On This Day = January 2

Bithdays + Events + Holidays + Observances

CHRISTOPHER DURANG + WILLIAM HAINES

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 U.S. speed limit to 55 mph to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

• 1975 = The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the US Congress.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• National Science Fiction Day