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Historical Event(s)
– More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
– Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
– 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
– The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
– American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in favor of it.
– Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
– Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
– Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
Who Were Born On ?
– BooBoo Stewart, American actor and singer
– Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
– Tom Daley, English diver and Olympian
– Camilla Rosso, English actress
– Jansen Panettiere, American actor
– Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
– Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)
– Jake T. Austin, American actor
– Raheem Sterling, English footballer
– Nat Wolff, American singer and actor