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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
– Start of the Bosnian war.
– Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
– Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
– An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
– An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
– Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
– War in Abkhazia: During the Siege of Tkvarcheli, a helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli, Abkhazia, is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, 25 of which are children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
– The Archives of Terror are discovered.
Who Were Born On ?
– Logan Lerman, American actor
– Erik Lamela, Argentine footballer
– Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
– Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
– Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player
– Spencer Breslin, American actor
– Michele Camporese, Italian footballer
– Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
– Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
– Islam Dzhabrailov, Russian footballer