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Historical Event(s)
– American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Rooster in Chinese astrology.
– Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
– 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
– Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
– Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
– Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
– Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
– The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
– Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
Who Were Born On ?
– Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II of Jordan
– Countess Luana of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg
– Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
– Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
– Caylee Anthony, American child murder victim (d. 2008)
– Princess Jalilah bint Ali of Jordan
– Prince Christian of Denmark, Danish royal
– Infanta Leonor of Spain, Spanish royalty
– Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway