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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader.
– Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the building.
– A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike.
– Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
– Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
– Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
– Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
– Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
– The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines.
Who Were Born On ?
– Kevin Boss, American football player
– Liam Messam, New Zealand rugby player
– Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
– Dean Leacock, English football player
– Sunil Chetri, Indian footballer
– Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
– Annabelle Wallis, English actress
– Naima Adedapo, American Idol season 10 finalist
– Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
– Leroy Lita, English footballer