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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
– At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government’s proposed First Employment Contract law.
– King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
– 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
– The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People’s Republic of China.
– North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
– At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
– Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
– The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture’s worst recorded floods.
– The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
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