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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Ox in Chinese astrology.
– The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
– Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
– Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he will not be released until 1991).
– Rembrandt’s painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
– STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
– Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
– Vice President George H.W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
– The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
– PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
Who Were Born On ?
– Hrvoje Čale, Croatian footballer
– Jeísa Chiminazzo, Brazilian model
– Byron Schammer, Australian rules footballer
– Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
– Laurent Koscielny, French footballer
– Revazi Zintiridis, Greek judoka
– Wayne Rooney, English footballer
– Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
– Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player