January 2

January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . Following are still 363 days (364 days in a leap year ) until the end of the year.

Content

 * 1 Events
 * 2 Birth
 * 3 Deceased
 * 4 Celebration / memorial
 * 5 Weather Extremes
 * 5.1 Netherlands
 * 5.2 Belgium

Events

 * General
 * 1871 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain .
 * 1935 - Bruno Hauptmann, who is suspected of the 2-year-old son of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh have been kidnapped and murdered, is on trial. Later he is found guilty and executed.
 * 1976 - A heavy storm pulls over Europe and caused much damage. Fall every two deaths in the Netherlands and Belgium.
 * 1981 - The British police arrest the Yorkshire Ripper .
 * 2006 - In the Bavarian Bad Reichenhall collapsed the roof of a skating rink in by heavy snowfall . Fifteen people were killed and about 35 injured.
 * 2010 - In the Belgian town Delete the murdered bodies Shana Appeltans and Kevin Paul be retrieved. The couple was killed by serial killer Ronald Janssen, who later also the murder of the Belgian Annick Van Uytsel confesses.


 * Economy
 * 2007 - The AEX comes for the first time since May 2002 above the 500-point border.
 * 2008 - For the first 100 US dollars for a barrel of oil offered.


 * Art
 * 1985 - The musical Annie is performed for the 2377e and last time on Broadway .


 * Media
 * 1965 - First broadcast of the top 40 .
 * 1967 - For the first advertisement broadcast on Dutch television .
 * 1988 - The Dutch television program The First Best with Walter Tiemessen and T. Blom sends the first direct domino broadcast from.
 * 2009 - Last broadcast on Radio Donna .


 * War
 * 366 - The Alemanni stabbing again in great numbers the Rhine over and fall Gaul inside.
 * 1492 - The Spanish army wins Granada to the Moors .
 * 1905 - Russian troops in Port Arthur capitulate to the Japanese units. The surrender takes place without the consent of the Russian High Command.
 * 1942 - Manila, capital of the Philippines , by Japan occupied.
 * 1945 - The German city of Nuremberg is bombed by the Allies . Ninety percent of the old town is destroyed.


 * Politics
 * 1788 - Georgia signs as fourth state the Constitution of the United States .
 * 1957 - The state pension (AOW) goes into the Netherlands.
 * 1960 - Senator John F. Kennedy announces that he will stand up for the Democratic Party candidate for the presidency.
 * 1974 - The minimum wage in the Netherlands is as follows: f 1049.10 per month; f 242.10 per week and f 48.42 per day.
 * 1999 - Juan José Ibarretxe is sworn to Basque Prime Minister.


 * Sport
 * 1891 - Pim Mulier skating along the eleven Frisian cities in a record time of 13 hours.
 * 1909 - President S. Hylkema Frisian IJsbond gets the green light for the start of the first Elfstedentocht . Of the 48 participants, only nine pick the finish of the 200 km ride to thaw ice. Winner is the 24 year old theology student Minne Hoekstra from Warga (13 hours and 50 minutes).
 * 1971 - When in Glasgow during a soccer collapsing a stand, get 66 spectators died. See Ibrox disaster .


 * Science and Technology
 * 1839 - Louis Daguerre take the first picture of the moon .
 * 1959 - The Russians launch the 360-kilogram spacecraft Luna 1, the first man-made object, that after the moon to have passed a kunstplaneetje is from the sun . This is possible because the spacecraft will get a greater rate than 11.2 kilometers per second, the speed needed to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth (the so called. escape velocity ).
 * 2013 - Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory take first the birth of a planet where, 450 light years from the Earth .

