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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
– Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
– Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
– President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
– A federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
– The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
– Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
– The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
– The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.
– The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
Who Were Born On ?
– Theo Diconu,footballer
– Jackie Evancho, American singer
– Morgan Lily, American actress
– Piper Reese, American child reporter
– Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan
– Frankie Jonas, American actor
– Willow Smith, American actress and singer
– Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
– Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
– Samuel Sevian, American chess player