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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
– American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
– Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
– The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world’s first all-sports radio station.
– British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
– Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
– The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
– 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.
– King’s Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city’s busiest underground station, King’s Cross St Pancras.
– History’s worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
Who Were Born On ?
– Naya Rivera, American actress
– Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist
– Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
– Victor Vito, New Zealand rugby player
– Brett Deledio, Australian Rules football player
– Joyce Cheng, Hong Kong musician, writer, actress and performer
– Michelle Keegan, British actress
– Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
– Anton Fink, German footballer
– Sam Bradford, American football player and winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy