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Historical Event(s)
– Muslim gunmen open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.
– Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
– Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
– Derrick Bird goes on a killing spree in Cumbria, killing 13 and injuring 11, see Cumbria shootings.
– Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.
– 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
– A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a “wall of fire” more than 1000 ft high.
– The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severly contaminated.
Who Was Born On ?
– Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou