2ND
JANUARY
FEAST DAY OF
"ST SERAPHIM OF SAROV; ST BASIL; ST
GREGORY NAZIANZEN; ST MUNCHIN; ST ADALHARD OR ADELARD; ST CASPAR OF BUFALO; ST
MACARIUS OF ALEXANDRIA; ST VINCENTIAN; & THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS." |
| 2ND |
533 |
"JOHN II" BEGINS HIS REIGN AS CATHOLIC POPE. |
| 2ND |
1839 |
FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER, "LOUIS
DAGUERRE" TOOK THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MOON. |
| 2ND |
1879 |
THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP ‘THUNDER’ EXPLODES IN
GULF OF ISMID, 9 DIED. |
| 2ND |
1900 |
FIRST ELECTRIC BUS IN NEW YORK. |
| 2ND |
1911 |
SOUTH AUSTRALIA RELINQUISHES CONTROL WHICH IT HAS HELD ON THE
NORTHERN TERRITORY SINCE 1863 TO THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT, IN RETURN FOR A COMMONWEALTH
FUNDED RAILWAY LINE FROM ADELAIDE TO DARWIN. |
| 2ND |
1913 |
THE FIRST COMMONWEALTH POSTAGE STAMP IS
ISSUED IN AUSTRALIA. |
| 2ND |
1935 |
THE TRIAL OF "BRUNO R. HAUPTMANN" BEGINS FOR THE
KIDNAP-MURDER OF "CHARLES LINDBERGH’S" BABY SON. |
| 2ND |
1938 |
THE U.S. BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY,
"SIMON & SCHUSTER" WAS FOUNDED. |
| 2ND |
1946 |
"KING ZOG" OF ALBANIA, WHO HAD BEEN LIVING IN
ENGLAND SINCE 1939, WAS DEPOSED. |
| 2ND |
1954 |
"POPE PIUS XII" WARNS THAT
TELEVISION CAN DAMAGE FAMILY LIFE. |
| 2ND |
1968 |
"CHRISTIAN BARNARD" PERFORMS HIS SECOND HEART
TRANSPLANT OPERATION. |
| 2ND |
1955 |
TWO KILLED AS "BLACK SUNDAY",
BUSHFIRES RAGE THROUGH MUCH OF ADELAIDE HILLS AND COUNTRYSIDE. |
| 2ND |
1959 |
THE FIRST ROCKET TO PASS NEAR THE MOON, THE RUSSIAN UN-CREWED
SPACECRAFT ‘LUNA I’ WAS LAUNCHED. |
| 2ND |
1968 |
FILM DIRECTOR, "ROMAN
POLANSKI," MARRIES ACTRESS, "SHARON TATE." |
| 2ND |
1971 |
66 SPECTATORS ARE KILLED WHEN A BARRIER WALL COLLAPSES DURING
A SOCCER MATCH AT IBROX PARK IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. |
| 2ND |
1975 |
FILM STAR "CHARLIE CHAPLIN"
IS KNIGHTED IN THE QUEEN’S NEW YEARS HONOURS. |
| 2ND |
1979 |
THE TRIAL OF "SEX PISTOLS" SINGER, "SID
VICIOUS" ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS GIRLFRIEND, "NANCY SPUNGEN" BEGAN IN NEW
YORK. |
| 2ND |
1987 |
"ENID BLYTON’S"
"NODDY BOOKS" ARE RE-ISSUED NOW BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT.GNOMES ARE IN,
GOLLIWOGS ARE OUT. |
| 2ND |
1998 |
AUTOPSY OF "CHRIS FARLEY" SHOWS HE OVERDOSED ON
OPIATES & COCAINE. |
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