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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.
– Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
– The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
– A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
– An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London’s underground rail network to a halt.
– Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
– The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
– Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
– Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
– Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
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