January 2 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 World Introverts Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – National Motivation and Inspiration Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Pet Travel Safety Day.
🇮🇷 Iran – Mother’s Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Personal Trainers Day.
🇨🇺 Cuba – Victory Day.
🇭🇹 Haiti – Ancestors Day.
🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein – Berchtold Day.
🇳🇺 Niue – Takai Commission Holiday.
🇧🇹 Bhutan – Nyinlog.
🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis – Carnival Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1492 – Capture of Granada.
– 1547 – Luigi Fieschi attempted to seize power in Genoa.
– 1570 – The invasion of Novgorod by the army of Ivan the Terrible begins.
-1757 – The United Kingdom captures Calcutta.
– 1839 – Louis Daguerre takes the first photograph of the Moon.
– 1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at the French Academy of Sciences.
– 1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
– 1874 – The Spanish Cortes force President Castellar to resign.
– 1901 – Sigmund Freud writes “Vital Psychopathology”.
– 1905 – The defense of Port Arthur ends. The city is handed over to the Japanese.
– 1916 – The Russian Botanical Society is founded.
– 1919 – Polish legionnaires seize power in Vilnius
– 1919 – Workers’ uprising in Riga.
– 1921 – All the picture galleries of the Hermitage were opened.
– 1943 – The retreat of German troops from the Caucasus began.
– 1959 – The first interplanetary automatic station “Luna-1” was launched in the USSR.
– 1961 – The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba.
– 1992 – Price liberalization began in Russia.
– 1992 – Diplomatic relations were established between Uzbekistan and China.
– 1992 – Ecuador, Ethiopia, Laos, Nepal, Panama, Singapore recognized the sovereignty of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1992 – The opposition in Georgia seized power from President Gamsakhurdia.
– 1993 – The Republic of Uzbekistan became a member of the World Organization of Metrology (WO).
– 2020 – The Netherlands officially stops being called the Netherlands.
– 2022 – Protests break out in Kazakhstan over a sharp increase in the price of liquefied gas.