Born [ edit ]
Mehmet IV born in 1642

Therese of Lisieux born in 1873

Isaac Asimov born in 1920

Tia Carrere born in 1967

Cuba Gooding Jr. born in 1968

Danilo Di Luca born January 2, 1976

Kate Bosworth born in 1983
 * 1642 - Mehmet IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (deceased in 1693 )
 * 1645 - Wilhelmus à Brakel, Dutch minister (deceased in 1711 )
 * 1699 - Osman III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (deceased in 1757 )
 * 1732 - František Brixi, Bohemian composer and bandmaster (deceased in 1771 )
 * 1784 - Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (deceased in 1844 )
 * 1794 - Joseph Lebeau, Belgian politician (deceased in 1866 )
 * 1822 - Rudolf Clausius, Prussian physicist (deceased in 1888 )
 * 1827 - Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer (deceased in 1914 )
 * 1837 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (deceased in 1910 )
 * 1840 - Félix Delastelle, French cryptographer (deceased in 1902 )
 * 1851 - Isidoor Teirlinck, Flemish author (deceased in 1934 )
 * 1870 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (deceased in 1938 )
 * 1871 - Paul Sedir, French writer and mystic (deceased in 1926 )
 * 1873 - Therese of Lisieux, French holy nun (deceased in 1897 )
 * 1873 - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch left activist and astronomer (deceased in 1960 )
 * 1877 - Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (deceased in 1906 )
 * 1879 - Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian athlete (deceased in 1932 )
 * 1879 - Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist (deceased in 1961 )
 * 1885 - Eddy de Neve, Dutch footballer (deceased 1943 )
 * 1885 - Johan Ringers, Dutch politician (deceased in 1965 )
 * 1886 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (deceased in 1938 )
 * 1889 - Tito Schipa, Italian singer (lyric tenor) (deceased in 1965 )
 * 1893 - Ernst Marischka, Austrian film director and author (deceased in 1963 )
 * 1893 - Félix Sellier, Belgian cyclist (deceased in 1965 )
 * 1895 - Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (deceased in 1948 )
 * 1896 - Piet Ikelaar, Dutch cyclist (deceased in 1992 )
 * 1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian director (deceased in 1954 )
 * 1900 - William Haines, American actor (deceased in 1973 )
 * 1900 - Józef Klotz, Polish footballer (deceased in 1941 )
 * 1901 - Pleun van Leenen, Dutch long-distance (deceased in 1982 )
 * 1903 - Anton of Dunkirk, Dutch writer (deceased in 1968 )
 * 1904 - Hilda Klapwijk, Dutch swimmer and clean jumper (deceased in 1991 )
 * 1905 - Michael Tippett, British composer (deceased in 1998 )
 * 1909 - Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (deceased in 2009 )
 * 1909 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (deceased in 1998 )
 * 1912 - André Amellér, French composer, pedagogue, conductor and double bass player (deceased in 1990 )
 * 1913 - Anna Lee, English actress (deceased in 2004 )
 * 1914 - Pirkle Jones, American photographer (deceased in 2009 )
 * 1915 - Luc Philips, Belgian actor and director (deceased in 2002 )
 * 1920 - Isaac Asimov, American biochemist and author of science fiction (deceased in 1992 )
 * 1920 - Armand Pien, Belgian weatherman and pioneer of Flemish television (deceased in 2003 )
 * 1920 - Fernand Wyss, Belgian war criminal (deceased in 1947 )
 * 1922 - Nico Schuyt, Dutch composer (deceased in 1992 )
 * 1924 - Andreas Rett, an Austrian physician (deceased in 1997 )
 * 1925 - Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova, Russian opera singer (deceased in 2010 )
 * 1925 - Francesco Colasuonno, Italian curial cardinal (deceased in 2003 )
 * 1925 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer (deceased in 2008 )
 * 1925 - Jan Uitham, Dutch skater
 * 1930 - Julius La Rosa, American singer
 * 1931 - Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician
 * 1932 - Lajos Kalános, Dutch-Hungarian cameraman (deceased in 2013 )
 * 1936 - Jan Kleinpenning, Dutch social geography
 * 1936 - Roger Miller, American singer (deceased in 1992 )
 * 1937 - Martin Ros, Dutch publisher and book reviewer
 * 1938 - Robert Smithson, American artist (deceased in 1973 )
 * 1940 - Vic Bonke, Dutch scientist and politician
 * 1940 - Giovanni Galli, Italian racing driver
 * 1940 - SR Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian American mathematician
 * 1941 - Willy Senders, Dutch footballer
