On This Day = January 2
Bithdays + Events + Holidays + Observances
BIRTHDAYS
1857 = M. Carey Thomas = American educator and linguist 🌈
1870 = Tex Rickard = American boxing promoter and businessman
1900 = William Haines = American film actor and interior designer 🌈
1920 = Isaac Asimov = American writer and professor of biochemistry
1929 = Charles Beaumont = American writer 🌈
1936 = Roger Miller = American singer-songwriter
1938 = David Bailey = English photographer and painter[103]
1938 = Lynn Ann Conway = American scientist, engineer, and activist 🌈
1938 = Robert Smithson = American sculptor and photographer
1940 = Jim Bakker = American televangelist
1949 = Christopher Durang = American playwright 🌈
1961 = Gabrielle Carteris = American actor
1961 = Todd Haynes = American filmmaker 🌈
1967 = Tia Carrere = American actor
1968 = Cuba Gooding Jr. = American actor
1969 = Christy Turlington = American model
1971 = Taye Diggs = American actor and singer
1975 = Dax Shepard = American actor
1983 = Anthony Carrigan = American actor
1983 = Kate Bosworth = American actor
1991 = Ben Hardy = English actor
EVENTS
1843 = Richard Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) premieres in Dresden, Germany.
1947 = Mahatma Gandhi begins a march for peace in East Bengal.
1967 = Ronald Reagan, former film actor and future POTUS, is sworn in as Governor of California.
1974 = United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum speed limit to 55 mph to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
1975 = The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the US Congress.
