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Historical Event(s)
– Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
– Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
– Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
– One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
– Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
– Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
– Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country’s first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
– Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
– A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
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