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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
– People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines’ first woman president.
– The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
– A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
– Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
– Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
– The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
– Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
– The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.
Who Were Born On ?
– Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress
– Shantelle Malawski, Canadian professional wrestler
– Diego Ângelo, Brazilian footballer
– Zoi Dimoschaki, Indian batsman
– Jonny Craig, Canadian singer and songwriter (Emarosa and Dance Gavin Dance)
– Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor
– Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
– Brian Visser, American footballer
– Mladen Bartulović, Croatian footballer
– Lazaros Christodoulopoulos, Greek footballer