 * 1942 - Ina Berckelaer-Onnes, Dutch pedagogue
 * 1943 - Baris Manco, Turkish rock singer, songwriter and television producer (deceased in 1999 )
 * 1943 - Jesús Manzaneque, Spanish cyclist
 * 1944 - Willy Dobbe, Dutch presenter
 * 1944 - Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
 * 1945 - Masaki Suzuki, Japanese speed skater
 * 1948 - Leo Duyndam, Dutch cyclist (deceased in 1990 )
 * 1948 - Penney de Jager, Dutch dancer
 * 1949 - Leijn Loevesijn, Dutch cyclist
 * 1950 - Leo van der Goot, Dutch DJ
 * 1952 - Franz Hetzenauer, Austrian entrepreneur
 * 1952 - Ng Man-tat, Chinese actor
 * 1953 - Daniel Hershkowitz, Israeli mathematician, rabbi and politician
 * 1953 - Jacques Tichelaar, Dutch politician
 * 1954 - Pavle Jurina, Croatian handball player (deceased in 2011 )
 * 1956 - Jos de Mul, Dutch professor of philosophy
 * 1957 - Beppe Gabbiani, Italian racing driver
 * 1959 - Dirk Bikkembergs, Belgian fashion designer
 * 1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese mangaka
 * 1961 - Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
 * 1961 - Chardon, Dutch driver of Driving
 * 1961 - Hitoshi Saito, Japanese judoka (deceased in 2015 )
 * 1961 - Acácio da Silva, Portuguese cyclist
 * 1963 - Bianca Bonelli, Dutch singer
 * 1964 - David Lavaux, Belgian politician
 * 1966 - Kate Hodge, American actress and film producer
 * 1967 - Peter de Backer, Belgian billiard
 * 1967 - Basile Boli, French footballer
 * 1967 - Tia Carrere, American actress and model
 * 1967 - Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician
 * 1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor
 * 1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage rider
 * 1969 - Robby Gordon, American race car driver
 * 1969 - Tommy Morrison, American boxer (deceased in 2013 )
 * 1969 - Francisque Teyssier, French cyclist
 * 1969 - Christy Turlington, American model
 * 1970 - Wia Buze, Dutch singer
 * 1970 - Sanda Ladoşi, Romanian singer
 * 1970 - Marleen van der Loo, Dutch singer, dancer and actress
 * 1970 - Eric Whitacre, American composer, music educator and conductor
 * 1971 - Taye Diggs, American actor
 * 1971 - Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress, singer and songwriter
 * 1971 - Slobodan Komljenović, Yugoslavian-Serbian football player
 * 1971 - Nyk de Vries, Dutch writer and poet
 * 1972 - Greg Bennett, Australian triathlete
 * 1972 - Arif Erdem, Turkish footballer
 * 1972 - Egil Østenstad, Norwegian footballer
 * 1973 - Svetlana Bubnenkova, Russian cyclist
 * 1973 - Ján Šipeky, Slovak cyclist
 * 1974 - Petter Andersen, Norwegian skater
 * 1974 - Look J. Boden, Dutch writer, poet and publisher
 * 1974 - Tomáš Řepka Czech footballer
 * 1975 - Chris Cheney, Australian guitarist and singer
 * 1975 - Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, Ukrainian football goalkeeper
 * 1975 - Robert Westerholt, Dutch guitarist
 * 1976 - Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek athlete
 * 1976 - Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
 * 1976 - Paz Vega, Spanish actress
 * 1977 - Timothy Beck, Dutch athlete and bobsledder
 * 1977 - Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
 * 1978 - Froylán Ledezma, Costa Rican footballer
 * 1978 - Evgeniy Levchenko, Ukrainian footballer
 * 1979 - Rudy Jansen, Dutch footballer
 * 1980 - Melvin Holwijn, Dutch footballer
 * 1980 - Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist
 * 1981 - Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
 * 1981 - Flower Tucci, American porn actress
 * 1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek athlete
 * 1983 - Kate Bosworth, American actress
 * 1983 - Takaharu Nakajima, Japanese speed skater
 * 1984 - Frank van Mosselveld, Dutch footballer
 * 1984 - Valerio Zeno, Dutch presenter
 * 1985 - Konrad Niedźwiedzki, Polish speed skater
 * 1986 - Kevin Janssens, Belgian footballer
 * 1986 - Maria Kirkova, Bulgarian alpineskiester
 * 1987 - Vitaly Anikeyenko, Ukrainian hockey (deceased in 2011 )
 * 1987 - Nađa Higl, Serbian swimmer
 * 1988 - Ruth Bosibori, Kenyan athlete
 * 1989 - Olivia Bertrand, French alpineskiester
 * 1989 - Bianca Knight, American athlete
 * 1989 - Okilani Tinilau, Tuvaluan athlete and footballer
 * 1990 - Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer
 * 1990 - Bernadette Schild, Austrian alpineskiester
 * 1991 - Rheda Djellal, Belgian-Algerian footballer
 * 1991 - Davide Santon, Italian footballer
 * 1996 - Lucien Koch, Swiss snowboarder

