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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). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine 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 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River (a.k.a. Battle of Murfreesboro) resumes in central Tennessee after a day's respite, resulting in a significant Union victory.
1865 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as Brazilian and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
1900 – American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
1941 – World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
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.
1942 – World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by Japanese forces.
1945 – World War II: Nuremberg, Germany is severely bombed by Allied forces.
1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.
1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory.
1967 – Ronald Reagan sworn in as Governor of California
1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
1974 – United States 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.
1975 – A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways
1975 – Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies in police custody.
1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, which results in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, resulting in at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
1992 – Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.
1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
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 are returned to Earth.
2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, leaving only one survivor.
869 – Yōzei, Japanese emperor (d. 949)
1403 – Basilios Bessarion, Greek cardinal and scholar (d. 1472)
1462 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1522)
1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)
1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)
1699 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1757)
1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1719 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)
1727 – James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)
1732 – František Brixi, Czech organist and composer (d. 1771)
1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator (d. 1857)
1822 – Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician (d. 1888)
1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
1833 – Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (d. 1893)
1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)
1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)
1851 – Ludwig von Graff, Austrian zoologist (d. 1924)
1852 – Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Turkish playwright and poet (d. 1937)
1857 – M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935)
1860 – William Corless Mills, American historian and curator (d. 1928)
1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)
1866 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-English playwright and scholar (d. 1957)
1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (d. 1938)
1870 – Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and businessman (d. 1929)
1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)
1876 – Aquiles Serdán, Mexican activist and politician (d. 1910)
1878 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (d. 1970)
1879 – Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian discus thrower (d. 1932)
1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (d. 1973)
1885 – Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer and author (d. 1959)
1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian-American actress (d. 1938)
1886 – Billy Zulch, South African cricketer (d. 1924)
1889 – Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
1890 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian-American poet and playwright (d. 1951)
1891 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)
1892 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 – Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish lieutenant and diplomat (d. 1948)
1896 – Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1954)
1896 – Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer (d. 1982)
1897 – Jim Londos, Greek-American wrestler (d. 1975)
1897 – Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian (d. 1965)
1898 – Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American economist and lawyer (d. 1989)
1899 – Burhan Asaf Belge, Turkish diplomat (d. 1967)
1900 – William Haines, American actor and interior designer (d. 1973)
1901 – Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939)
1902 – Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (d. 2007)
1904 – Truus Klapwijk, Dutch diver and swimmer (d. 1991)
1905 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian author and translator (d. 1988)
1905 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1938)
1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (d. 1998)
1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (d. 2009)
1909 – Barry Goldwater, American general and politician (d. 1998)
1913 – Anna Lee, English-American actress (d. 2004)
1913 – Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist (d. 1992)
1914 – Kenny Clarke, American drummer and composer (d. 1985)
1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, British SOE agent (d. 1944)
1916 – Zypora Spaisman, Polish-American midwife and actress and producer of the Yiddish stage (d. 2002)
1917 – Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003)
1918 – Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943)
1918 – Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979)
1920 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-American chemist, author, and academic (d. 1992)
1921 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1923 – Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
1924 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer, actor, and director (d. 2009)
1925 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 2007)
1927 – Gino Marchetti, American football player
1928 – Avie Bennett, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
1928 – Robert Goralski, American journalist and author (d. 1988)
1928 – Kate Molale, South African activist and politician (d. 1980)
1928 – Dan Rostenkowski, American Congressman (d. 2010)
1931 – James D. Murray, Scottish mathematician and academic
1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan
1932 – Peter Redgrove, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
1933 – Ed Casey, Australian banker and politician (d. 2006)
1933 – Seiichi Morimura, Japanese author
1933 – Richard Riley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Education
1933 – Keith Thomas, Welsh historian, author, and academic
1935 – David McKee, English author and illustrator
1935 – Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer and academic (d. 1987)
1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992)
1938 – David Bailey, English photographer and painter
1938 – Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer
1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author and educator
1938 – Goh Kun, South Korean politician, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
1938 – Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (d. 1973)
1938 – Dana Ulery, American computer scientist
1940 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist
1940 – Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)
1942 – Thomas Hammarberg, Swedish lawyer and diplomat
1942 – Dennis Hastert, American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1942 – Hugh Shelton, American general
1943 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)
1944 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
1944 – Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia
1946 – Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author
1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player
1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, historian, and critic
1948 – Judith Miller, American journalist and author
1948 – Joyce Wadler, American journalist and author
1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter
1949 – Jean Krier, Luxembourger poet (d. 2013)
1949 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1950 – Anatoli Ushanov, Russian footballer and coach
1951 – Jim Essian, American baseball player and coach
1951 – Alexander Pogrebinsky, Ukrainian-American painter and educator
1952 – Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia
1952 – Wendy Phillips, American actress
1952 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
1953 – Vincent Racaniello, American virologist, author, and academic
1953 – Jacques Tichelaar, Dutch educator and politician
1954 – Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and politician
1956 – Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author
1957 – Beppe Gabbiani, Italian race car driver
1958 – Helen Goodman, English lawyer and politician
1958 – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist and educator
1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer and politician
1960 – Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
1961 – Todd Haynes, American director and screenwriter
1961 – Craig James, American football player and sportscaster
1961 – Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician
1963 – David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster
1963 – Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
1964 – Michael McCann, Scottish lawyer and politician
1964 – Rumesh Ratnayake, Sri Lankan cricketer
1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
1965 – Greg Swindell, American baseball player and coach
1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress
1967 – Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavik City
1967 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor and producer
1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch horse rider
