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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.
– An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
– Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops kill 70–90 Azerbaijani civilians in the village of Qaradağlı.
– Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
– India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
– Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
– An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
– Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
– Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox – The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.
– The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
Who Were Born On ?
– Ariel Winter, American actress (Modern Family)
– Zachary Gordon, American actor
– Ariel Waller, Canadian actress
– Coy Stewart, American actor
– Jaden Smith, American actor
– Haley Pullos, American actress
– Madison Pettis, American actress
– Khamani Griffin, American actor
– China Anne McClain, American actress
– Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer