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Historical Event(s)
– Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
– Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Over two hundred thousand people marched in Caracas towards the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chavez. 19 of the protesters are killed, and the Minister of Defense Gral. Lucas Rincon announced Hugo Chavez resignation on national TV.
– A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
– NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
– A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
– At a Sotheby‘s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
– Enlargement of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
– 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
Who Were Born On ?
– Davis Cleveland, American actor
– Alexa Gerasimovich, American actress
– Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish prince
– Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
– Prince Felix of Denmark, Danish royalty
– Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal
– Jason and Kristopher Simmons, American identical twin actors
– Ben Bowen, American brain cancer victim (d. 2005)
– Kelsey Smith-Briggs, American murder victim (d. 2005)