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Historical Event(s)
– Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
– Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
– The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
– American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
– A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
– Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. Although some passengers only receive minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas’s history since 1960.
– Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
– Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
Who Were Born On ?
– Marc Yu, American musician
– Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress
– Tatum McCann, American actress
– Nathan Chen, American figure skater
– Cameron Boyce, American child actor
– Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Danish royalty
– Kali Majors, American actress
– Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
– Bailee Madison, American child actress
– Bryce Robinson, American actor