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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.
– John Major’s Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
– The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park’s name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
– General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
– The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– Anti-Mafia Judge Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, Italy together with five police officers.
– FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
– NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
– For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.
– Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
Who Were Born On ?
– Jack Wilshere, English footballer
– Emmanuel Frimpong, Ghanaian footballer
– Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
– Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer
– Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
– Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player
– Spencer Breslin, American actor
– Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
– Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
– Jeffrey Schlupp, German footballer