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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
– The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
– The U.S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
– Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
– For the first time in the military history, a civilian target was attacked by chemical weapons when Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in rwo separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas.
– The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
– Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
– Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
– Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
Who Were Born On ?
– Shane Long, Irish footballer
– Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
– Buster Posey, American baseball player
– Jay Bruce, American baseball player
– Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
– Miriam McDonald, Canadian actress
– Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma, Spanish footballer
– Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player
– Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
– Éderzito António Macedo Lopes, Guinea-Bissaun footballer