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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
– Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname due to pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
– United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
– Burma’s ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
– A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
– Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
– David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.
– In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
– 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
– Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alex D. Linz, American actor
– Carl Magnay, British footballer
– Emma Miskew, Canadian curler
– Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician
– Daniella Monet, American actress
– Chelsie Hightower, American professional dancer (Dancing with the Stars, former So You Think You Can Dance contestant)
– Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
– Mathieu Manset, French footballer
– Bill Kaulitz, German singer
– Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper.