Talk:January 2

This article is part of WikiProject Days of the Year, a Wikiproject dedicated to improving and maintaining the style guide for date pages.

This box: view • talk • edit

Selected anniversaries for this day

Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before editing this box.

366 – The Alamanni, an alliance of west Germanic tribes, crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers to invade the Roman Empire.
533 – Mercurius became Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a regnal name upon elevation to the papacy.
1492 – The Reconquista: The Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, expelled Abu 'abd-Allah Muhammad XII of Granada, the last of the Moorish rulers, from the Iberian Peninsula.
1942 – In the largest espionage case in United States history, 33 members of a German spy ring led by former South African Boer soldier and adventurer Fritz Joubert Duquesne (pictured) were convicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1959 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 1 (illustrated by model), the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon, was launched by the Vostok rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.

Archive – By email – More anniversaries...