January 2

See also: Category: Holidays January 2

National

•   Switzerland - St. Berthold's Day
•   Haiti - Ancestral Day

Religious

  Catholicism

- memory of St. Basil ;

- memory of Gregory the Theologian ;

- memory of blessed Catherine of Bressuire ;

- memory of St. Defendance of Thebaid ;

- the memory of the monk Makarios of Alexandria .

  Orthodoxy ^{[2] [3]}

- the pre-celebration of the Nativity of Christ ;

- memory of the holy martyr Ignatius the God-bearer (Antioch) (107);

- memory of the righteous archpriest John of Kronstadt, the miracle worker (1908);

- memory of the Monk Archimandrite Ignatius of Pechersky (1435);

- memory of St. Anthony (Smirnitsky) , Archbishop of Voronezh (1846);

- memory of St. Philogonius , Bishop of Antioch (323);

- memory of St. Archbishop Daniel of Serbia (1338);

- memory of the holy martyr Nikolai Chernyshev and the martyr Barbara Chernysheva (1919) ^[4] ;

- celebration in honor of the Novodvorsk icon of the Mother of God;

- a celebration in honor of the Lenkovskaya (Novgorod-Seversky) icon of the Mother of God, called the "Savior of the drowning."

Name Day

• Catholic: Vasily , Gregory , Defense, Catherine , Macarius
• Orthodox: Anthony , Daniel , Ivan , Ignatius , Philogony

See also: Category: January 2 events

Until the 19th century

• 69 - the legions of Aulus Vitellius were proclaimed emperor by the Roman legions in Upper Germany.
• 533 - intronization of Pope John II (Mercury) - the first Pope who changed his name, ascending the throne.
• 1547 - Attempted rebellion of Fieschi in Genoa .
• 1649 - Cossack army B. Khmelnitsky returned to Kiev after a campaign in Western Ukraine.

• 1703 - the first Russian printed newspaper Vedomosti was published ( according to other sources, December 16, 1702 ).
• 1757 - The United Kingdom captured Calcutta , India .
• 1788 - Georgia became the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution .

XIX century

• 1813 - in an order for the army, M. Kutuzov congratulated the troops on the expulsion of the enemy from Russia.
• 1835 - the first secular school in Bulgaria was opened in Gabrov .
• 1839 - Louis Daguerre made the first photograph of the moon .
• 1843 - in Dresden , in the Dresden Court Opera , the first production of Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman took place ^[5] .

• 1874 - Spanish Cortes forced President Castellar to resign.
• 1899 - Apolinario Mabini became Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Philippines .

XX century

• 1905
  • The defense of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War ended, the city was surrendered to Japan by the commandant General A. M. Stessel .
  • In the harbor of Port Arthur flooded the battleship Sevastopol .
• 1910 - in Moscow for the first time held a competition of flying aircraft models .
• 1915 - during the Sarykamysh battle , Russian troops occupied the Turkish fortress of Bardus.
• 1916 - The Russian Botanical Society was founded ^[6] .
• 1919
  • Polish legionnaires seized power in Vilnius .
  • The uprising of workers in Riga .
  • Polish gendarmes shot the members of the Soviet Red Cross mission headed by Bronislaw Wesolowski who arrived in Warsaw .
• 1920 - a resolution was issued by the Council of Workers 'and Peasants' Defense to abolish provincial and district revolutionary committees.
• 1921
  • The Communist Party of Luxembourg was founded.
  • All the halls of the Hermitage art gallery (Leningrad) are open.
• 1922 - Ankara signed an agreement between Turkey and the Ukrainian SSR .
• 1923 - The international conference of anarcho-syndicalists ended in Berlin .
• 1925 - The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region was formed as part of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic .
• 1942
  • During the Great Patriotic War, the Kerch-Feodosia landing operation was completed ; The operation was led by N. A. Basisty .
  • During the battle of Moscow , Maloyaroslavets was released.
  • Japanese troops occupied Manila ( Philippines ).
• 1943 - the retreat of German troops in the Caucasus began .
• 1947 - Sakhalin Oblast was formed (withdrawn from the Khabarovsk Territory ).
• 1949 - the city of Inaja , located in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco , is founded.
• 1956 - the first units of the regular army, the Bundeswehr, were created in Germany .
• 1959 - the first automatic interplanetary station Luna-1 was launched in the USSR .
• 1967
  • Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California .
  • US Air Force Operation Bolo , during which F-4 pilots destroy half of the North Vietnam Air Force MiG-21 aircraft
• 1992
  • Price liberalization , the beginning of radical economic reforms in Russia.
  • Opposition overthrew Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia .

