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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 2
- 90th: 1934 - First state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania.
- 90th: 1934 - Donald Bradman scores 253 New South Wales versus Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes.
- 80th: 1944 - First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Ludmila Borozna in the USSR; volleyball player (Olympics-gold-1972).
- 60th: 1964 - Ayub Khan elected President of Pakistan.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Pernell Whitaker; boxer (Olympics-gold).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Rumesh Ratnayake; cricket player (Sri Lankan pacer in 23 Tests 1983-92).
- 60th: 1964 - Failed assassination attempt on President Nkrumah of Ghana.
- 50th: 1974 - 55 MPH automobile speed limit imposed by US President Richard Nixon.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Juha Lind; NHL forward (Team Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998, Dallas Stars).
- 50th: 1974 - Death Woodward Maurice Ritter AKA Tex Ritter of a heart attack at age 67; country singer (theme song to High Noon movie (1952), disk jockey (Nashville radio).
- 50th: 1974 - Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres.
- 40th: 1984 - Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his first first-class cricket century.
- 40th: 1984 - Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship.
- 40th: 1984 - Riot in Tunis kills over 100.
- 30th: 1994 - Battles between army and rebellious Indians in South Mexico; 57 dead.
- 30th: 1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at age 79.
- 30th: 1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of International Monetary Fund (1963-73), dies at age 81.
- 30th: 1994 - Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at age 81.
- 25th: 1999 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (487 mm) at Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, temperatures plunge to -13 degrees F (-25 degrees C), and 68 deaths are reported.
- 25th: 1999 - In Sichuan, China, a magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurs.
- 20th: 2004 - The Central Bank of Suriname changes banknote denomination from gulden to Suriname dollar. Exchange rate is 1000 gulden to 1 dollar.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Paul Hopkins, reported to be the oldest living former Major League Baseball player (born 1904).
- 15th: 2009 - The first commercial flight between Western Europe and Baghdad in at least 17 years lands in Iraq from Denmark.
- 15th: 2009 - Sri Lanka's military seizes control of Kilinochchi, the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital.
- 15th: 2009 - Maria de Jesus, believed to be the world's oldest living person, dies at age 115 in Tomar, Portugal.
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