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Historical Event(s)
– The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów / Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
– The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
– Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; hardest hit is in Tennessee with 29 people killed.
– Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
– King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
– The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
– Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
– Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
– The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
Who Were Born On ?
– Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch royal family
– Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
– Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese imperial family member
– Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canadian craniopagus conjoined twins