See also: Category: Born on January 2

Until the 19th century

• 1656 - Franz Lefort (d. 1699 ), Russian statesman and military leader, admiral, associate of Peter I.
• 1798 - Fyodor Golubinsky (d. 1854 ), Russian theologian and church figure.

XIX century

• 1834
  • Vasily Perov (d. 1882 ), Russian painter- Wanderer .
  • (d. 1894 ), a German dog breeder who laid the foundation for the Dobermann Pinscher dog breed.
• 1837 - Mili Balakirev (d. 1910 ), Russian composer and musician, leader of the mighty group.
• 1865 - Heikki Paasonen (d. 1919 ), Finnish linguist, folklorist and ethnologist .
• 1870 - Ernst Barlach (d. 1938 ), German sculptor, artist and writer.
• 1871 - Nikolai Alexandrov (d. 1930 ), Russian Soviet actor, director and teacher.
• 1873 - Anton Pannekoek (d. 1960 ), a Dutch astronomer and socialist.
• 1880 - Vasily Degtyarev (d. 1949 ), Russian and Soviet designer of small arms .
• 1894 - Mikhail Kedrov (d. 1972 ), theater director, actor, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1896 - Dziga Vertov (at birth David Abelevich Kaufman ) (d. 1954 ), Soviet documentary filmmaker.

XX century

• 1905 - Vasily Chkhaidze (d. 1986 ), theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR.
• 1905 - Luigi Zampa (d. 1991 ), Italian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.
• 1912 - Renato Guttuso (d. 1987 ), Italian painter and graphic artist.
• 1918 - Andrei Goncharov (d. 2001 ), theater director, teacher, publicist, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1920 - Isaac Asimov (d. 1992 ), American science fiction writer.
• 1921 - Evgenia Khanayeva (d. 1987 ), theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1925 - Irina Arkhipova (d. 2010 ), opera singer, teacher, public figure, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1927 - Yuri Grigorovich , ballet dancer, choreographer, choreographer, teacher, people's artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 1928 - Oscar Rabin (d. 2018 ), Russian and French artist.
• 1937
  • Marietta Chudakova , Russian literary critic and writer.
  • Victor Ilchenko (d. 1992 ), entertainer, honored artist of the RSFSR (1990).
• 1938 - Hans Herbjørnsrud , Norwegian writer.
• 1947
  • Alexander Tikhonov , Soviet biathlete , 4-time Olympic champion, 11-time world champion.
  • Alexander Yakushev , Soviet hockey player, two-time Olympic champion, 7-time world champion, in 1998-2000. head coach of the hockey team of Russia.
• 1949 - Oleg Sheintsis (d. 2006 ), theater artist, people's artist of Russia.
• 1953 - Vitaly Tretyakov , Russian journalist, political scientist, TV presenter.
• 1963
  • Sergey Zhigunov , film actor and producer, Honored Artist of Russia.
  • Oleg Znarok , hockey player, head coach of the Russian national hockey team, world champion (2014).
  • Oleg Deripaska , Russian entrepreneur, billionaire.
• 1966 - Oleg Wiedemann , opera singer, soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera House, Honored Artist of Russia .
• 1967 - Tia Carrere , American actress and singer.
• 1968 - Kyuuba Gooding Jr. , American actor, Academy Award winner.
• 1969 - Christy Turlington , American supermodel.
• 1970 - Inna Gomez , Russian actress and fashion model.
• 1975 - Yana Rudkovskaya , Russian television presenter and music producer.
• 1983 - Kate Bosworth , American actress and fashion model.
• 1993 - Aglaya Shilovskaya , Russian actress and singer.

