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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
– A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
– In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
– Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
– Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
– Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
– The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
– Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
– The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
– Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
Who Were Born On ?
– BooBoo Stewart, American actor and singer
– Dominic Janes, American actor
– Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper part of the collective OFWGKTA
– Christina Grimmie, American singer, songwriter, pianist
– Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
– Elmo Magalona, Filipino singer and actor
– David Alvarez, Canadian dancer and actor
– Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina child actress and singer
– Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
– Lola Sanchez, Australian actress