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Historical Event(s)
– The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
– A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
– In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 654 Iraqi combatants are also killed.
– The largest hailstone ever recorded falls in Aurora, Nebraska
– Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
– The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
– Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
– Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
– Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
Who Were Born On ?
– Alina Foley, American actress
– Marcus Fiesel, American murder victim (d. 2006)
– Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman, New Zealander quadruple amputee
– Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of Crown Prince Paras
– Lady Louise Windsor, British royal
– Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands