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Historical Event(s)
– Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
– In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
– Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people.
– A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
– The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
– U.S. President Bill Clinton’s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
– Centennial Olympic Park bombing: in Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured.
– Former president of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and brutally murdered by the Taliban.
– NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
Who Were Born On ?
– Kishan Shrikanth, Indian film director, actor
– Joel Courtney, American film actor
– Sasha Pieterse, South African/American actress
– Madeline Carroll, American actress
– Dee Dee Davis, American actress
– Dominic Scott Kay, American actor
– Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
– Ella Cruz, Filipina actress
– Sungha Jung, South Korean guitar prodigy
– Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress