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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.
– Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
– The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
– The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
– United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
– Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
– The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
– Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps, were free to leave for West Germany.
– Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army nonpermanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
Who Were Born On ?
– Evan Bates, American ice dancer
– Joe Haden, American football player
– Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
– Jasper Cillessen, Dutch footballer
– Katie Hoff, American swimmer
– Mustapha Carayol, Gambian/English footballer
– Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
– Jascha Washington, American actor
– Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
– Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper.