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Replaying Monday, January 2, 1978

The January 2, 1978 was a Monday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 1 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.

If you were born on this day, you are 48 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 2, 2026, 180 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 2, 2027, in 184 days. You have lived for 17,712 days, or about 425,090 hours, or about 25,505,411 minutes, or about 1,530,324,660 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

Isaac Asimov (autobiographer, biochemist, journalist, non-fiction writer, novelist, prosaist, science fiction writer, science writer, scientist, screenwriter, university teacher, writer, born January 2, 1920)
Dax Shepard (actor, film actor, film director, film editor, screenwriter, television actor, television presenter, voice actor, born January 2, 1975)
Cuba Gooding Jr. (comedian, film actor, film director, film producer, stage actor, television actor, born January 2, 1968)
Ng Man-tat (comedian, film actor, television actor, born January 2, 1952)
Kate Bosworth (actor, film actor, model, television actor, born January 2, 1983)
Tommy Morrison (actor, boxer, born January 2, 1969)
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (poet, sovereign, writer, born December 26, 1194)
Jim Bakker (televangelist, born January 2, 1940)
Tia Carrere (actor, film actor, film producer, model, singer, television actor, voice actor, born January 2, 1967)
Thérèse of Lisieux (discalced carmelite nun, playwright, theologian, writer, born January 2, 1873)
Mehmed IV (Sultan, ruler, born January 2, 1642)
Taye Diggs (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born January 2, 1971)
Yutaka Takenouchi (actor, model, television actor, born January 2, 1971)
Ben Hardy (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born January 2, 1991)
Jagmeet Singh (lawyer, politician, born January 2, 1979)
Josh Taylor (boxer, born January 2, 1991)
Paz Vega (film actor, model, born January 2, 1976)
Ali Fazal (actor, model, stage actor, born January 2, 1987)
Daisaku Ikeda (philosopher, poet, writer, born January 2, 1928)
Ruth Gemmell (actor, film actor, born January 2, 1967)
Barry Goldwater (aircraft pilot, businessperson, military officer, photographer, politician, born January 2, 1909)
Siobhan Finneran (actor, film actor, born January 2, 1966)
Renée Elise Goldsberry (actor, film actor, singer, songwriter, stage actor, television actor, born January 2, 1971)
Naoki Urasawa (guitarist, mangaka, radio personality, songwriter, born January 2, 1960)
Nadia Nadim (association football player, surgeon, born January 2, 1988)
Anthony Carrigan (actor, television actor, born January 2, 1983)
Christy Turlington (film director, model, born January 2, 1969)
Vyacheslav Ivankov (criminal authority, thief in law, born January 2, 1940)
Oleg Deripaska (businessperson, entrepreneur, investor, patron of the arts, philanthropist, physicist, born January 2, 1968)
Shelley Hennig (actor, beauty pageant contestant, dancer, film actor, model, television actor, born January 2, 1987)
Slobodan Praljak (businessperson, engineer, film director, military personnel, politician, born January 2, 1945)
Masahiko Tsugawa (actor, child actor, critic, film director, born January 2, 1940)
Peter Gadiot (actor, film actor, television actor, born January 2, 1986)
Renata Notni (actor, scientific model, television actor, born January 2, 1995)
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (military officer, born January 2, 1784)
Megumi Toyoguchi (seiyū, born January 2, 1978)
Dennis Hastert (businessperson, coach, lobbyist, politician, teacher, born January 2, 1942)
Osman III (ruler, born January 2, 1699)
Maxi Rodríguez (association football player, born January 2, 1981)
Barış Manço (composer, musician, singer, songwriter, television producer, born January 2, 1943)
Yoon Se-ah (actor, film actor, born January 2, 1978)
Jack Hanna (zoologist, born January 2, 1947)
Jasmine Borrero Tookes (actor, model, born January 2, 1991)
Santo Versace (entrepreneur, politician, born January 2, 1945)
Gabrielle Carteris (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born January 2, 1961)
Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (diplomat, politician, born January 2, 1940)
Danny Miller (actor, film actor, television actor, born January 2, 1991)
Roger Miller (actor, composer, lyricist, musician, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, born January 2, 1936)
Beate Zschäpe (terrorist, born January 2, 1975)
Loïc Rémy (association football player, born January 2, 1987)

2nd of January 1978 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on January 2, 1978

Bad Weather Prevents Departure Of Banned Editor From Lesotho

Date: 03 January 1978

Bad weather prevents Woods from leaving Usotho (S)

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South African Editor Who Fled Says He May Settle in the U.S.; Feels Wonderful, He Says

Date: 02 January 1978

By JOHN F. BURNS Special to The New York Times

John BURNS

Woods is considering settling in US while he awaits pol upheaval that he considers likely in S Africa; says immediate concern is to arrange journey to Britain; illus (M)

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CORRECTION

Date: 02 January 1978

Correction on Dec 30 story on ownership of Miami News; Cox Enterprises is owner (S)

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Soviet Press Deals Gingerly With Visit By Carter to Poland

Date: 02 January 1978

Special to The New York Times

Soviet press says Pres Carter's talks with Polish leaders were mainly about Soviet-Amer relations and not at all about human rights or issue of Polish independence from Moscow; Pravda repts on conclusion of Carter's visit by quoting from speech by Edward Gierek in support of detente and nuclear disarmament; Tass says Carter 'bypassed in silence' question of nuclear disarmament, and accuses Carter of supporting neutron bomb production (S)

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