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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
– First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
– Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
– The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
– Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
– A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
– Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
– Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world’s largest company.
– Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
Who Were Born On ?
– Marlene Lawston, American child actress
– Isabel Suckling, British Choirgirl
– Ryan Newman, American actress
– Coy Stewart, American actor
– Hollie Steel, English singer
– Haley Pullos, American actress
– Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer
– China Anne McClain, American actress
– Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
– Bradley Steven Perry, American child actor