See also: Category: Dead on January 2

Until the 19th century

• 1547 - Gian Luigi Fieschi (b. 1522 ), organizer of the Fieschi conspiracy in Genoa.
• 1554 - Juan Manuel (b. 1537 ), infante of Portugal, father of King Sebastian I.
• 1557 - Pontormo (real name Jacopo Carucci ; p. 1494 ), Italian painter, one of the founders of mannerism .

XIX century

• 1801 - Johann Caspar Lafater (b. 1741 ), Swiss writer, theologian and poet.
• 1831 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr (b. 1776 ), German historian of antiquity, founder of the critical method in the study of history.
• 1835 - Vasily Berkh (b. 1780 ), military historian, member of the first Russian round-the-world expedition (1803-1806).
• 1857 - Andrew Ure (b. 1778 ), Scottish economist and chemist.
• 1861 - Frederick William IV (b. 1795 ), King of Prussia (from 1840) from the Hohenzollern dynasty.
• 1879 - Caleb Cushing (b. 1800 ), American statesman.
• 1892 - George Biddel Airy (b. 1801 ), English mathematician and astronomer.

XX century

• 1904
  • James Longstreet (b. 1821 ), General of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War .
  • Peter Jurgenson (b. 1836 ), Russian music publisher.
• 1909 - John of Kronstadt (b. 1829 ), Holy Russian Orthodox Church .
• 1913 - Leon Philippe Theiseren de Bor (b. 1855 ), French meteorologist, one of the discoverers of the stratosphere .
• 1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky (b. 1850 ), Russian playwright, librettist, music critic, younger brother of P.I. Tchaikovsky .
• 1917 - Edward Burnett Taylor (b. 1832 ), English ethnologist and culturologist.
• 1921 - Dmitry Chernov (b. 1839 ), Russian metallurgist and inventor.
• 1939 - Roman Dmowski (b. 1864 ), Polish politician and publicist.
• 1950 - Emil Jannings (b. 1884 ), German actor, first Oscar winner for Best Actor.
• 1954 - Vladimir Levkov (b. 1895 ), Soviet engineer, designer of the world's first hovercraft.
• 1973 - Francesca Gaal (b. 1904 ), Hungarian and American actress, star of pre-war cinema.
• 1984
  • Gabriel Schulz (b. 1903 ), Soviet sculptor, art critic, teacher.
  • Evgeny Krinov (b. 1906 ), Soviet astronomer and geologist.
• 1985 - Clarence John Laughlin (b. 1905 ), American Surrealist photographer.
• 1989 - Ilya Mazuruk (b. 1906 ), Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, major general of aviation.
• 1993 - Orest Vereisky (b. 1915 ), graphic artist, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1994 - Boris Vyatkin (born 1913 ), circus artist, clown, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 2000 - Elmo Russell Zumwalt (b. 1920 ), American admiral.

21st Century

• 2007 - Vadim Zakharchenko (b. 1929 ), Soviet and Russian actor, Honored Artist of Russia .
• 2009
  • Valentina Giovagnini (b. 1980 ), Italian singer.
  • Anatoly Gurevich (b. 1913 ), Soviet illegal intelligence officer, one of the leaders of the Red Chapel .
• 2011
  • Pete Postletway (b. 1945 ), an English film actor.
  • Anne Francis (b. 1930 ), American actress and model.
• 2017 - Victor Tsarev (b. 1931 ), Soviet football player, European champion (1960), coach.

Ignatius the God-Bearer .

• What Ignat is, such is the month of August .
• Women had to prepare the house for the holiday - to wash the floor, clean and tint.
• Young people formed Christmas camps for funny carols and everyone prepared various holiday equipment - Diduh, Spiders, Hedgehogs, and also learned the texts of Christmas carols. Christmas clothes were tidied up.
• If, to preserve the house , on January 1 it was supposed to bow to the ground, then on January 2 it was time to preserve the house: around the house (or the whole village or village at once), peasants surrounded the icons ^[7] .
• On this day, it was supposed to shake off the frost from the apple trees - for the harvest.
• We noticed that the stronger the frosts, the hotter the summer .
• Trees in hoarfrost - the sky will be blue ^[8] .