What Happened on January 2, 2018

• Bus crash in Pasamayo, Peru, kills 51 on notorious "Devil's Curve" road
• Storm Eleanor forms near Ireland then sweeps across the UK and Western Europe in next few days
• US senator Al Franken resigns

• WHO reveals it will classify gaming addiction as mental health condition in its next Classification of Diseases

• Rick Hall, American record producer, songwriter, and creator of the "Muscle Shoals sound" (FAME Studio), dies of prostate cancer at 85
• Thomas Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 90

Holidays: Day after New Year's Day (New Zealand), New Year Holiday (United Kingdom)

• #1 Song: Perfect - Ed Sheeran