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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.
– Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
– Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
– One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
– Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
– 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.
– San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
– Norfolk Southern ends its steam excursion program. This is the last time that Norfolk and Western 611 is under steam.
Who Were Born On ?
– Laura Robson, British tennis player
– Harry Styles, Member of British/Irish boy band One Direction
– Liliana Mumy, American actress
– Miles Heizer, American actor
– Cayden Boyd, American actor
– Krystal Jung, American-born Korean singer
– Connor Price, Canadian actor
– William Melling, English actor
– Emma Lockhart, American actress
– Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer