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Historical Event(s)
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
– The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service.
– The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
– Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
– Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.
– All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.
– The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1389 ft, at the time becoming the world’s highest residence above ground-level.
– China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
– The 10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing kills 110 and injures 200 more.
– Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
Who Were Born On ?
– Princess Eléonore of Belgium
– Mia Talerico, American child actress
– Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family