1969 – István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter
1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and journalist
1969 – Robby Gordon, American race car driver
1969 – Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian businessman and politician, 16th Finance Minister of Austria
1969 – Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
1969 – Christy Turlington, American model
1970 – Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor
1971 – Taye Diggs, American actor
1971 – Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress
1971 – Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
1972 – Adam Elliot, Australian animator and screenwriter
1972 – Paweł Januszewski, Polish hurdler
1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
1972 – Hristos Meletoglou, German-Greek triple jumper
1972 – Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
1973 – Lucy Davis, English actress
1974 – Jason de Vos, Canadian soccer player and sportscaster
1974 – Ludmila Formanová, Czech runner
1974 – Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer
1975 – Chris Cheney, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1975 – Dax Shepard, American actor
1975 – Jeff Suppan, American baseball player
1975 – Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
1976 – Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek jumper
1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
1977 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
1977 – Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
1977 – Aleš Píša, Czech ice hockey player
1978 – Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer
1978 – Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1978 – Yoon Se-ah, South Korean actress
1979 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer and coach
1980 – Georgios Dedas, Greek basketball player
1980 – Melvin Holwijn, Dutch footballer
1980 – Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist
1981 – Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1981 – Ryan Garko, American baseball player
1981 – Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
1981 – Maxi Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer
1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
1984 – Otacílio Jales, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
1986 – Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (d. 2012)
1986 – Nicolás Bertolo, Argentinian footballer
1986 – Trombone Shorty, American trumpet player and composer
1988 – Joseph Paulo, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
1988 – Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
1988 – Kim Shi-hoo, South Korean actor
1989 – Maksims Bogdanovs, Latvian motorcycle racer
1990 – Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer
1990 – Maurício Alves Peruchi, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1990 – Chris Sabburg, Australian cricketer
1991 – Luis Pedro Cavanda, Belgian footballer
1991 – Davide Santon, Italian footballer
1992 – Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
1993 – Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter
951 – Liu Chengyou, Emperor Yin of the Later Han
982 – Dětmar, first Bishop of Prague
1096 – William de St-Calais, Bishop of Durham and chief counsellor of William II of England
1169 – Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)
1184 – Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria, daughter of Andronikos Komnenos
1470 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
1512 – Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460)
1514 – William Smyth, English bishop and academic (b. 1460)
1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter and educator (b. 1494)
1664 – Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (b. 1588)
1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1688)
1849 – Micanopy, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
1861 – Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
1892 – George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
1904 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
1913 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
1915 – Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
1917 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
1920 – Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
1937 – Ross Alexander, American stage and film actor (b. 1907)
1939 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
1946 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (b. 1870)
1950 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
1951 – William Campion, English colonel and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1953 – Guccio Gucci, Italian businessman and fashion designer, founded Gucci (b. 1881)
1959 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American author (b. 1880)
1960 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
1963 – Dick Powell, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1904)
1963 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (b. 1910)
1968 – Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer (b. 1913)
1974 – Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 – Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)
1983 – Dick Emery, English comedian and actor (b. 1915)
1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (b. 1899)
1989 – Safdar Hashmi, Indian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1954)
1990 – Alan Hale, Jr., American film and television actor (b. 1921)
1990 – Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence (b. 1910)
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician; 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914)
1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French lawyer and businessman (b. 1915)
1995 – Siad Barre, Somalian general and politician; 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
1995 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
1996 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and author (b. 1915)
1999 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (b. 1910)
1999 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 – Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
2000 – Patrick O'Brian, English author and translator (b. 1914)
2001 – William P. Rogers, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
2005 – Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator and painter (b. 1922)
2005 – Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist and physician (b. 1911)
2006 – Osa Massen, Danish-American actress (b. 1914)
2006 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1913)
2007 – A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951)
2007 – Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian and author (b. 1941)
2007 – Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2007 – David Perkins, American geneticist and academic (b. 1919)
2007 – Robert C. Solomon, American philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1942)
2008 – George MacDonald Fraser, Scottish journalist and author (b. 1925)
2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, American sailor, academic, and politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
2009 – Inger Christensen, Danish poet and author (b. 1935)
2010 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (b. 1958)
2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
2011 – Bali Ram Bhagat, Indian politician; 16th Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1922)
2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
2012 – Gordon Hirabayashi, American-Canadian sociologist and academic (b. 1918)
2012 – Larry Reinhardt, American guitarist (b. 1948)
2012 – Silvana Gallardo, American actress and producer (b. 1953)
2012 – William P. Carey, American businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930)
2012 – Yoshiro Hayashi, Japanese golfer (b. 1922)
2013 – Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (b. 1944)
2014 – Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)
2014 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2014 – Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1953)
2014 – Michael J. Matthews, American lawyer and politician; 34th Mayor of Atlantic City (b. 1934)
2014 – Jay Traynor, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
2015 – Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (b. 1932)
2015 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929)
2016 – Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader (b. 1959)
2016 – Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
2016 – Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935)
2017 – John Berger, English art critic and painter (b. 1926)
2017 – Albert Brewer, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971) (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
Ancestry Day (Haiti)
Berchtold's Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace)
Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Christian feast day:
Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England)
Defendens of Thebes
Earliest day on which the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus is observed, while January 5 is the latest; celebrated on Sunday between January 2 and 5. (Roman Catholic Church)
Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholic Church)
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (Lutheran Church)
Macarius of Alexandria
Seraphim of Sarov (repose)
Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (Episcopal Church)
January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics))
Nyinlong (Bhutan)
The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7. (southern Colombia)
The first day of the Carnival of Riosucio, celebrated until January 8 every 2 years. (Riosucio)
The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
The second day of New Year (a holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine):
New Year Holiday (Scotland), if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3
Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa)
National Creampuff Day (United States)
Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)
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