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January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) The Day after New Years Day is a Public Holiday in New Zealand [268] Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town, South Africa) [269] The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7 [270] The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity) [264]
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January 2: Feast day of Saint Basil of Caesarea and Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholicism, Anglicanism) Replica of Luna 1 1492 – The Granada War , the last part of the Reconquista , ended with the surrender of Muslim forces in Granada to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain .
January – The American Federation of Labor's National Committee for Modification of the Volstead Act is formed to work for the repeal of Prohibition in the United States. January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.
January 2 The first religious radio broadcast is heard, over station KDKA (AM) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The De Young Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. [2] January 21 – The full-length silent comedy-drama film The Kid, written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his Tramp character), with Jackie Coogan ...
The Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian splash on FBI confirmation that the truck, driven by a 42-year-old Texan man, was adorned with an Islamic State flag when it mowed down ...
January 2. Happy Mew Year for Cats Day. National Buffet Day. National Cream Puff Day. Motivation and Inspiration Day. National Pet Travel Safety Day. National Science Fiction Day. Swiss Cheese Day.
That figure stood at just under $36.2 trillion earlier in the week. President-elect Donald Trump is demanding that GOP lawmakers address the debt limit before he takes office on January 20.