Are you and your special someone cosmic soulmates? 💫💖 Find out with our free ‘Birthday Compatibility’ report. Based on your birthdays, you can gain insights into your relationship. 🔮✨ Unlock the mystery of your romantic love life today. (Sponsored by MyBirthday.Ninja)
Historical Event(s)
– Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Netherlands.
– The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
– The European Union’s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
– The 1996 Lebanon war ends.
– The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
– The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
– Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
– Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
– In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
Who Were Born On ?
– Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor
– Joel Courtney, American film actor
– Mai Hagiwara, Japanese singer
– Abigail Breslin, American actress
– Dee Dee Davis, American actress
– Ryan Ochoa, American teen actor
– Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
– Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
– Skyler Gisondo, American actor
– Austin Williams, American actor