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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
– The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
– The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
– Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
– Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
– George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to “get dirt” on Dave Winfield.
– The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
– Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
– The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web.
Who Were Born On ?
– Maria-Elena Papasotiriou, Greek-American figure skater
– Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer
– Alex Smithies, English footballer
– Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler
– Jourdan Dunn, British fashion model
– Zac Fox, British actor
– Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
– Doug Brochu, American actor
– Seungri, Korean singer