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Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
Današnji imendani i blagdani na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
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Imendan imaju: Bazilije, Grgur
Povijesni događaji u Hrvatskoj na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
1875. godine, rođen je književnik August Šenoa.
Povijesni događaji na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
Povijesni događaji na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
- 69: The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
- 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.
- 1680: Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his bodyguards execute the rebel leader Trunajaya.
- 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, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
- 1818: The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president.
- 1865: Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
- 1900: American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
- 1900: Chicago Canal opens.
- 1920: The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
- 1921: World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové.
- 1941: World War II: The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
- 1942: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring.
- 1942: World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.
- 1949: Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
- 1954: India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
- 1955: Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
- 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, at the Battle of Ap Bac.
- 1967: Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is 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: At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
- 1975: The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
- 1976: The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
- 1978: On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
- 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.
- 1988: Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people.
- 1991: Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.
- 1993: Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
- 2004: Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
- 2019: Adventist Health System and its subsidiaries rebranded to AdventHealth.
- 2022: Massive nationwide protests and unrest break out in Kazakhstan over the sudden increase of liquefied petroleum gas prices, leaving over 200 people dead and thousands injured.
- 2024: Two aircraft collide on a runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, killing 5 and injuring 15.
Rođeni na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
Rođeni na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
- 869: Yōzei, Japanese emperor (d. 949)
- 1462: Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1522)
- 1509: Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (d. 1572)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1803: Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)
- 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: Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)
- 1836: Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
- 1837: Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)
- 1857: M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935)
- 1860: Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)
- 1860: William Corless Mills, American historian and curator (d. 1928)
- 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: Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)
- 1873: Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
- 1878: Jaakko Mäki, Finnish politician (d. 1938)
- 1878: Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (d. 1970)
- 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)
- 1889: Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
- 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)
- 1895: Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
- 1896: Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1954)
- 1896: Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer (d. 1982)
- 1897: Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian (d. 1965)
- 1900: Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (d. 1965)
- 1901: Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939)
- 1902: Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (d. 2007)
- 1903: Kane Tanaka, Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history (d. 2022)
- 1904: Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist (d. 1981)
- 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 politician, businessman, and author (d. 1998)
- 1913: Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist (d. 1992)
- 1913: Anna Lee, English-American actress (d. 2004)
- 1917: Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003)
- 1918: Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943)
- 1919: Ernest Bender, American Indologist (d. 1996)
- 1919: Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979)
- 1920 (probable): Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry (d. 1992)
- 1920: Bob Feerick, American basketball player and coach (d. 1976)
- 1921: Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1926: Gino Marchetti, American football player (d. 2019)
- 1928: Dan Rostenkowski, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1929: Charles Beaumont, screenwriter and American author of speculative fiction (d. 1967)
- 1929: Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland
- 1931: Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)
- 1934: John Hollowbread, English footballer, goalkeeper (d. 2007)
- 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 (d. 2024)
- 1938: Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (d. 1973)
- 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
- 1943: Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1944: Charlie Davis, Trinidadian cricketer
- 1944: Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 2024)
- 1944: Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 2021)
- 1947: Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author
- 1947: Calvin Hill, American football player
- 1947: David Shapiro, American poet, historian, and critic (d. 2024)
- 1948: Judith Miller, American journalist
- 1948: Deborah Watling, English actress (d. 2017)
- 1949: Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2024)
- 1949: Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)
- 1952: Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia
- 1952: Wendy Phillips, American actress
- 1954: Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and politician
- 1954: Évelyne Trouillot, Haitian playwright and author
- 1961: Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
- 1961: Paula Hamilton, English model
- 1961: Todd Haynes, American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- 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: Chris Welp, German-American basketball player (d. 2015)
- 1964: Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (d. 2019)
- 1965: Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
- 1967: Tia Carrere, American actress
- 1967: Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavík
- 1968: Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor and producer
- 1968: Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
- 1969: István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter
- 1969: William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and journalist
- 1969: Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1969: Christy Turlington, American model
- 1970: Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor
- 1971: Taye Diggs, American actor and singer
- 1971: Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress
- 1972: Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
- 1972: Shiraz Minwalla, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
- 1972: Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
- 1974: Ludmila Formanová, Czech runner
- 1974: Juha Lind, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1974: Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer
- 1975: Dax Shepard, American actor
- 1975: Jeff Suppan, American baseball player
- 1975: Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
- 1976: Paz Vega, Spanish actress
- 1977: Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1977: Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
- 1979: Jonathan Greening, English footballer
- 1980: David Gyasi, British actor
- 1981: Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
- 1981: Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
- 1983: Kate Bosworth, American actress
- 1983: Anthony Carrigan, American actor
- 1987: Shelley Hennig, American actress and model
- 1987: Robert Milsom, English footballer
- 1988: Luke Harangody, American basketball player
- 1988: Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
- 1991: Ben Hardy, English actor
- 1992: Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentine footballer
- 1992: Alexey Marchenko, Russian ice hockey player
- 1992: Teemu Pulkkinen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1992: Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
- 1993: Bryson Tiller, American singer and rapper
- 1994: Ronald Darby, American football player
- 1996: Jonah Bolden, Australian-American basketball player
- 1998: Tfue, American online streamer
- 1998: Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
- 1999: Georgios Kalaitzakis, Greek basketball player
- 1999: Fernando Tatís Jr., Dominican baseball player
- 2002: Spencer Arrighetti, American baseball player
Preminuli na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
Preminuli na datum: 2. siječanj 2025
- 951: Liu Chengyou, Emperor Yin of the Later Han (b. 931)
- 951: Su Fengji, Chinese official and chancellor
- 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
- 1298: Lodomer, Hungarian prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom
- 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)
- 1543: Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)
- 1557: Pontormo, Italian painter and educator (b. 1494)
- 1613: Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539)
- 1614: Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza, Spanish mystical poet and Catholic martyr (b. 1566)
- 1726: Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1688)
- 1763: John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
- 1850: Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (b. 1789)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1951: William Campion, English colonel and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
- 1951: Edith New, English militant suffragette (b. 1877)
- 1953: Guccio Gucci, Italian businessman and fashion designer, founder of Gucci (b. 1881)
- 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)
- 1974: Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1975: Siraj Sikder, Bangladesh revolutionary leader (b. 1944)
- 1977: Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)
- 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: Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1995: Siad Barre, Somalian general and politician; 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
- 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: Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist and physician (b. 1911)
- 2006: Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1913)
- 2006: Osa Massen, Danish-American actress (b. 1914)
- 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)
- 2008: George MacDonald Fraser, Scottish journalist and author (b. 1925)
- 2008: Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician, 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: Silvana Gallardo, American actress and producer (b. 1953)
- 2012: William P. Carey, American businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930)
- 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)
- 2015: Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929)
- 2016: Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
- 2016: Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935)
- 2016: Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader (b. 1959)
- 2016: Gisela Mota Ocampo, mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Mexico, assassinated (b. 1982)
- 2017: Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (b. 1933)
- 2017: John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (b. 1926)
- 2018: Guida Maria, Portuguese actress (b. 1950)
- 2018: Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1927)
- 2019: Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942)
- 2019: Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
- 2019: Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (b. 1942)
- 2022: Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician (b. 1944)
- 2023: Ken Block, American rally driver (b. 1967)
- 2024: Rizal Ramli, Indonesian politician (b. 1954)