Deceased [ edit ]
Frederick William IV of Prussia deceased in 1861

Fausto Coppi deceased in 1960

A coin with the inscription: "Love and builds Jerusalem," beaten in honor of Teddy Kollek deceased in 2007

Arend Voortman deceased in 2012
 * 1557 - Pontormo (62), Florentine painter
 * 1726 - Domenico Zipoli (37), Italian composer
 * 1823 - Johann Baptist Allgaier (59), German chess grandmaster
 * 1861 - Frederick William IV of Prussia (65), King of Prussia
 * 1892 - George Biddell Airy (90), British astronomer and mathematician
 * 1904 - James Longstreet (82), American soldier
 * 1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort (57), French meteorologist
 * 1915 - Karl Goldmark (84), Austrian composer and violinist
 * 1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor (84), English anthropologist
 * 1917 - Léon Flameng (39), French cyclist
 * 1920 - Paul Adam (57), French novelist
 * 1921 - Franz Defregger (85), Austrian painter
 * 1940 - Birger Wasenius (38), Finnish speed skater
 * 1943 - Franz Courtens (88), Belgian painter
 * 1950 - Emil Jannings (64), German theater and film actor
 * 1951 - Alphons Boosten (57), Dutch architect
 * 1958 - Remy C. van de Kerckhove (36), Belgian footballer and poet
 * 1960 - Chris van Abkoude or Charles Winters (79), Dutch writer, journalist and artist
 * 1960 - Fausto Coppi (40) Italian cyclist
 * 1960 - Norbert Goormaghtigh (69), Belgian professor
 * 1960 - Cees Laseur (60), Dutch actor and director
 * 1963 - Dick Powell (58), American actor, film director, singer, producer
 * 1966 - Edwin Swatek (80), American water polo
 * 1977 - Erroll Garner (53), American jazz pianist and composer
 * 1983 - Arie Dirk Bestebreurtje (66) Dutch military
 * 1985 - Henry Borginon (94), Flemish politician and lawyer
 * 1986 - Una Merkel (82), U.S. actress
 * 1990 - Belcampo (pseudonym for Herman Schönfeld Wichers) (87), Dutch writer
 * 1990 - Alan Hale jr. (68), American actor
 * 1991 - Renato Rascel (89), Italian singer and actor
 * 1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (81), French officer and chairman of the International Monetary Fund
 * 1995 - Siad Barre (75), Somali politician
 * 1995 - Harry Keijser (94), Dutch athlete
 * 1996 - Helmut Salden (85), Dutch designer and graphic designer
 * 1997 - Joan Coromines (91), Catalan linguist and lexicographer
 * 1997 - Gerard van Essen (72), Dutch comedian and actor
 * 1998 - Haxhi Lleshi (84), Albanian politician
 * 1999 - Sebastian Haffner (91), German journalist and historian
 * 2000 - Nat Adderley (68), American jazz musician
 * 2000 - Mercedes, Princess of Asturias Sicily (89), Spanish member of the House of Bourbon-Sicily
 * 2000 - Patrick O'Brian (85), British writer
 * 2001 - William P. Rogers (87), American politician
 * 2002 - Charles Herman Beyen (78), Dutch politician
 * 2003 - Leroy Warriner (83), American race car driver
 * 2005 - Arnold Denker (90), American chess grandmaster
 * 2006 - Henk de Looper (93), Dutch hockey
 * 2006 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (92), Filipino judge
 * 2006 - Francis Steinmetz (91), Dutch military
 * 2006 - Lidia Wysocka (89), Polish actress
 * 2007 - Teddy Kollek (95), Israeli politician
 * 2007 - Paek Nam-sun (76), North Korean politician
 * 2007 - Dan Shaver (56), American race car driver
 * 2008 - George MacDonald Fraser (82), British writer
 * 2008 - Alfredo Montelibano jr. (73), Filipino politician
 * 2008 - Robert C. Schnitzer (101), American actor and producer
 * 2008 - Martinus Tels (81), Dutch chemist and physicist
 * 2008 - Galyani Vadhana (84), Thai princess
 * 2009 - Inger Christensen (73), Danish poet
 * 2009 - Maria de Jesus (115), Portuguese oldest man
 * 2009 - Rashid III bin Ahmad Al Mu'alla (78), Emir of Umm al-Qaiwain
 * 2011 - Jan van Beek (85), Dutch journalist
 * 2011 - Anne Francis (80), U.S. actress
 * 2011 - The Count (90), British-Dutch resistance fighter and translator
 * 2011 - Hannah Crane (64), Dutch children's author
 * 2011 - Pete Postlethwaite (64), British actor
 * 2011 - Richard Winters (92), American soldier
 * 2012 - Ioan Drăgan (46), Romanian footballer
 * 2012 - Govert Nooteboom (81), Dutch politician
 * 2012 - Arend Voortman (81), Dutch politician
 * 2013 - Zaharira Harifai (83), Israeli actress
 * 2013 - Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (67), Uruguayan football goalkeeper
 * 2013 - Rudolf Szanwald (81), Austrian football goalkeeper
 * 2014 - Jeanne Brabants (93), Belgian dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
 * 2014 - Norbert Van Broekhoven (67), Belgian entrepreneur and director
 * 2014 - Elizabeth Jane Howard (90), British writer
 * 2015 - Roger Kittler (64), British actor and comedian
 * 2015 - Anas al-Liby (50), Libyan terrorist
 * 2015 - Derek Minter (82), British motorcycle racer

