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Historical Event(s)
– 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
– The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Standard of the President of Russia is established.
– Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
– Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
– Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
– Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
– the Nordhordland Bridge was opened across the Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, Norway. It has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden.
– First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
Who Were Born On ?
– Dakota Fanning, American actress
– Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
– Liliana Mumy, American actress
– Alexander Gould, American actor
– Tom Daley, English diver and Olympian
– Cayden Boyd, American actor
– Camilla Rosso, English actress
– Krystal Jung, American-born Korean singer
– Emma Lockhart, American actress
– Nat Wolff, American singer and actor