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Historical Event(s)
– A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.
– Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
– A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– 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.
– The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
– California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state’s voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
– A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong.
– Mary MacKillop is canonized (in Rome) and becomes the first saint of Australia.
Who Was Born On ?
– Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou