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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.
– Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injuries.
– 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers.
– A train collision in Shandong, China, kills 72 people and injures 416 more.
– The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
– Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
– The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
– 56 people are killed and over 200 people are injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.
– Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
Who Were Born On ?
– Princess Eléonore of Belgium
– Mia Talerico, American child actress
– Emma Tallulah Behn, member of the extended Norwegian royal family