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Historical Event(s)
– Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– Nigerien rebels attacked the presidential palace in Niamey and replaced President Mamadou Tandja with a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.
– Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
– A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
– Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
– The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.
– In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in 9 civilian deaths when teams of IHH activists on the MV Mavi Marmara attacked them with knives and metal rods and abducted one of the soldiers.
– The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police procedural television series in the United Kingdom, is aired on ITV1.
– The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Who Was Born On ?
– Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou