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Historical Event(s)
– A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1093 mi trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
– A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
– Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world’s first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
– Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
– Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
– Boris Yeltsin’s funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
– The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
– Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
– Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
Who Were Born On ?
– Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco
– Prince Abdullah bin Ali of Jordan
– Prince Moritz of Hesse, son of Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse
– Princess Ariane of the Netherlands
– Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan
– Princess Isabella of Denmark
– James, Viscount Severn, British royal