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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
– An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
– The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
– AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
– Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
– Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
– Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in Malé.
– The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acre, and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
– The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid’s busy Chamartín Station.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alina Foley, American actress
– Marcus Fiesel, American murder victim (d. 2006)
– Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, New Zealander quadruple amputee
– Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of Crown Prince Paras
– Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
– Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands