January
2
Events
January
02
1833 – Re-establishment
of British rule on the Falkland
Islands.
1860 – The discovery of
the planet Vulcan is announced
at a meeting of the French
Academy of Sciences in Paris,
France
1959 – Luna 1, the first
spacecraft to reach the
vicinity of the Moon and
to orbit the Sun, is launched
by the Soviet Union
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
Holidays
and observances
Ancestry Day (Haiti)
Berchtold’s Day (Switzerland,
Liechtenstein and the Alsace)
Christian Feast Day:
Basil the Great (Roman Catholic
and Anglican Church)
Defendens of Thebes
Gregory of Nazianzus (Roman
Catholic Church)
Macarius of Alexandria
Seraphim of Sarov (repose)
January 2 (Eastern Orthodox
liturgics)
The first day of Blacks
and Whites' Carnival, celebrated
until January 7. (southern
Colombia)
The first day of Riosucio´s
Carnival, celebrated until
January 8 every 2 years.
(Riosucio)
The ninth day of Christmas
(Western Christianity)
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