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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
– Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
– The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
– Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
– French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.
– Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People’s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
– Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.
– The Skye Bridge is opened.
– Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
– In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
Who Were Born On ?
– Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
– Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor
– Kanon Fukuda, Japanese singer
– Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
– Taylor Atelian, American actress
– Troye Sivan, South African/Australian actor and singer
– Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
– Slade Pearce, American actor
– Zhenwei Wang, Chinese actor and martial artist
– Cooper Pillot, American actor