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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Horse in Chinese astrology.
– Marad massacre of eight Hindus near Palakkad in Kerala.
– The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
– F.B.I. agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
– Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
– A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
– The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of The Gambia killing more than 1,000.
– Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
– Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face “serious consequences”.
– The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
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)