2 Januar

The **2nt o Januar** is the 2nt day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 363 days ti come (364 in lowp years).

## Events

* 366 - The Alemanni cross the Rhine intae the then-Roman Empire.
* 1492 - The last Moorish stronghold o Granada surrenders, endin the Spainyie Reconquista.
* 1788 - Georgie becomes the 4t state o the Unitit States.
* 1793 - Roushie an Proushie partition Poland.
* 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Roushie garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, Cheenae.
* 1907 - Fraunce offeecially separates kirk an state.
* 1921 - Spaingie steamship "Santa Isabel" sinks aff Galicie, killin 213 fowk.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Llandaff Cathedral is heavily damaged during the Cardiff Blitz.
* 1942 - Warld War II: Japanese forces occupy Manila, Philippines.
* 1945 - Warld War II: An Allied air raid on Nuremberg awmaist completely destroys the ceety.
* 1959 - The Soviet Union launches the Luna 1 probe.
* 1967 - Ronald Reagan becomes Govrenor o Californie.
* 1971 - 66 fowk are kilt in the Ibrox Stadium disaster.
* 1998 - Roushie begins to circulate new roubles. 
* 1999 - A brutal snawstorm sweeps across the Midwastren Unitit States. 68 daiths are reportit.
* 2004 - NASA probe Stardust captures comet dust frae comet Wild 2.
* 2016 - Saudi Arabie executes 47 fowk in a single day, incluidin Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
* 2017 - A bomb attack in Baghdad kills at least 35 fowk.
* 2018 - A bus plunges aff a cliff naur Pasamayo (north o Lima, Peru), killin 48 fowk.
* 2020 - 2019-20 Australie bushfire creesis: The State o New Sooth Wales declares a State o Emergency, while the State o Victoria declares a State o Disaster efter months o devastatin fires hae left millions o ainimals deed.

## Births

* 1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
* 1699 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
* 1727 - James Wolfe, Inglis general (d. 1759)
* 1822 - Rudolf Clausius, German pheesicist an mathemateecian (d. 1888)
* 1837 - Mily Balakirev, Roushie componer (d. 1910)
* 1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Inglis splorer (d. 1959)
* 1905 - Michael Tippett, Inglis componer (d. 1998)
* 1909 - Barry Goldwater, American politeecian (d. 1998)
* 1920 - Isaac Asimov, Roushie-American writer (d. 1992)
* 1922 - Maurice Faure, French politeecian (d. 2014)
* 1942 - Dennis Hastert, American politeecian
* 1945 - Slobodan Praljak, Croatie-Bosnie politeecian an general (d. 2017)
* 1951 - Waldir Peres, Brazilian fitbawer (d. 2017)
* 1955 - Rose Reilly, Scots fitbawer
* 1967 - Tia Carrere, American actress an sangster
* 1967 - Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor, comedian an politeecian
* 1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
* 1969 - Christy Turlington, American model
* 1975 - Dax Shepard, American actor
* 1976 - Paz Vega, Spaingie actress an model
* 1981 - Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine fitbawer
* 1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
* 1987 - Loïc Rémy, French fitbawer
* 1991 - Josh Taylor, Scots boxer
* 1999 - Aidan Wilson, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathemateecian (b. 1601)
* 1857 - Andrew Ure, Scots doctor, scholar an chemist (b. 1778)
* 1861 - Frederick William IV o Proushie (b. 1795)
* 2011 - Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
* 2011 - Pete Postlethwaite, Inglis actor (b. 1946)
* 2011 - Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
* 2016 - Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi sheikh (b. 1959)
* 2016 - Michel Delpech, French sangster (b. 1946)

## Halidays
* Ne'er's Day Bank Haliday (Scotland)
* Ancestry Day (Haiti)
* Berchtold's Day (Swisserland, Liechtenstein, Alsace)