"January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (364 in leap years)."
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Holidays and observances
• Second day of the Hogmanay Bank Holiday, Scotland
• Second day of New Year, Slovenia - Public holidays in Slovenia
• Second day of New Year, Serbia - Public holidays in Serbia
• Day after New Year's Day, New Zealand - Public holidays in New Zealand
Christian celebrations:
• The ninth day of Christmas (and ninth night of same) in Western Christianity.
• Feast days of the following:
• Basil the Great
• Caspar del Bufalo
• Gregory of Nazianzus
• Macarius the Younger
• Seraphim of Sarov
• Saint Defendens of Thebes
• January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Events
366 - The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire
533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy
1492 - Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders
1777 - 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
1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded
1833 - Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris
1871 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain
1900 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
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