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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Monkey in Chinese astrology.
– Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agree to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that forms InBev, the world’s largest brewer.
– Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
– Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
– The first Indonesian presidential election is held.
– Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
– The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
– In Global governance, Decision o916-d1 adopted as mission statement: 'To create an accepted framework for all humankind, that is self-regulating and which enables every person to achieve their fullest potential in harmony with the world and its place in existence.'
– Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn’s moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
– A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
Who Were Born On ?
– Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
– Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg
– Giuliano Stroe, Romanian weightlifter and bodybuilder
– Xyriel Manabat, Filipino actress