What happend on 2nd January

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1974

Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.

1973

Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.

1971

The second Ibrox disaster occurred.

1967

Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful heart transplant.

1959

CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.

1959

The first artificial satellite to orbit the sun, Luna 1, was launched by the U.S.S.R.

1957

San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and Los Angeles Oil Exchange merge.

1955

Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated.

1949

Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

1946

Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II, King Zog abdicated but retained his claim to the throne.