Events & Holidays In January - 02

2nd New Year's Day Holiday (Russia)

Ancestry Day / Forefather's Day (Haiti)

Bank Holiday (Scotland United Kingdom)

Berchtold's Day (Liechtenstein Switzerland)

Bridge Day (New Caledonia)

Kaapse Klopse (South Africa)

Labor Day (Ukraine)

New Year's Day 2nd Day (Romania Taiwan)

New Year's Day Holiday (Mauritius New Zealand North Korea South Korea)

Victory of the Armed Forces (Cuba)

1642  Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.   

1647  Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) was born on this day in history.   

1699  Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.   

1713  On this day in history birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)   

1719  On this day in history birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)   

1727  On this day in history birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)   

1728  Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium was born on this day in history.   

1732  On this day in history birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer   

0017  Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies on this day in history.   

1512  On this day in history death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)   

1514  Death of William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) on this day in history.   

1557  On this day in history death of pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)   

1685  Death of Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) on this day in history.   

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on this day in history.   

1726  On this day in history domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37   

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.