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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
– A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
– President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire”.
– American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
– Aberdeen F.C. defeat Real Madrid 2-1 to win the European Cup Winners’ Cup in Gothenburg, Sweden.
– A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
– The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group. In the subsequent riots of Black July, about 1,000 Tamils are slaughtered, some 400,000 Tamils flee to neighbouring Tamil Nadu, India and many find refuge in Europe and Canada.
– Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
– Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
– Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
Who Were Born On ?
– Adrian Sutil, German racing driver
– Jerome Harrison, American football player
– J.P. Howell, American baseball player
– Jay Cutler, American football player
– Adam Lind, American baseball player
– Ninet Tayeb, Israeli singer
– Maor Melikson, Israeli footballer
– Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
– Harry Lloyd, English actor
– Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress