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Historical Event(s)
– Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 82 passengers and five crew members.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
– Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
– The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
– 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
– NASA launched a $511 million probe to Mars in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.
– El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
– An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashes near Kiev, Ukraine killing 8.
– Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
Who Were Born On ?
– Maja Keuc, Slovenian singer
– Stefano Pettinari, Italian professional footballer
– Andrei Savchenko, Russian professional footballer
– Freddie Highmore, English actor
– Perry Kitchen, American soccer player
– Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
– Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer
– Eoghan Quigg, Northern Irish singer
– Giselle Klein, Canadian sprint car driver
– Miley Cyrus, American actress and singer