Celebration / commemoration [ edit ]

 * Roman Catholic calendar:
 * Saints Basil the Great († 379 ) and Gregory Nazianzen († 389 ), bishops and church teachers - Remembrance
 * St. Caspar del Bufalo († 1837 )
 * Holy Adalard of Corbie (Corbie) († 826 / 7 )
 * Saint Macarius of Alexandria († c. 394 / 401 )
 * Commemoration of the Eerbw. Charles Schilling († 1907 )

[Netherlands edit ]
Record counts [1]
 * 1997 - Lowest mean daily temperature is -12.6 ° C
 * 1988 - Highest mean daily temperature is 10.9 ° C
 * 1979 - Lowest minimum temperature -16.7 ° C
 * 1988 - Highest maximum temperature 13.4 ° C
 * 1930 - Highest hourly average wind speed 19 m / s
 * 1993 - Longest sunshine duration 6.9 hours
 * 1981 - Longest rainfall duration 15.5 hours
 * 1959 - Top etmaalsom of rainfall 22.3 mm
 * 1906 - Lowest mean daily relative humidity 61%

Belgium [ edit ]
Record counts [2] Extraordinary events [3]
 * 1997 - Lowest mean daily temperature is -10.8 ° C
 * 2003 - Highest mean daily temperature is 10.9 ° C
 * 1997 - Lowest minimum temperature -14.1 ° C
 * 2003 - Highest maximum temperature 13.2 ° C
 * 1952 - Top etmaalsom of rainfall 21.3 mm
 * 1976 - Heavy storm with wind gusts up to 150 km / h in Ostend. Storm and tide embankment causing fractures in the region of Ruisbroek (Puurs) with floods in the province of Antwerp.
 * 1997 - Lowest Temperature -21.4 ° C in Elsenborn (Bütgenbach).