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Historical Event(s)
– More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
– The Clementine space probe launches.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
– Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
– Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after having been stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
– Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
– In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
– The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
– This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC-10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
Who Were Born On ?
– Harry Styles, Member of British/Irish boy band One Direction
– Dominic Janes, American actor
– Justin Bieber, Canadian pop star
– Sarah Solovay, American singer-songwriter
– Elmo Magalona, Filipino singer and actor
– Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor
– Kevin Van Fleet, Notorious bird watcher and friend of Bob Saget
– Jessie Flower, American voice actress
– Krystal Jung, American-born Korean singer
– Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan