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Historical Event(s)
– Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rat in Chinese astrology.
– A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
– Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
– An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
– In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.
– The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
– China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
– SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
– 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