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Historical Event(s)
– The Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building is officially opened.
– 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.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
– An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
– A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
– Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
– Derrick Bird goes on a killing spree in Cumbria, killing 13 and injuring 11, see Cumbria shootings.
– 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.
– Mahmoud Abbas speaks at United Nations General Assembly to request that Israel end its policy of building settlements in the West Bank.
– A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing at least 30 passengers.
Who Was Born On ?
– Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou