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Historical Event(s)
– The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship.
– Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country’s first indigenous president.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Dog in Chinese astrology.
– Members of the Chadian military fail in a coup d'état attempt.
– At least 1 million union members, students, and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government’s proposed First Employment Contract law.
– 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
– The Hezbollah initiate Operation True Promise.
– Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
– A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
– The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
Who Were Born On ?
– Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch royal family
– Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Dutch royal
– Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese imperial family member
– Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canadian craniopagus conjoined twins