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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
– More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
– S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
– The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
– Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
– EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
– Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place.
– Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
– Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
– Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
Who Were Born On ?
– Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress
– Noah Cyrus, American actress
– Theo Diconu,footballer
– Morgan Lily, American actress
– Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
– Princess Purnika of Nepal
– Maya Bond, Japanese/American singer-songwriter and drummer
– Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón, Spanish royalty
– Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan
– Frankie Jonas, American actor