Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 2
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January 2: Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Roman Catholic Church)
- 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.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1833 – Two British naval vessels arrived at the Falkland Islands to re-assert British sovereignty there.
- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Siege of Port Arthur ended when the Russian fleet surrendered to Japanese forces at Port Arthur, a deep-water port and Russian naval base in present-day Lüshunkou, China.
- 1942 – In the largest espionage case in American history, over 30 members of a German spy ring led by former South African Boer soldier and adventurer Fritz Joubert Duquesne (pictured) were convicted following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.