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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.
– Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
– India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
– 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.
– Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
– Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
– Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
– 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.
– Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament.
Who Were Born On ?
– Zachary Gordon, American actor
– Brendon Baerg, American actor
– Elle Fanning, American actress
– Ariel Waller, Canadian actress
– Jaden Smith, American actor
– Bindi Irwin, Australian entertainer
– Rico Rodriguez II, American child actor
– Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer
– Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
– G. Hannelius, American child actress