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Historical Event(s)
– 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.
– The Federal Court of Australia’s ruling in Roadshow Films v iiNet sets a precedent that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them.
– 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.
– 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.
– The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
– A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
– Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
– A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a “wall of fire” more than 1000 ft high.
– The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation’s worst mining disaster since 1914.
Who Was Born On ?
– Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou