Your birthday deserves more than 'Happy Birthday' on repeat! 🎶 Discover unique songs, fun trivia, and surprising facts! Subscribe now and celebrate like never before! 🎉🎂 (Sponsored)
Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
– The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
– American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
– The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
– Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
– Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
– The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
– Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
– Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
Who Were Born On ?
– Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
– Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
– Carrie Prejean, American beauty pageant contestant
– Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakh model (d. 2008)
– Julianna Guill, American actress
– Jacoby Ford, American football player
– Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer
– Marcelo Estigarribia, Paraguayan footballer
– Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer
– Karim Benzema, French footballer