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Events on January 2

• 1492 With the handover of Granada from Emir Boabdil to the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in fulfilment of the Treaty of November 1491, Moorish rule on the Iberian Peninsula ends and the Reconquista is successfully completed.
• 1678 The opera house at Gänsemarkt in Hamburg is inaugurated with the sacred opera Adam and Eve by Johann Theile. The Hamburg State Opera later develops out of the first and most important civic theatre in the German-speaking world. The first Hamburg theatre dispute accompanies the opening.
• 1843 The opera The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner is premiered in Dresden with moderate success. It is taken off the schedule again after only four performances.
• 1909 In Berlin, the German Imperial Post introduces cashless payment transactions by means of postal cheques.
• 1945 Nuremberg is largely destroyed in an Allied air raid during the Second World War. Above all, the historically valuable old town is practically razed to the ground.
• 1955 The quiz show What Am I? with Robert Lembke is broadcast for the first time on German television.
• 1956 With around 1,000 volunteers, the first three sites of the newly established Bundeswehr in Germany are put into operation.
• 1959 The Soviet space probe Luna 1 launches towards the Moon. It is the first probe to overcome Earth’s gravitational field.
• 1972 In the 18th episode of Loriot’s Cartoon series, his animated film “On the Racetrack” and his sketch “The Astronaut” are shown for the first time.
• 1978 Tagesthemen is broadcast on ARD for the first time. It replaces the late edition of Tagesschau.
• 1984 The private broadcaster RTL plus begins broadcasting from Luxembourg.
• 2010 The world’s only mixed operation of conventional and automatic subway service in Nuremberg is converted entirely to automatic operation.

Born on January 2

• 1870 Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, writer, poet, draughtsman and graphic artist
• 1893 Ernst Marischka, Austrian film director
• 1903 Tanaka Kane, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest living person from 2018–2022
• 1920 Isaac Asimov, American biochemist, physician and science-fiction writer
• 1941 Johannes Gerster, German politician
• 1961 Neil Dudgeon, British actor
• 1961 Ingo Lenßen, German lawyer and actor
• 1970 Andreas Wecker, German artistic gymnast
• 1981 Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
• 1990 Géraldine Raths, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „2. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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