What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 2002?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 2002 falls in the year of the Metal Snake.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 2002?

On January 1, 2002 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.

A Tuesday

Born on January 1, 2002?

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📅 Weekday
Tuesday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐍 Chinese zodiac
Metal Snake
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
24 years

Famous people born on January 1, 2002

Hatice Akbaş

Turkish boxer (born 2002)

Simon Adingra

Ivorian association football player (born 2002)

Tusse

Swedish singer (born 2002)

Alireza Mohmadi

Iranian amateur wrestler

Ayakha Melithafa

South African environmental activist

Santeri Väänänen

Finnish footballer

Rahim Alhassane

Nigerien footballer

Chiara Sacchi

Argentinian climate activist

Bernard Kamungo

Tanzanian-American soccer player

Somaya Faruqi

Afghanistan robotics expert

Hadiqa Bashir

Pakistani advocating for ending child marriage

Fawzia Amin Sido

Iraqi Yazidi kidnapping victim of ISIS

What happened that day

The Euro is introduced as the official physical currency in the Eurozone countries. The first physical transactions are carried out on Réunion. The former currencies of all the countries that use the Euro cease to be legal tender on February 28.

Also that week

The Boston Globe publishes results of an investigation leading to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and bringing widespread attention to the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

How You Remind Me

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🎵 No. 1 song

January 1, 2002 was a Tuesday. Someone born on January 1, 2002 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 2002 is 24 years old today and has lived about 9,074 days. People born in 2002 belong to Generation Z.

Also born on January 1

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Alexander VI
1431 · pope of the Catholic Church – from the Borgia family
Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist
Huldrych Zwingli
1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder
Hong Xiuquan
1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion
Sándor Petőfi
1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
George Washington Carver
1864 · African American botanist and inventor
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
Ousmane Sembène
1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author

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Questions about January 1, 2002

What day of the week was January 1, 2002?: January 1, 2002 was a Tuesday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 2002?: Someone born on January 1, 2002 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 2002?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 2002 falls in the year of the Metal Snake.
How old is someone born on January 1, 2002?: Someone born on January 1, 2002 is 24 years old today and has lived about 9,074 days.
Which generation is someone born in 2002?: People born in 2002 belong to Generation Z.
What is the birthstone for January?: The birthstone for January is garnet.
What was the moon phase on January 1, 2002?: On January 1, 2002 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.

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