar Martínez, professional baseball player 1964 - Pernell Whitaker, professional boxer 1967 - Tia Carrere, actress 1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., actor 1969 - Tommy Morrison, boxer 1969 - Christy Turlington, model 1969 - Robby Gordon, auto racer 1970 - Robert Fertitta, opera singer 1971 - Taye Diggs, actor 1971 - Renee Elise Goldsberry, actress, singer 1971 - Lisa Harrison, basketball player 1972 - Christopher Lennertz, composer 1973 - Will Kirby, actor 1975 - Doug Robb, singer 1975 - Dax Shepard, actor 1980 - Mac Danzig, MMA fighter 1983 - Kate Bosworth, actress 1984 - Colleen Taylor, journalist 1985 - Heather O'Reilly, soccer player 1987 - Syesha Mercado, singer Deaths 1904 - James Longstreet, Confederate general 1941 - Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist 1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer, novelist 1963 - Dick Powell, actor 1963 - Jack Carson, actor 1971 - Willard Maas, educator, experimental filmmaker 1974 - Tex Ritter, actor 1977 - Errol Garner, musician 1986 - Una Merkel, actress 1986 - Bill Veeck, baseball executive 1990 - Alan Hale Jr., actor 1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, politician 1995 - Nancy Kelly, actress 2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral 2000 - Nat Adderley, musician and composer 2001 - William P. Rogers, American politician 2001 - Teri Diver, actress 2004 - Jess Collins, artist 2004 - Lynn Cartwright, actress 2005 - Maclyn McCarty, geneticist 2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, artist 2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, politician 2007 - David Perkins, geneticist 2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, historian 2007 - Robert C. Solomon, scholar 2007 - Dan Shaver, racecar driver 2008 - Lee S. Dreyfus, politician Events 1777 - During the 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 . 1788 - Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1791 - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. 1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris . 1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China . 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. 1942 - 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. 1974 - 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. 1999 - 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 -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported. 2004 - Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later. |
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